I wish they were also responsible for managing the infrastructure of the country I live in. Their roads, pavements, bicycle paths etc are the best in the world by a wide margin
If it wasn't for the major projects and infrastructure done by the Netherlands who knows how much land would be lost to the sea , bravo Nederland and good luck for the future . Greetings from Cyprus I would love to visit one day as my hobby is major engineering .
When you come, don't make the mistake of going to Amsterdam only. Although it's a brilliant city, it very poorly reflects the real dutch lifestyle and it's architecture. There are many other cool and beautiful places to visit. Geniet ervan!
If you like major projects the Delta works (and the scale model they used for tests) is a must. The Afsluitdijk is amazing as well if you realise that one side was once also sea. Flevoland is not much to look at, but it was created and is incredibly flat. It would be your chance to walk on what was once the sea.
The wisest societies are being revealed. And it is often not the present, but the future (and often after they are long gone) that reveals who the best leaders were.
The Netherlands is one of the countries doing the least for climate change mitigation at the moment compared to other European countries. This isn't about being wise. The Netherlands is just good at dealing with certain types of problems problems and completely ignore other problems.
In reaction to comment above: Carbon footprint in comparison with other country's is similar per capita with other European countries. So I don't know what you moan about
It's true that the Netherlands still lags behind most other European countries. I say this as a Dutchman. Our country's politics are all about compromises, about the middle ground..... and that is something the climate crisis cannot be solved with. No pain no gain....
Geert says the deal doesn't look so good now, but the alternative if I understand correctly was that instead of the corn crop being flooded, if they hadn't moved their house and farm would have been flooded.
Very true, and not just their house and farm, but the "Room for the river" plan also protects many more people downstream. Geert is a typical short-term thinker.
I think the deal he mentioned was about the compensation he would get for flooded crops. A rare midsummer flooding, like recently, is probably not within that deal so no compensation for the lost crops. That's why he feels the need to talk with the government about that.
Not really. His concern is that originally, the idea was that a summerflood, taking out the crops would be rare. He now worries that it’s not gonna be that rare. As such moving the farm up the terp, with the crops remaining in the same location, might not work as well as initially anticipated, making him once again dependent on the government. Also his parents could have moved completely and/or given up on farming, like some of the other families did after the buyout. He’s not worried about his life, but about business/livelyhood.
If the project hadn't been executed, the land would have been protected by a higher dike/levee. The project 'room for the river' actually lowered the dikes in some places, to allow the river to expand, instead of causing higher and higher surges downstream. But the farmers have to accept occasional flooding of their lands. In the case of cow farms, that's typically not that much of a concern: they have room for the cows in their barns, typically keep the cows there during winter anyway, so with an occasional summer flood, it's not that much hassle. For crops however, this will cut directly into their livelyhood.
@@Pfooh And if that happens, we should just (partially) compensate them for it. I don't think it is/should be such a big deal as he is making it out to be.
@@airobot4088 Dude you stuck in the 19 century? The Netherlands have been a democracy with an elected government since ~1865. The monarch is just kept in place for cultural and PR reasons, and has zero influence on how the government is run.
@@timmy7201 Your country like all western european countries are slaves to the holy see. vatican city see treaty of rome 1957. see EEA commission 1993 . now……. see European Union. You never had a democracy. it is a plutocracy wake from your slumber and brace for Sunday Law under the guise of climate change
Remarkable how the country that is the most downstream, and even has a huge percentage of the land under sea level, had the least damage. I call that a win!
I noticed one thing the dutchman said that didn't really get translated. which was that at first they looked at the plans as a threat but decided to turn it into an oppertunity since most of their farms were 40 years old they could build newer fully modern farms..
@karl el Though, Dutch is closer to our shared ancestry of western germanic, because the German language was affected by the "High german consonant shift". So you played yourself.
Netherlands: "We're planning decades in advance ... 3, 4 generations" Deutschland: „Wir ham das schon immer so gemacht, wir machen weiter wie bisher" oder auch Armin Laschet: „Weil jetzt so ein Tag ist, ändert man nicht die Politik“
Here's how this would have gone in America: they promise to help you rebuild after you give them your land, then they take the land and say, "who are you?"
The US abuses eminent domain to steal land from its own citizens, Trump used eminent domain to steal land from dozens of American homeowners to make room for the wall he ultimately failed to build.
In germany such "endangered farm land" does get compensated, once the water overfloods the farmland. The compensationis an exchange for the goverment to have access to retention areas and the farmer an secure in come, once he can´t harvest his crops that year.
@@Martinspire The flood plains next to rivers were always meadows where a farmer could let his cattle graze during the summer months. Now farmers consider it to be workable land and grow mais and potatos, it is clearly their risk. Any other use than meadows should be forbidden!
What they call room for the river is called a floodway. A designated area for a river to overflow when there's a flood.. they did this many decades ago in Winnipeg Manitoba in Canada to protect the city
virtually all rivers in the netherlands have those flood plains as well. the trick here is to have these overflow areas working as a presure valve for peak flow to limit the flood level of the river when it crosses a 2000 year old city nearby (where there isn't and can't be a flood plain)
Room for the river is not just creating floodplains. It's a plan that covers (pun) the nation and the future. It would be like the US having a plan to modify the land, funding it for decades to come and carrying out that plan on a national level with federal coordination, knowing it'll probably never really be completed. The Dutch fund their war against flooding like the US funds it's wars.
If you have a 'water problem': Call the Dutch . . . BTW: The Delta Project was meant to defend us against the SEA The recent floods came from the 'mountains'
Only the description states it wrong. They gave Peter Glas the correct title of Delta Program Director/Commissioner. The 'Maaswerken' explained in this video is part of the Delta Program, just like the Delta Project once was. Where the Delta Project defends us against the sea, the Maaswerken make sure the Maas has enough room.
Well English is taught in schools from about 7th or 8th grade all the way through final exams in high schools. At uni it is also a common language for a set of classes. During all that time, I would hope we gain some proficiency at it. :)
@@noahvanderkroft4011 I mean his ancestry starts in Germany and his last name comes from a area in France. Can we just agree that European monarchies are weird
Centuries of realizing 'We are in this together, and we have to cooperate to solve it!' have made the Dutch less egocentric than most others. Because being egocentric backfires within a few years, and than you are alone with your trouble and problems.
No there are more projects and iff Germany and Belgium start working together with the Dutch it can faster. There water comes in one. Iff the build better we don’t have that lot of water
Its not that simple, other lands aren’t that flat, they have other difficult terrain that make moving away and giving the river more space a lot more difficult…. search for a picture of the city Dinant in Belgium (the latest city to have had a flood here). And you will see that they can’t just move away from the river just as easy as in the Netherlands. They face a very rocky and steep cliff at the other side. And these floods we had here in Belgium in the Ardennes were never seen before, you have take this into account too why they weren’t prepared for this.
A 1 in 50 year rain does not mean that the rain event would happen one once in 50 years. It just mean that there is a 1 in 50 chance of the rain event to take place
"This is why I admire Netherlands and the Dutch people I just wish my country of origin the Philippines is like this especially we are a highly disaster prone risk country instead our worst government all just do is to made our lives miserable as we are worst at all levels .?!"
Perhaps, but if they are, it is a very low standard. Could also be that the people that became politicians have changed to the worse. On many levels i consider it a shitshow of sociopaths at the moment in the Netherlands. Still better then USA from what I have seen; but a shitshow.
The Dutch have been a pluralist society for over a 1000 years. They have a word for their style of negotiation; 'Polder-model' which means that all party's involved negotiate for as long as possible until everyone is satisfied with the outcome. Their politicians represent a lot more different party's and aren't concerned with partisan actions. On most levels of the government there isn't much lobbying going on, and if there is, it's frowned upon as a form of corruption. This leaves space for a lot of good hearted, long term thinking politicians who try to win your future vote by being effective at their job
As a Dutch born, raised Citizen I know how the Dutch politics is organised. "Poldermodel " is referring as searching for a middle ground between what different people want and get the idea most people do not have the competence to search for a solution that works for everybody. Agree with you that multiple parties work better then for example the usa. Have the idea that corruption in the Netherlands is not much of a problem because the funds to run for a voted position in the government are coming from the government and is affordable to pay if you have a small amount of fans. Believe the problem in the Netherlands is that more and more, the social infrastructure is crumbling like legal protection, healthcare funding, the government lies, manipulates, withholds important information, breaks laws at a staggering pace, abuses the new privacy laws, breaks human rights on a large scale ; fact, laws, reasoning, reality, empathy, ethics become inconvieniences. Look at the "toeslagenschandaal", uwv wia schandaal, and i know of some others in the making that are much more intense then precious scandals. Get the idea the idea of that most politicians are decent people trying to make a difference in the Netherlands is a delusion. As a small example; Look how Pieter van omtzigt has been treated. I would never vote for the party he was in but get the idea he is a decent human being and critical and that is in the way of the goals of others. The problem in Netherlands is not so much being corrupt, it is mainly that politicions and the goverment are willing to do anything , to get their way with a basis of deception. With anything I mean no matter the consequences, the means are mainly financial and psychological abuse.
The room for the river project is organised by rijkswaterstaat which is a separate entity independent from the government. politicians don't really have a say in this.
The situation in Germany I think was quite different from the Dutch one: rivers like the Ruhr and Ahr are bigger than their Dutch counterparts and are located in larger areas with steeper hills. Making room for such rivers will be much more difficult than for the river shown in this documentary fragment.
The thing is that those exact same rivers eventually end up in the Netherlands. I would argue that making room for the rivers is in fact easier in Germany since Germany isn't as densely populated as the Netherlands.
Ruhr and Ahr both empty into the Rhine which goes through the Netherlands, though admittedly the Ruhr also empties into the Wezer and idk the volume split. Anyhow, the Rhine wasn't even the problem for the netherlands this summer, it was the Meuse and it's tributaries.
The big issue from Germany and Belgium was that they weren't able to warn the population like the Netherlands did with NL Alert. It evacuated a lot of people. On top of that its easier to make a floodplain in the Netherlands if you have nobody living there but whether you need to move homes or excavate is no different. Germany completely underestimated the amount of water that was able to flow there. Had it been the case, it would've had bigger and deeper rivers. But the main issue was that they couldn't warn anybody to evacuate
@@g.z5800 the problem in .de and .be were the hills. All the water gathers in valleys where the villages are. making room like we did can only be done be removing hills or moving entire villages. so the Dutch solution cant be applied there. I dont know what solution can, especially when the water in the valleys start to drag trees, it becomes a devastating current of mass wrecking everything in its path.
The problem is that German and Belgian municipalities built houses very close to the river or even in the floodplain, which acts as a funnel. As of consequence all of these houses where washed away. In Germany and Belgium the river literaly created room. In The Netherlands we created room for the river.
This solution doesn't work everywhere in the world. It works in the Netherlands because the high water season is in the winter, when there aren't any crops growing.
@@sinki19841984 this summerflood was an exception that never happened in about a 100 years. My point is, that you can only use the system of uiterwaarden for farming if they don't flood in the crop season. This system works and is payable in the Netherlands because the uiterwaarden still hold economic value for farming
30 years ago, climate change was not as obvious and the parents did not push aggressively for garuntees for something that now is a real threat. The world we now live in is much changed from 30 years ago. The son is right to question if it now is a win win scenario.
@@abadyr_ And nobody wonders why a farmer in the Netherlands would be able to speak another language, besides Dutch. He doesn't need it for his farming !
We have world leading facilities and learning institutions in water management that have high foreign enrollment precisely because of our expertise. A lot of our engineers work in outside the Netherlands because when choosing between a Dutch Water management MSc and an Indian Water management MSc, both from the University of Utrecht, the Dutchy feels more qualified.
I cannot see these animals (of dairy business) confined to such a small space, with their neck just move in inches, for such a large animals. It is terrible than human jail-cell. In the event of any calamity, they may be the first to die at the same place. Tears of all humanity is not enough to describe their sorrow.
These aren't the original flood planes, these are new, 'extended' floodplanes that where dry land in the past. Please note that the Netherlands is as flat as a pancake, and the river dikes are over 500 years old on most places. The land outside those old dikes has been considered 'dry' for centuries, and giving them back to the river is of course met with some concerns. If you give up all floodplanes/polders in the netherlands, you give up 50% of the country, and over 80% of the populated areas.
Talk about first world problems: the government comes and offers you a deal to help you go higher land, you accept it, floods come and you're protected but you still complain that the deal is not that good. How about the government doesn't care about you, you get flooded every couple of years and after some repeating episodes you decide it's not worth the hassle and go out of business or bankrupt? Better? I think not.
You're right. The Dutch are also master complainers. Even if they made the right choice, they'll find something else to complain about, we know we have a problem 8'D
The thing with most governments is that they don't want to spend let's say 3 billion a year on flood defense despite the costs of inevitable floods which leave deaths, homeless and will cost so much more in the end. preventing it is better than fixing it.
It's rather simple, instead of having dams next to the river you move the dams way back inland in non urban areas. Therefore if the water rises it doesn't rise everywhere including in the cities but instead it flows into the huge basins between the cities so that cities maintain relatively dry feet
funny that they say that the negotiations in the overdiep went well. there was a lot of fighting and the people who were close to politics or even in politics eventually won. and the overdiep played almost no role in the flood in 2021..
It is not a competition who suffered mist in the 2021 floodings, please show some decency. The large project for the Rhine, IJssel and Meuse worked, no problems there. Now the attention will shift to the tributaries of the Meuse, I have no doubt about that. These long term projects will be planned and completed without any political wrangling, no government will cancel them. That is the Dutch model. Cooperation with Belgium and Germany will be close, but don't forget they have a totally different geography.
in other places where the river is not above the ground what if the river bed upstream near its source & few km down hill is raised? The flow of water will be greater and at the same time with greater pressure it will dredge the riverbed on lower lands that tend to get inundated.
Actually, we got that pretty much covered. The main issues in the future for the Netherlands isn't the sea or the rain (anymore), its heat and lack of water or extreme cold. We've got a pretty good system in holding down the water, but you can't do much if the heat makes everything dry up and remove the water reserves. The climate is getting more extreme and that is an issue, like with many other countries.
@Aidan Collins he is right about the drought being the problem. The country is shaped and managed to lose as much water as possible, as fast as possible (otherwise we drown). Our last 2 summers were extremely dry. This meant that the water losing "quality" worked very much against us. There were dried up yellow fields right next to rivers. Irrigation from the rivers was prohibited because we had a risk of getting to a too low water level for river navigation. We'll manage the rising waters by building houses that can float on their moorings.
@@basvanbeers3515 It's actually worse than that. Dikes need water. A dry riverbank causes cracks because the center of every single one of them is made primarily of clay.
Agreed, this summer is just so exceptionally wet here it doesn't really feel like a summer at all. So many flooded fields, and the river water is very high. Wish i could trade that water for your sun radiation :)
That was the Deltaplan. This is the new Deltaprogramma which is only a decade old. Marketing or original naming aren't the governments strong suits apparently.
The problem with this is that a lot of debris and contaminants from flooded area's up river will end up on the land. Even if the lost crops are compensated with money, the ground will be polluted.
Better crops polluted then people and animals dead or a whole farm destroyed. There is no perfect solution. The water has to go somewhere when you dont want to build a monster of a dam. And trust me: the Dutch know exactly when and how to build them.
@@stijnhs Not if it is to recurring. Also the flood could ruin that years crop, even if it were good for the land if your crops drown each year the land is of no use anymore for crops.
@@mikedebruyn true that, however from the farmers I know who have room for the river fields they just use it to grow fresh grass on which the cattle grazes from spring to autumn. The grass still lives very well after a flooding. Then during a dry spell in autumn the farmer will cut the grass to store it in winter. Other storage crops like corn Is placed in fields behind the dams
If the rain was fallen a little bit more to the north east I think we wouldn't have seen this video. They got a lot of luck. And it is a little bit funny that they say we gave the land back to nature, knowing that 26% of the Netherlands is belowing sea level. What are we waiting for to give this back?
No, the rain was so damaging because it fell on hilly terrain, in Germany and in Belgium. Had the rain fallen in the Netherlands, on flat terrain, it would mostly have stayed were it had fallen, without forming strong streams.
Even if it had, the IJssel river also was subjected to the room for the river project. I find it remarkable that the Netherlands, which is the most downstream on the river, had the least damage. I call that a win.
I suspect that the farmer that has stayed, would still expect the government to come to his aid and save his farm from the financial consequences if flooding becomes more common. He might be in for a surprise.
When the Dutch historic town of Valkenburg flooded recently there were no air alarms, no church bells ringing to warn people, nothing. The city lies in a river valley and the centre flooded. So much for good preparations and "planning years ahead". If it had rained for one extra day there would have been massive floodings in a large area and perhaps 50.000 people would have had to evacuate.
How many people died in the Netherlands or Valkenburg compared to people in Germany and Belgium that were caught in the same rains? I think that is a win for Valkenberg!
@@mikedebruyn German river Ahr is much larger than the Geul river that flows through Valkenburg. Geul river rose by about 3 meters, the Ahr river rose 6 meters. Had the Geul been a larger river and had it also risen by 6 meters many houses in Valkenburg would have collapsed and people would have died. As they alas did in Germany.
@@williamdrijver4141 I understand that but 6 meters obviously was not part of the risk assessment for Valkenberg. If that was because of prevention measures on the Dutch side i do not know but what ifs are part of the risk assessment and subsequent measures taken. Where i do hear about widespread and invasive prevention measures on the Dutch side i do not hear them on the German or Belgium side.
There's a big difference between the two. Japan's basin system protects mostly against tsunamis from the Pacific and this Dutch system protects against inflowing water from rivers from central Europe. Both are tailormade to different weather phenomenon's. That being said the Netherlands also has a lot of protection from the sea like the Oosterscheldekering and the Maeslantkering.
@@stijnhs don't forger the Afsluitdijk, we made a sea into a lake and just built new land in the lake so all the displaced families of the last flood had a place to live.
@@DrCatdeJong I hope you're not referring to the flood of 1953, as Flevoland was most certainly not built to give displaced families a place to live. The Afsluitdijk was mainly constructed to prevent flooding. The reclamation of Flevoland afterward provided a lot of space for farmland and residential areas meant to house people from the overcrowded cities of the Randstad.
While the Netherlands are mostly flat, the parts of Belgium, Germany and also Netherlands that flooded are not. Comparing the delta works with what happened in July 2021 is just a ridiculous PR stunt. Delta works in a flat geographical area is like child's play compared to a hilly mountainous region where the floods happened.
child's play? let me think: area with mountains and occasionally a lot of water, build on top of mountains, no more flooding. area below sea level with always a lot of water, no mountains to build on, build the biggest sea defences in the world in the sea for 68 years, without even being finished after that, no more flooding. sure delta works was the easy option.
@@janvanruth3485 finally someone who gets it. in the past people build towns in valleys, next to rivers. because it was easy, provided fertile ground and gave acces to the "highway" system of the rivers. but that means you live next to a river on low ground. but now if you want to keep the people safe. you should "move" those towns up the mountains, higher ground would be safer and you would be able to use the valley for agriculture. but moving all those people and building will be a massive undertaking and will be wildly expensive. (but so are the delta works and all the other dutch flood protection systems)
The municipalities in Belgium and Germany made the mistake to built houses very close to or even in the rivervalleys. These houses act like a funnel for ther river. Of course these houses where washed away and the river created room. In the Netherlands, also in Limburg, we created room for the river. This just underlines the proof of concept and is not a PR stunt.
Looks like Dutch water management failed totally in other areas in the Netherlands. I was somewhat dissapointed, even when I know there is if course no total security. But why does this report now only report about a places in that country where things went well and not where it did not? Feels a bit like Dutch "public relations"-video.
@@hansoosterhof2294 Still, the video totally ignores the floodings and considerabable damage to houses and companies. And the Rhine in Germany also did not cause much problems last month. Of course not, since the level "only" reached winter level, so why focus on that river in current context? But okay, this video is not a scientific analysis.
I live in the area where the floods were and the main reason is bad maintenance of "rijkswatertstaat" (The water authority) and bad planning. Also the aftermath was a failure with people living over two years in trailers. A perfect example of failing governance in The Netherlands. I am also puzzled why "Deutsche Welle" reports from another area after the floods and tells everything is alright. It like there would be a flood at teh elbe river and I would go to the Spree or Mosel and how nice the river dykes are, I call it "Monty Python" Journalism.
A lot of the date from rising water is unavoidable. Stopping all emissions today would still mean centuries before the planet changed its trajectory. A lot of climate mitigation is lost too - in the form of forests and grasslands to sequester CO2. So mitigation on floodplains is very important for survival. So both prevention and mitigation are necessary sadly. :(
Nothing new here. Just a river over flow area. Just in some places these areas were built on (for many reasons) and now its time to move them out of the way and let the river do what it wants.
What is new though, is planning this far ahead. Ok, there have been prior disasters of a smaller scale, but the Germans and Belgians did little to stay safe in the future, the Dutch made sure if it hit again, it would not hit where it hurts most.
The Dutch should be given the task of global water management. That would be humanity playing to its strengths.
I wish they were also responsible for managing the infrastructure of the country I live in. Their roads, pavements, bicycle paths etc are the best in the world by a wide margin
A lot of big water projects all over the world are already managed by dutch companies
Well they all work and run oil rigs for multiple oil companies.
I agree with you
I think the Dutch people are smart enough NOT to take on everyone else's problems too! Lol
If it wasn't for the major projects and infrastructure done by the Netherlands who knows how much land would be lost to the sea , bravo Nederland and good luck for the future .
Greetings from Cyprus I would love to visit one day as my hobby is major engineering .
You're always welcome
When you come, don't make the mistake of going to Amsterdam only. Although it's a brilliant city, it very poorly reflects the real dutch lifestyle and it's architecture. There are many other cool and beautiful places to visit. Geniet ervan!
Thank you for the advice , very much appreciated .
You'll be blown away by how amazing the infrastructure in the NL is. I live in Athens and the two are like night and day :(((((
If you like major projects the Delta works (and the scale model they used for tests) is a must. The Afsluitdijk is amazing as well if you realise that one side was once also sea. Flevoland is not much to look at, but it was created and is incredibly flat. It would be your chance to walk on what was once the sea.
The wisest societies are being revealed. And it is often not the present, but the future (and often after they are long gone) that reveals who the best leaders were.
The Netherlands is one of the countries doing the least for climate change mitigation at the moment compared to other European countries.
This isn't about being wise. The Netherlands is just good at dealing with certain types of problems problems and completely ignore other problems.
In reaction to comment above: Carbon footprint in comparison with other country's is similar per capita with other European countries. So I don't know what you moan about
It's true that the Netherlands still lags behind most other European countries. I say this as a Dutchman. Our country's politics are all about compromises, about the middle ground..... and that is something the climate crisis cannot be solved with. No pain no gain....
@@chigeh bruh you never heard of bicycles in the Netherlands ?!
Geert says the deal doesn't look so good now, but the alternative if I understand correctly was that instead of the corn crop being flooded, if they hadn't moved their house and farm would have been flooded.
Very true, and not just their house and farm, but the "Room for the river" plan also protects many more people downstream. Geert is a typical short-term thinker.
I think the deal he mentioned was about the compensation he would get for flooded crops. A rare midsummer flooding, like recently, is probably not within that deal so no compensation for the lost crops. That's why he feels the need to talk with the government about that.
Not really. His concern is that originally, the idea was that a summerflood, taking out the crops would be rare. He now worries that it’s not gonna be that rare. As such moving the farm up the terp, with the crops remaining in the same location, might not work as well as initially anticipated, making him once again dependent on the government. Also his parents could have moved completely and/or given up on farming, like some of the other families did after the buyout. He’s not worried about his life, but about business/livelyhood.
If the project hadn't been executed, the land would have been protected by a higher dike/levee. The project 'room for the river' actually lowered the dikes in some places, to allow the river to expand, instead of causing higher and higher surges downstream. But the farmers have to accept occasional flooding of their lands. In the case of cow farms, that's typically not that much of a concern: they have room for the cows in their barns, typically keep the cows there during winter anyway, so with an occasional summer flood, it's not that much hassle. For crops however, this will cut directly into their livelyhood.
@@Pfooh And if that happens, we should just (partially) compensate them for it. I don't think it is/should be such a big deal as he is making it out to be.
It's much easier when you trust the government.
Are you in Africa by any chance?
@@Slottpax8698 Worse American Home of the brave land of the free only when your debt free and fully own your house and car and body
what goverment the netherlands is a monarchy.
@@airobot4088 Dude you stuck in the 19 century? The Netherlands have been a democracy with an elected government since ~1865.
The monarch is just kept in place for cultural and PR reasons, and has zero influence on how the government is run.
@@timmy7201 Your country
like all western european countries
are slaves to the holy see. vatican city
see treaty of rome 1957. see EEA commission 1993 . now……. see European Union. You never had a democracy. it is a plutocracy
wake from your slumber
and brace for Sunday Law
under the guise of climate change
Remarkable how the country that is the most downstream, and even has a huge percentage of the land under sea level, had the least damage. I call that a win!
I noticed one thing the dutchman said that didn't really get translated. which was that at first they looked at the plans as a threat but decided to turn it into an oppertunity since most of their farms were 40 years old they could build newer fully modern farms..
I have to admit I didn’t expect to hear the sentence “win, win situation” being spoken in Dutch.
@karl el I've been told we sound like drunk Englishmen trying to speak German, I have to say...... Quite spot on
@karl el Dutch is half English and half German with sore throat
@karl el german is angry dutch))))
What an idiotic comment.
@karl el Though, Dutch is closer to our shared ancestry of western germanic, because the German language was affected by the "High german consonant shift". So you played yourself.
4:14 Damn that's a good toss!
Legend says that his toss of a newborn calf is even better
my dad did this as well.
Bringing back the legend of 'The Flying Dutchman' to a new level.
@@dutchman7623 🙄😂😂😂
Heartbreak if mother sees.
We could all learn from the Dutch.
Yes, like not bragging about our countries every now and then
@@maryam4680 what did u say about our greatest country of the world? ;)
@@Volluta good one 👍🏻😂😂
I love the Netherlands and I always feel jealous about all the things they take for granted
I am virgen
@@juanpedro4083 good for you
As a dutch person I feel proud when I watch this 👌🏻
Hallo, does it flood or snow much in the Netherlands?
Netherlands: "We're planning decades in advance ... 3, 4 generations"
Deutschland: „Wir ham das schon immer so gemacht, wir machen weiter wie bisher" oder auch
Armin Laschet: „Weil jetzt so ein Tag ist, ändert man nicht die Politik“
Only down there.
Up here on the Elbe in HH, we remember our last big flood . .
Nie wieder CDU!!
To be fair, we don't plan decades ahead in general, we only do so in watermanagement.
Ein Niederländer sagt das vielleicht sogar auf Niederländisch
Here's how this would have gone in America: they promise to help you rebuild after you give them your land, then they take the land and say, "who are you?"
just like the british did to native american Indians.
The US abuses eminent domain to steal land from its own citizens, Trump used eminent domain to steal land from dozens of American homeowners to make room for the wall he ultimately failed to build.
they need the money to kill inocents in other countries and stole their petrol
No, they'd build a chemical plant right next to the river and it would pollute the whole farm.
@@ManOfSteel1 revolutionary war also happen because British don't want give a new settlement in native territory
Good to see positive thinking farmers.
In germany such "endangered farm land" does get compensated, once the water overfloods the farmland. The compensationis an exchange for the goverment to have access to retention areas and the farmer an secure in come, once he can´t harvest his crops that year.
But why would you let water get there in the first place, it costs your government a lot of money every time
@@mcfireballs3491 Do you suppose local governments appoint wizards to wish away the water?
@@mcfireballs3491 There are choices to be made, flooding farm land or flooding city center Dordrecht downstream.
The problem isn't just the money, its also the food itself that gets to waste and the farmer needs to get it from somewhere else instead.
@@Martinspire The flood plains next to rivers were always meadows where a farmer could let his cattle graze during the summer months. Now farmers consider it to be workable land and grow mais and potatos, it is clearly their risk.
Any other use than meadows should be forbidden!
In front of nature, being humble.
What they call room for the river is called a floodway. A designated area for a river to overflow when there's a flood.. they did this many decades ago in Winnipeg Manitoba in Canada to protect the city
Each country has its own schemes...some just prevent use of the land.
most areas on the planet, with rivers have some kinds of designated flood planes.
The idea isn't new, but often it lacks just administration.
virtually all rivers in the netherlands have those flood plains as well. the trick here is to have these overflow areas working as a presure valve for peak flow to limit the flood level of the river when it crosses a 2000 year old city nearby (where there isn't and can't be a flood plain)
Room for the river is not just creating floodplains. It's a plan that covers (pun) the nation and the future. It would be like the US having a plan to modify the land, funding it for decades to come and carrying out that plan on a national level with federal coordination, knowing it'll probably never really be completed. The Dutch fund their war against flooding like the US funds it's wars.
@@markknoop6283 : Ik weet het 🙂
If you have a 'water problem': Call the Dutch . . .
BTW:
The Delta Project was meant to defend us against the SEA
The recent floods came from the 'mountains'
Only the description states it wrong. They gave Peter Glas the correct title of Delta Program Director/Commissioner. The 'Maaswerken' explained in this video is part of the Delta Program, just like the Delta Project once was. Where the Delta Project defends us against the sea, the Maaswerken make sure the Maas has enough room.
The Dutch are the nr1 masters in dealing with water.
We have to, because otherwise we would loose half of our country.
say it with me one more time: "while god may have made the world, the Dutch made the Netherlands."
It's amazing most speak English and really well. Am impressed!
Well thanks,
Even if your first name is pretty clear hint of Dutch ancestry ; )
Well English is taught in schools from about 7th or 8th grade all the way through final exams in high schools. At uni it is also a common language for a set of classes.
During all that time, I would hope we gain some proficiency at it. :)
Netherlands - putting the nail in the coffin of the so-called "German efficiency".
Their king is a German.
@@dpt6849 He is not
@@noahvanderkroft4011 50%
@@noahvanderkroft4011 I mean his ancestry starts in Germany and his last name comes from a area in France. Can we just agree that European monarchies are weird
@@dpt6849 kinda. He has a Dutch mom and a German Father, but according to that logic, the Romanov family was also German.
dutch are probably the smartest people people on this earth
When the right dutch poeple are in the right places we make history.
Please don't look at our government donkeys please
Centuries of realizing 'We are in this together, and we have to cooperate to solve it!' have made the Dutch less egocentric than most others. Because being egocentric backfires within a few years, and than you are alone with your trouble and problems.
I fear for the future of humanity should that be the case.
Sure, there are clever individuals, but the general populace... smh
Yes, they are smart, hard working, innovative and adventurous. But the government.. they are just any government in any other countries.
The river will definitely be needing more space in the future.
No there are more projects and iff Germany and Belgium start working together with the Dutch it can faster. There water comes in one. Iff the build better we don’t have that lot of water
Always give room to rivers, because even every spring we have risk of getting too much melted snow as far as Austria
Very peaceful land of smart genius people.
This is the solution! Every water spacialist will tell you that but nobody wants invest in long term projects.
I am virgen
@@juanpedro4083 I was not expecting that comment when I opened the reply section.
The Dutch has terrific flood control for water coming from the sea, but it has not the same level of protection against flood caused by rains.
De laatste jaren een stuk veiliger en beter beschermd geworden, in vergelijking met onze buren ,en de rest van de wereld!👍
1:45 The way Obi Wan taught us. Approach your problems from the High Ground.
The Dutch are smart people!!
Tank you
You welcome! I'm an Ethiopian American and love the Dutch football ⚽️
I am virgen
@@fantastic1231 hahah i am Ethiopian Dutch bro
Only a few are smart
Needs global attention
The world should imitate Dutch🙌
Its not that simple, other lands aren’t that flat, they have other difficult terrain that make moving away and giving the river more space a lot more difficult…. search for a picture of the city Dinant in Belgium (the latest city to have had a flood here). And you will see that they can’t just move away from the river just as easy as in the Netherlands. They face a very rocky and steep cliff at the other side. And these floods we had here in Belgium in the Ardennes were never seen before, you have take this into account too why they weren’t prepared for this.
At 1:35 the text says file. But that is no file, there's not even a road
A 1 in 50 year rain does not mean that the rain event would happen one once in 50 years. It just mean that there is a 1 in 50 chance of the rain event to take place
The gov in my country loves to build in flood plains.
Same here
@@kumarayush7748 isn't that
called job-creation ?
Dutch need to teach this to Germans.
Sure, they can start by teaching us how to get rid of all the mountains around the river so we have enough space for flood plains.
Bruh, The Netherlands is flat unlike the parts that flood in Germany
@@appleslover you do know that the same flood was also in the netherlands
@@Lunavii_Cellest it wasn't nearly as bad as it was in Germany and Belgium because our land is flat.
@@Lunavii_Cellest but also in a region which is living on hills.
Netherlands are role models...
"This is why I admire Netherlands and the Dutch people I just wish my country of origin the Philippines is like this especially we are a highly disaster prone risk country instead our worst government all just do is to made our lives miserable as we are worst at all levels .?!"
4:15 Don't worry about future of the child if he throws it a little higher into the spinning fan.
I shouldn't laugh about this... I really shouldn't....
the rivers will never get to that boy for sure
Yes i thought the same, it has happened before
Other country depleted water resources.
Netherlands: rising water level
Dutch politicians seem more genuine than our politicians in the US
Perhaps, but if they are, it is a very low standard. Could also be that the people that became politicians have changed to the worse. On many levels i consider it a shitshow of sociopaths at the moment in the Netherlands. Still better then USA from what I have seen; but a shitshow.
The Dutch have been a pluralist society for over a 1000 years. They have a word for their style of negotiation; 'Polder-model' which means that all party's involved negotiate for as long as possible until everyone is satisfied with the outcome.
Their politicians represent a lot more different party's and aren't concerned with partisan actions. On most levels of the government there isn't much lobbying going on, and if there is, it's frowned upon as a form of corruption.
This leaves space for a lot of good hearted, long term thinking politicians who try to win your future vote by being effective at their job
As a Dutch born, raised Citizen I know how the Dutch politics is organised. "Poldermodel " is referring as searching for a middle ground between what different people want and get the idea most people do not have the competence to search for a solution that works for everybody.
Agree with you that multiple parties work better then for example the usa.
Have the idea that corruption in the Netherlands is not much of a problem because the funds to run for a voted position in the government are coming from the government and is affordable to pay if you have a small amount of fans.
Believe the problem in the Netherlands is that more and more, the social infrastructure is crumbling like legal protection, healthcare funding, the government lies, manipulates, withholds important information, breaks laws at a staggering pace, abuses the new privacy laws, breaks human rights on a large scale ; fact, laws, reasoning, reality, empathy, ethics become inconvieniences.
Look at the "toeslagenschandaal", uwv wia schandaal, and i know of some others in the making that are much more intense then precious scandals.
Get the idea the idea of that most politicians are decent people trying to make a difference in the Netherlands is a delusion. As a small example; Look how Pieter van omtzigt has been treated. I would never vote for the party he was in but get the idea he is a decent human being and critical and that is in the way of the goals of others.
The problem in Netherlands is not so much being corrupt, it is mainly that politicions and the goverment are willing to do anything , to get their way with a basis of deception. With anything I mean no matter the consequences, the means are mainly financial and psychological abuse.
The room for the river project is organised by rijkswaterstaat which is a separate entity independent from the government. politicians don't really have a say in this.
The situation in Germany I think was quite different from the Dutch one: rivers like the Ruhr and Ahr are bigger than their Dutch counterparts and are located in larger areas with steeper hills. Making room for such rivers will be much more difficult than for the river shown in this documentary fragment.
The thing is that those exact same rivers eventually end up in the Netherlands. I would argue that making room for the rivers is in fact easier in Germany since Germany isn't as densely populated as the Netherlands.
Ruhr and Ahr both empty into the Rhine which goes through the Netherlands, though admittedly the Ruhr also empties into the Wezer and idk the volume split.
Anyhow, the Rhine wasn't even the problem for the netherlands this summer, it was the Meuse and it's tributaries.
The big issue from Germany and Belgium was that they weren't able to warn the population like the Netherlands did with NL Alert. It evacuated a lot of people. On top of that its easier to make a floodplain in the Netherlands if you have nobody living there but whether you need to move homes or excavate is no different. Germany completely underestimated the amount of water that was able to flow there. Had it been the case, it would've had bigger and deeper rivers. But the main issue was that they couldn't warn anybody to evacuate
@@g.z5800 the problem in .de and .be were the hills. All the water gathers in valleys where the villages are. making room like we did can only be done be removing hills or moving entire villages. so the Dutch solution cant be applied there.
I dont know what solution can, especially when the water in the valleys start to drag trees, it becomes a devastating current of mass wrecking everything in its path.
The problem is that German and Belgian municipalities built houses very close to the river or even in the floodplain, which acts as a funnel. As of consequence all of these houses where washed away. In Germany and Belgium the river literaly created room. In The Netherlands we created room for the river.
This solution doesn't work everywhere in the world. It works in the Netherlands because the high water season is in the winter, when there aren't any crops growing.
What? Are you deaf? They even call it a summer flood. This year they had one, climate chance ups that chance, that's the whole problem.
@@sinki19841984 this summerflood was an exception that never happened in about a 100 years. My point is, that you can only use the system of uiterwaarden for farming if they don't flood in the crop season. This system works and is payable in the Netherlands because the uiterwaarden still hold economic value for farming
@@pimcramer2569 this isn't the only flood protection the Dutch have and have other ways to mitigate the damage.
Great initiative indeed!
Nice landscape watching from Nagaland
I had to google where Nagaland is located, exotic location in such an immense country!
Without Googling it, Naga is Indian for snake right?
@@wp12mv You are right! Cheers!
The parents seem much smarter
@@cosmo_mosy A single second is enough. He is not saying they are, but they *seem*
@@benghazi4216 The mother just speaks English more fluently, and the father was dubbed. The son's accent does not mean he is less intelligent.
30 years ago, climate change was not as obvious and the parents did not push aggressively for garuntees for something that now is a real threat.
The world we now live in is much changed from 30 years ago. The son is right to question if it now is a win win scenario.
@@abadyr_ Accent? Is that possible to discern in one second?
It's the overall (no pun intended) picture.
@@abadyr_ And nobody wonders why a farmer in the Netherlands would be able to speak another language, besides Dutch. He doesn't need it for his farming !
Yes The Netherlands🇳🇱 is a Leader in River Engineering India🇮🇳 should also take Dutch consultancy for it's River management
We can all learn from the Dutch from their clever water management . 🌎🌸
We have world leading facilities and learning institutions in water management that have high foreign enrollment precisely because of our expertise. A lot of our engineers work in outside the Netherlands because when choosing between a Dutch Water management MSc and an Indian Water management MSc, both from the University of Utrecht, the Dutchy feels more qualified.
"Plan decades ahead"
Me: "What was I supposed to do yesterday"
It took two years for land acquisition.
Imagine if it was chinese govt instead of Dutch....
Dangers are lurking in where no body is paying attention to
I cannot see these animals (of dairy business) confined to such a small space, with their neck just move in inches, for such a large animals. It is terrible than human jail-cell. In the event of any calamity, they may be the first to die at the same place. Tears of all humanity is not enough to describe their sorrow.
What a concept, not building on a flood plane.
That would be like build a town on the foot of a volcano
Some Italian Town " haha nobody ina their righte mind woulde do tha.... oh no, dios mio..."
These aren't the original flood planes, these are new, 'extended' floodplanes that where dry land in the past. Please note that the Netherlands is as flat as a pancake, and the river dikes are over 500 years old on most places. The land outside those old dikes has been considered 'dry' for centuries, and giving them back to the river is of course met with some concerns. If you give up all floodplanes/polders in the netherlands, you give up 50% of the country, and over 80% of the populated areas.
Talk about first world problems: the government comes and offers you a deal to help you go higher land, you accept it, floods come and you're protected but you still complain that the deal is not that good.
How about the government doesn't care about you, you get flooded every couple of years and after some repeating episodes you decide it's not worth the hassle and go out of business or bankrupt? Better? I think not.
You're right. The Dutch are also master complainers. Even if they made the right choice, they'll find something else to complain about, we know we have a problem 8'D
The thing with most governments is that they don't want to spend let's say 3 billion a year on flood defense despite the costs of inevitable floods which leave deaths, homeless and will cost so much more in the end. preventing it is better than fixing it.
A whole video with faces of people, but didn't explain how the flood management system actually works?
They give more 'room for the river', so in case of a flood, the river doesn't flood populated areas, but only uninhabited areas
It's rather simple, instead of having dams next to the river you move the dams way back inland in non urban areas. Therefore if the water rises it doesn't rise everywhere including in the cities but instead it flows into the huge basins between the cities so that cities maintain relatively dry feet
funny that they say that the negotiations in the overdiep went well. there was a lot of fighting and the people who were close to politics or even in politics eventually won. and the overdiep played almost no role in the flood in 2021..
It is not a competition who suffered mist in the 2021 floodings, please show some decency. The large project for the Rhine, IJssel and Meuse worked, no problems there. Now the attention will shift to the tributaries of the Meuse, I have no doubt about that. These long term projects will be planned and completed without any political wrangling, no government will cancel them. That is the Dutch model. Cooperation with Belgium and Germany will be close, but don't forget they have a totally different geography.
in other places where the river is not above the ground what if the river bed upstream near its source & few km down hill is raised? The flow of water will be greater and at the same time with greater pressure it will dredge the riverbed on lower lands that tend to get inundated.
Never mind the rivers, If the sea levels rise as predicted down the line Holland is in big trouble
holland is but the rest of the netherlands not so much
Perhaps you don't want to forget about Zeeland, Friesland and Groningen. Holland is just 2 provinces - North and South. :)
Actually, we got that pretty much covered. The main issues in the future for the Netherlands isn't the sea or the rain (anymore), its heat and lack of water or extreme cold. We've got a pretty good system in holding down the water, but you can't do much if the heat makes everything dry up and remove the water reserves. The climate is getting more extreme and that is an issue, like with many other countries.
@Aidan Collins he is right about the drought being the problem. The country is shaped and managed to lose as much water as possible, as fast as possible (otherwise we drown). Our last 2 summers were extremely dry. This meant that the water losing "quality" worked very much against us. There were dried up yellow fields right next to rivers. Irrigation from the rivers was prohibited because we had a risk of getting to a too low water level for river navigation. We'll manage the rising waters by building houses that can float on their moorings.
@@basvanbeers3515 It's actually worse than that. Dikes need water. A dry riverbank causes cracks because the center of every single one of them is made primarily of clay.
If only you could distribute some water to North America's west coast.
Agreed, this summer is just so exceptionally wet here it doesn't really feel like a summer at all. So many flooded fields, and the river water is very high. Wish i could trade that water for your sun radiation :)
Pipeline 😉
Great, but not in mountain area
yeah i doubt this will work under water.
I do not know what mountains are. We don't have them in the Netherlands :P
2:52 The Delta Program wasn't started a decade ago, it was started after the floods of 1953.
That was the Deltaplan. This is the new Deltaprogramma which is only a decade old. Marketing or original naming aren't the governments strong suits apparently.
@@Crewmember2 Thanks for clarifying.
This is hilarious considering after a month of this post, another video about how Netherlands is flooding was posted
I have the high ground Anakin
if its a girl use both hands padawan...
Peter Glas looks like Dwight Schrute
Ah- the clever Dutch! Such forward thinking........
for old people they speak really well English
The Dutch are the best non-native English speakers in the world
@@Brozius2512 I know as I am Dutch myself
@@sheep6938 Ah ok.
Look, a country that’s thinks forward!
Bihar,assam,west bengal and Bangladesh should learn from this
The problem with this is that a lot of debris and contaminants from flooded area's up river will end up on the land. Even if the lost crops are compensated with money, the ground will be polluted.
Better crops polluted then people and animals dead or a whole farm destroyed.
There is no perfect solution. The water has to go somewhere when you dont want to build a monster of a dam.
And trust me: the Dutch know exactly when and how to build them.
Sure, there are pollutants but also plenty of fresh new minerals for the ground to pick up. Those out way the pollution
@@stijnhs Not if it is to recurring. Also the flood could ruin that years crop, even if it were good for the land if your crops drown each year the land is of no use anymore for crops.
@@mikedebruyn true that, however from the farmers I know who have room for the river fields they just use it to grow fresh grass on which the cattle grazes from spring to autumn. The grass still lives very well after a flooding. Then during a dry spell in autumn the farmer will cut the grass to store it in winter. Other storage crops like corn Is placed in fields behind the dams
@@stijnhs Yes but that is not the same here, at 3:50 they are talking about corn and the field they are standing in front of contains corn as well.
Beyond the environment, it seems to be about the " individual " beyond anything and then the environment
I feel you, but at least they're actually doing SOMETHING.
If only the Nile will overflow too but it's drying out
the monster that is coming is too big to hold....
Our government is doing nothing to protect Assam and Bihar in India.
If the rain was fallen a little bit more to the north east I think we wouldn't have seen this video. They got a lot of luck. And it is a little bit funny that they say we gave the land back to nature, knowing that 26% of the Netherlands is belowing sea level. What are we waiting for to give this back?
No, the rain was so damaging because it fell on hilly terrain, in Germany and in Belgium.
Had the rain fallen in the Netherlands, on flat terrain, it would mostly have stayed were it had fallen, without forming strong streams.
Even if it had, the IJssel river also was subjected to the room for the river project. I find it remarkable that the Netherlands, which is the most downstream on the river, had the least damage. I call that a win.
Being down stream there are only so many things a tiny country can do. If DW feels bad for that dutch farmer, Germany is much bigger :P
Why not just build the dike higher all along all the flooding rivers?
Concrete is cheap. Couple meters of wall and it's good to go until 2100.
It's not cheaper and it will in the future higher than the alps!🤣😂
I suspect that the farmer that has stayed, would still expect the government to come to his aid and save his farm from the financial consequences if flooding becomes more common. He might be in for a surprise.
typical wants his cake and to eat it to
He would also get help from the government, yes
4:14
Groote vader, groote haart!
When the Dutch historic town of Valkenburg flooded recently there were no air alarms, no church bells ringing to warn people, nothing. The city lies in a river valley and the centre flooded. So much for good preparations and "planning years ahead". If it had rained for one extra day there would have been massive floodings in a large area and perhaps 50.000 people would have had to evacuate.
How many people died in the Netherlands or Valkenburg compared to people in Germany and Belgium that were caught in the same rains? I think that is a win for Valkenberg!
@@mikedebruyn German river Ahr is much larger than the Geul river that flows through Valkenburg. Geul river rose by about 3 meters, the Ahr river rose 6 meters. Had the Geul been a larger river and had it also risen by 6 meters many houses in Valkenburg would have collapsed and people would have died. As they alas did in Germany.
@@williamdrijver4141 I understand that but 6 meters obviously was not part of the risk assessment for Valkenberg. If that was because of prevention measures on the Dutch side i do not know but what ifs are part of the risk assessment and subsequent measures taken. Where i do hear about widespread and invasive prevention measures on the Dutch side i do not hear them on the German or Belgium side.
So what is the plan actually ??🤔🤔
Just give it up! The nature will win anyway!
why give up now when gov will pay you for it later?
@@Daniel-gs9eh sooner or later, most of the country will gone...
@@ViralAssassinVines if they had your attitude maybe lol
This was de farm
go check Tokyo flood protection
There's a big difference between the two. Japan's basin system protects mostly against tsunamis from the Pacific and this Dutch system protects against inflowing water from rivers from central Europe. Both are tailormade to different weather phenomenon's. That being said the Netherlands also has a lot of protection from the sea like the Oosterscheldekering and the Maeslantkering.
@@stijnhs don't forger the Afsluitdijk, we made a sea into a lake and just built new land in the lake so all the displaced families of the last flood had a place to live.
@@DrCatdeJong I hope you're not referring to the flood of 1953, as Flevoland was most certainly not built to give displaced families a place to live. The Afsluitdijk was mainly constructed to prevent flooding. The reclamation of Flevoland afterward provided a lot of space for farmland and residential areas meant to house people from the overcrowded cities of the Randstad.
@@Arjonko i didn't mean to say that it was built just for them, i was just keeping it short
Govn that thinks about public
Well thats rare nowadays😐
The home of Ajax and Gogh.
Doesn't understand the "once in 50 years"...
so basically the dutch are a nation of minecrafters
Great video as always, please consider Subtitling foreign languages instead of dubbing. It's sounds awful and is rather annoying.
Although sea water high couldn't longer circulate,but accept to prevent better built idea.
Since all Dutch rivers come from Belgium and Germany, you can guess who's to blame for any damage flooding the Dutch receive.
Maas river originates in France (not sure what percentage of the river length is on French soil)
@@williamdrijver4141 Ha ha funny, i guess you missed the part where i said ''come from'' as in rtight before entering the Netherlands.
doesn't explain how or maybe I missed it
While the Netherlands are mostly flat, the parts of Belgium, Germany and also Netherlands that flooded are not.
Comparing the delta works with what happened in July 2021 is just a ridiculous PR stunt.
Delta works in a flat geographical area is like child's play compared to a hilly mountainous region where the floods happened.
child's play?
let me think:
area with mountains and occasionally a lot of water, build on top of mountains, no more flooding.
area below sea level with always a lot of water, no mountains to build on, build the biggest sea defences in the world in the sea for 68 years, without even being finished after that, no more flooding.
sure delta works was the easy option.
@@janvanruth3485 finally someone who gets it.
in the past people build towns in valleys, next to rivers. because it was easy, provided fertile ground and gave acces to the "highway" system of the rivers. but that means you live next to a river on low ground.
but now if you want to keep the people safe. you should "move" those towns up the mountains, higher ground would be safer and you would be able to use the valley for agriculture. but moving all those people and building will be a massive undertaking and will be wildly expensive. (but so are the delta works and all the other dutch flood protection systems)
The municipalities in Belgium and Germany made the mistake to built houses very close to or even in the rivervalleys. These houses act like a funnel for ther river. Of course these houses where washed away and the river created room. In the Netherlands, also in Limburg, we created room for the river. This just underlines the proof of concept and is not a PR stunt.
@@casperklerk5054 niet zwetsen.
er is een groot verschil tussen de ardennen/eifel en limburg.
AS IT UNDERGROUND.
MYTHOLOGY OF GENERAL PEOPLES.
Looks like Dutch water management failed totally in other areas in the Netherlands. I was somewhat dissapointed, even when I know there is if course no total security. But why does this report now only report about a places in that country where things went well and not where it did not? Feels a bit like Dutch "public relations"-video.
"failed totally" - yeah absolutely, how can this total failure be explained to the families of all those zero deceased people?!
It did not fail, this is a never ending project an you constant adapt.
@@hansoosterhof2294 Still, the video totally ignores the floodings and considerabable damage to houses and companies. And the Rhine in Germany also did not cause much problems last month. Of course not, since the level "only" reached winter level, so why focus on that river in current context? But okay, this video is not a scientific analysis.
I live in the area where the floods were and the main reason is bad maintenance of "rijkswatertstaat" (The water authority) and bad planning. Also the aftermath was a failure with people living over two years in trailers. A perfect example of failing governance in The Netherlands. I am also puzzled why "Deutsche Welle" reports from another area after the floods and tells everything is alright. It like there would be a flood at teh elbe river and I would go to the Spree or Mosel and how nice the river dykes are, I call it "Monty Python" Journalism.
Where I'm from..farmers live and work on the river banks..and every year they get compensation for flooding..talk about B.S...here..
Wish thoughts were put in to not cause global warming or at least arrest it along with these measures. Great reporting dw
A lot of the date from rising water is unavoidable. Stopping all emissions today would still mean centuries before the planet changed its trajectory. A lot of climate mitigation is lost too - in the form of forests and grasslands to sequester CO2. So mitigation on floodplains is very important for survival. So both prevention and mitigation are necessary sadly. :(
Water❤
Nothing new here. Just a river over flow area. Just in some places these areas were built on (for many reasons) and now its time to move them out of the way and let the river do what it wants.
What is new though, is planning this far ahead. Ok, there have been prior disasters of a smaller scale, but the Germans and Belgians did little to stay safe in the future, the Dutch made sure if it hit again, it would not hit where it hurts most.
dutch are so cool