Dealing with water in the Netherlands

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What was the benefit from living close to a river?

To transport goods, farmers can grow there crops and fishmen can co fishing very easy.

What was the disadvantage of living close to water?

Your house can get flooded easily.

What is the solution for flooding?

Building dykes and dwelling mounds.
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Why were the water authorities formed?

So people can watch the dykes and make them stronger if need, do the land doesn't flooded.

How many water authorities where there in 1850?

3,500

How did they prevent the land from flooding?

Straightening the rivers, higher the dykes.

How many people live close to the Rhine?

250,000

Why did Limburg flooded?

They didn't had dykes to protect there land.

Why will the discharge of the Rhine change?

Due to climate change.

When did KNMI predict that the discharge could be 27% higher than in 1990?

2100

For what 2 reasons is there a change that the Netherlands will flood one day?

Because all the glaciers in the Alps are melting, and there will be a heavier rainfall.

What is the room for the rivers project?

A set of projects that has created extra space for the rivers.

What are 3 examples of making more space for the rivers?

1. Lowering the floodplains
2. Moving the summer dykes
3. Lowering the summerbed

What did they do to the Noordwaard with the project make room for the rivers?

They made a kind of a extra canal for when the water in the river was to high the water can go in that canal.

Why does a flood not always ocour from a river or a sea?

It also can happened through heavy rainfall.

How is a flood through heavy rainfall called?

Pluvial flooding

What is the plan of the Netherlands to deal with this heavy rainfall?

The water is discharged into the sewers and later into rivers.

How do Bangladeshis deal with floods?

Adapting their houses, for example putting them higher up.

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