3.6 The rivers knocking on the back door

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Water

The rivers in the Netherlands

Leerdoelen

• You know what the three-step strategy entails.
• You understand why we need to give (back) more space to rivers and why long-term prevention of larger peak discharges is better than short-term emergency responses.
• You can make use of the possibilities of EduGIS.

Dyke construction

The Netherlands has a long history with dyke construction.

The first 'governments' were illegitimate water boards.

Floods 1953

Parts of Zealand flooded due to a storm at sea. 

At first the danger was from the sea, after a while the danger came from the rivers.

Three-step strategy

Hold                        Store                        Discharge

Today

The government is using the project: Room for the river. 

This is to give the river more room to make it less dangerous.

Also, the Dutch landscape is being designed to fit in a watery landscape. More retention areas and designing a city to adapt to the water -> a floating city?

Working

Make box 3 about three-step strategy

Leerdoelen

• You know what the three-step strategy entails.
• You understand why we need to give (back) more space to rivers and why long-term prevention of larger peak discharges is better than short-term emergency responses.
• You can make use of the possibilities of EduGIS.

Can the Netherlands still flood?

Homework

Make the assignments 1, 2, 3 and 4 from 3.6