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Living with water
Even on the highway
Have you ever seen this?

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Living with water
Even on the highway
Have you ever seen this?

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How cool is this?

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Threat of rain, but also of the sea

The Netherlands is partly under the sea level.
The sea can flood our land.

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The Netherlands of the past





What do you notice?

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The Netherlands without dunes.

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The Netherlands without dunes and dikes

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N.A.P. means
Normaal Amsterdams Peil.
A NAP height of 0 m is approximately equal to the sea level of the North Sea. 
Sea Level
A big part of the Netherlands is below sea level.
You can compare it with holes in a road that are flooded

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Protection against water
Build dikes
  • wider
  • higher
  • stronger
and connecting dikes
But also:
  • Widening rivers and canals
  • Create floodplains

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Mounds

People used to build mounds.

A mound is an artificial hill to have a dry place at high tide.

Sometimes an entire village was built on it.



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What are the consequences for: 
  • people
  • animals
  • nature


Would you survive a flood?

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