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War on water calls for ingenuity
mc-310110.jpg Without dykes and barriers, the Netherlands would ... lost their homes and entire plots of land disappeared. Water would break the Dutch dykes again ... stands on the dyke which separates the beach and one of the oldest shopping streets in the country ...
Zeeland '53
-cold waters kept rising. Normally the dykes kept the raging North Sea at bay, but this time they proved too ... heard what was happening was when a doctor woke them at 4am and warned the dykes had given way. "Nobody realised at that time what would happen, even if the dykes were broken," says Geluk. At first ...
Celebrating insects at the Pestival
does the land's vulnerability. For centuries the country has depended on high set walls called dykes ... insects pestival) (Charles Darwin, dykes, Earthbeat, ecoduct, envirominute, flooding, The Beagle ...
Paul van Vliet belicht jublieum in voorstelling
liedjes lukten beter. Hij maakte ook een LP 'Truth behind the dykes' en die is in mijn bezit. Van Vliet ...
Dutch floods captured on film 56 years on
, the southwestern dykes separating the Netherlands from the North Sea failed to keep out severe spring tide flooding ... dykes separating the Netherlands from the North Sea failed to keep out severe spring tide flooding ... a submerged dyke whose barely protruding top had provided flood survivors with the only solid ground for miles ...
Blue energy: a new 'green' power source
in Western Europe, it was created by building the Afsluitdijk, a dyke closing off a vast expanse of water ... the Afsluitdijk ('enclosing dyke') lies the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, home to the labs of Wetsus, the Centre ...
Dutch sea defences: time to act is now
, sluices, locks and dykes to protect the low-lying regions in the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt estuaries ... and the frequency of storm surges and other extreme weather. The Delta Works, along with the network of dykes ...
Divers and anglers against steel slag
. They are opposed to the government's plan to use steel slag to reinforce the underwater dykes at ten locations ...
China and India hit by monsoon rain
damaged dykes. The heavy rainfall has also caused landslides and many houses have collapsed ...
Sea level blunder enrages Dutch minister
century, flooding will be able to be prevented with existing technology (reinforcing and raising dykes ...
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