Deltares contributing to the Urban Resilience Summit: largest ever gathering of urban resilience experts

19 July 2017

New solutions, collaboration and best practices The Summit will begin on Monday, July 24th in New York and convenes members from the global network of 100RC leaders – including approximately 80 Chief Resilience Officers (CROs)….

Combat coastal erosion at the South Korean east coast

19 July 2017

Together with the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) Deltares helps to better understand and predict coastal erosion at the Korean east coast and, based on this understanding, develop adequate mitigation strategies. Moreover,…

Louisiana and Dutch water institutes join forces

10 July 2017

Deltares and The Water Institute have been working under more limited agreements since The Water Institute was created in 2011. Based in Baton Rouge, the Institute was established by leaders in Louisiana to inform and…

Storm test on Frisian asphalt can save millions on dikes throughout the Netherlands

10 July 2017

Asphalt was transported from Friesland to Delft specially for the test. The results should tell us whether the asphalt in place now will be strong enough in the decades to come, or whether it needs…

Simulation meteo-tsunami 29 May 2017 along Dutch coast

5 July 2017

In the early morning of May 29, 2017 suddenly a number of noticeably high waves were observed along the Dutch coast. The high waves, also called meteo-tsunami, were caused by the active line of thunderstorms…

Provincial authority and Deltares team up for a climate-resilient South Holland 

5 July 2017

The basis for the alliance was established when the provisional authority visited Deltares for a working visit on 17 May 2016. Rik Janssen: ‘As a provincial authority, we want to invest in a climate-resilient South…

Milestone Sava Flood Warning and Forecasting System implementation project

3 July 2017

Second pre-release At the workshop the pre-release 0.2 was presented according to planning and specifications. The focus of this second pre-release was to implement the hydrological and hydraulic models and to connect them to operational…

Webinar “The MI-SAFE package: Resources to implement nature based flood defence”

24 June 2017

Nature-based solutions are becoming recognised as amongst the most sustainable and cost-effective approaches towards coastal flood and erosion risk reduction. So far, however, such solutions have not been widely implemented. The quantifiable demonstration of benefits…

Roadmap and model for improving water quality in Lake Toba (Sumatra)

20 June 2017

Development includes the construction of two new toll roads and a new ferry link to transport tourists to and across the lake. The plans are part of the Lake Toba Tourism Master Plan, which also…

Drilling in the submerged land below the North Sea

16 June 2017

These days, the story of how exactly the land under the North Sea was submerged is buried below water and sand. Not only is that story geologically and archaeologically important, it also contains lessons for…