Taolinkou Reservoir management project in China

14 June 2018

The mission started with a visit to the dam, followed by a detailed introduction of the dam and reservoir by Mr. Lv Baoliang, Director of TRA. A meeting was organized at the office building of…

Deforestation over the past fifty years mapped out using smoke from forest fires

14 June 2018

Satellite data and weather stations Until now, estimates of deforestation have been based primarily on data supplied by the countries themselves, as a result of which it was often not known where the deforestation was…

Water knowledge vital to military missions

13 June 2018

Rijkswaterstaat specifically opted for a defence scenario based on the Rijkswaterstaat partnership with WTEc (Water Risk Training Expertise centre), which includes the water partners Rijkswaterstaat, water management authorities and the Ministry of Defence. The exercise…

Nature’s choice for flood protection

8 June 2018

Three researchers want to create the world’s first life-size experiment to test the power of trees to protect us from floods by building a forest in the largest wave-testing site in the world, the Delta…

Strengthening ties with Ghana on reservoir management

5 June 2018

Effectively addressing these issues requires the involvement and governing of many different stakeholders as well as the application of the right technology and process knowledge that helps realizing Ghana’s short and long term needs. Currently,…

Cascading domino effects of floods on critical infrastructures: CIrcle Tool now online available

29 May 2018

To better understand and elaborate the complexity and interdependent relations between different critical infrastructure systems, Deltares designed CIrcle, an interactive digital tool to visualize  cascading effects. This tool can is especially useful for interactions between…

Jan De Nul and Deltares use advanced CFD for design of foundations for the Kriegers Flak substations

25 May 2018

For gravity-based structures at shallow and intermediate waters, wave slamming may cause high loads, which potentially lead to geotechnical instability. It is difficult to mitigate this risk due to the unique design of the gravity-based…

The Pacific’s most densely-populated island under threat

24 May 2018

About Ebeye The island of Ebeye is a small strip of land on the Kwajalein atoll (Republic of the Marshall Islands) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With a population density of about 40,000…

Learning more about land subsidence in Kanis, Kamerik and Kockengen

17 May 2018

The land in Kanis, Kamerik and Kockengen has subsided by up to four metres in the past 1000 years. In recent years, the rate of subsidence has been 14 centimetres a year in some locations…

Deltares updates the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta substations

9 May 2018

Deltares performed model tests in 2016 to investigate scour development and conceptual scour protection for the platforms commissioned by TenneT. The contract for the construction and installation of both platforms was awarded to HSM Offshore in 2017…