Contract extended for Sand Motor bathing safety application

2 August 2018

Roderik Hoekstra: ‘It’s good to get this confirmation of the value of the information we have provided to the rescue teams since the creation of the Sand Motor.’ The safety of bathers has been kept…

Temporary bubble screen in the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to stop salinisation

27 July 2018

Rijkswaterstaat West Nederland Noord has asked Deltares to advise on the use of a temporary bubble screen in the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to stop salt penetration further into the canal. As drought conditions continue, the salt…

Understanding the subsurface makes New Orleans more robust

25 July 2018

The City’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability is partnering with Deltares and Deltares USA Inc., to assist with development of the plans, as well as implementation of many of the plan’s scientific and technical components….

Dutch Risk Reduction Team visits Cuba this week

16 July 2018

Malecon of Havana At the request of Cuba, a Dutch Risk Reduction Team has been selected that will advise on a disaster risk reduction strategy for Cuba, with particular focus on the coastal protection for…

New Research Agenda online

11 July 2018

The research planned for the next four years breaks down into six important themes: flood risk management, ecosystems and environmental quality, water and raw materials, building in the delta, adaptive delta planning and ‘enabling technologies’….

SandBox for the Waal River opened for the public

6 July 2018

A crowdfunding campaign made it possible for the natural history museum De Bastei in Nijmegen to acquire a SandBox model of the Waal for its collection. Modelling with the SandBox gives you the opportunity to…

Extreme sea levels predicted to increase along global coastlines

6 July 2018

Future risk of extreme sea levels Extreme sea levels occur through a combination of high tides and extreme weather events, which can generate storm surges and high wind waves. These phenomena are exacerbated by progressive…

Willows are an asset in natural flood defences

29 June 2018

In the Netherlands, nature and flood risk management sometimes conflict. Trees in the river area are sometimes removed where they could help to break waves. Learning more about how trees dampen waves could help to…

Global hydraulic model crucial in new distance record during the Volvo Ocean Race

28 June 2018

Tailored charts for forecasting tides and currents Deltares produced specific forecast charts for the team based on the ‘Global Tide and Surge Model’, using Delft3D FM. The team and Deltares met regularly during the final…

Peeking into the future with adaptive pathways

26 June 2018

Hunter Water’s Water Resilience team and Deltares organised a workshop on the 17th of May 2018 to further develop planning tools for an uncertain future. These tools help planners create a strategic vision of the…