Dirk-Jan Walstra appointed to Board of Directors

31 January 2023

“I look forward to further shaping Deltares’ important mission of ‘Enabling Delta Life’, together with Dirk-Jan and the Strategic Management Team. Our knowledge and experience are more necessary than ever given the challenges we face…

Will urban water be ready for multiple uses by 2040?

17 January 2023

Growing ambitions for the use of urban surface water Society uses urban water – canals and ponds – for a wide range of purposes. For her doctoral research, Van der Meulen conducted in-depth interviews with…

Sustainability of fresh groundwater resources in fifteen major deltas around the world

21 December 2022

To establish a clearer picture of the present size of these precious resources, Deltares experts Joeri van Engelen, Gu Oude Essink and Marc Bierkens recently published a study in the journal ‘Environmental Research Letters’. The…

Climate adaptation and mitigation can, and must, reinforce each other as much as possible

20 December 2022

  What is climate adaptation and what is climate mitigation? The earth is warming up and the climate is changing. The Netherlands has to prepare for the risks of the changing climate and adapt the…

New geohazard tool allows emergency responders to reach disaster areas more quickly and efficiently

7 December 2022

When disaster strikes, three questions are crucial for aid workers: Which areas are hardest hit? Who is affected? How many people are affected? Unfortunately, the answers to those questions are rarely readily available. The latest…

Good and healthy groundwater, now and in the future

7 December 2022

In densely populated areas such as the Netherlands, more and more claims are being made on the subsurface. They involve drinking water supply, housing, the energy transition, nitrogen emissions, sustainable agriculture and the protection of…

Important next step in application of olivine

7 December 2022

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and it is important to reduce carbon emissions to combat further global warming. Clearly, this cannot be achieved solely by using olivine. Measures to reduce carbon emissions continue to…

Adopting a resilience lens in flood risk management  

22 November 2022

“Our paper helps to focus flood risk management on the people that suffer most and on aspects that matter most to the people affected,” said Karin de Bruijn, flood resilience expert at Deltares and lead author…

PhD thesis: Towards global-scale compound flood risk modeling

21 November 2022

At the global scale flood risk models still analyze each flood driver in isolation. At the local scale, state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models have been developed for compound flooding, but these are not globally applicable. The overall…

TO2: solutions for tomorrow as well as today

8 November 2022

This includes the creation of innovative technologies that respond to these challenges and which are important for our future jobs and incomes. These TO2 institutes are the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN), Deltares, the Netherlands…