Report on the Clean Water Experiment

9 February 2018

The people of Amsterdam were given a special toolbox to measure water quality themselves and they sent their results to a special website. The results and lessons learned from this experiment can now be found…

Coastal zone management study for Aruba

2 February 2018

Increasing pressure on coastline Tourism on Aruba has increased at a substantial rate during the last decades of the 20th century. About 90% of the Aruban gross national product is earned through tourism or related activities. Increasing tourism…

Dutch knowledge used to develop and protect Manila Bay

24 January 2018

  Building on past experience The Philippine government believes that the execution of this plan will benefit millions of people around the bay. The planning project will cost approximately 5 million euros, with 1 million…

Failures of critical infrastructure during floods: training Red Cross volunteers in Dar es Salaam

16 January 2018

Understanding your own vulnerabilities As part of a Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) “Challenge Fund” project, Deltares, VU University Amsterdam, Tanzania Red Cross Society and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, developed a…

Adaptation Approach for a Water-Sensitive Mexico City

15 January 2018

The goal is therefore to identify concrete solutions in a more holistic approach that integrates the design of public space and water management in a more comprehensive strategy. Problems all magnify each other The strength…

Sea level on Dutch coast higher than ever in 2017

12 January 2018

No surprise Sea level expert Fedor Baart of research institute Deltares: ‘I’m not surprised that the sea level was higher than ever last year. The level has been rising gradually since 1890 by about 0.2…

Our planet monitored in millions of megapixels

11 January 2018

Water sources under pressure The monitoring of surface water is becoming increasingly important because water sources are under pressure from economic sectors such as industry, agriculture, energy, tourism and domestic use. Furthermore, water availability is…

Users can get started: Sava Flood Forecasting and Warning System for riparian states in the Sava River drainage area

9 January 2018

Workshop On 12 and 13 December, 25 operational forecasters (hydro-meteorological organisations from several countries) met up in Ljubljana to examine the first complete version. The US embassies from the five countries donated the hardware (laptops…

Applied Open Data for Sustainable Development

18 December 2017

  The Declaration and outcome of the workshops   The endorsement of The Hague Declaration on Planetary Security with concrete actions was a key outcome of this conference. Deltares was one of the 87 parties…

Transportation and installation tests of gravity based structures successfully completed

8 December 2017

Gravity based structures are support structures held in place by gravity. They are widely used in civil engineering and the oil and gas industry. Recently several designs of gravity based wind turbine foundations for offshore…