Climate change and the consequences for water supplies in Europe

11 September 2022

Climate change and the consequences for water supplies in Europe As temperatures rise and precipitation decreases due to climate change, the combination of heat and drought is becoming more common. This makes water shortages more…

NieuweWarmteNu! to build collective heating systems thanks to Growth Fund

31 August 2022

Bonne van der Veen, co-author of the proposal: “With the approval of twelve projects and the demonstration of 6 innovations in practice in NieuweWarmteNu!, we will be building collective and sustainable heat systems with low…

New classification of the world’s coastlines to improve climate action

31 August 2022

This new classification, hazard mapping and climate change adaptation guidance builds on the Coastal Hazard Wheel that is a universal coastal management framework. The new global coastal classification and adaptation guidance is made available as…

Drought key issue for Deltares at SIWI World Water Week 2022

23 August 2022

The SIWI World Water Week officially kicks off today. Held annually since 1991, the World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues and attracts a wide range of participants from across the…

New research shows communities around small reservoirs more vulnerable to climate extremes

15 August 2022

Published last Friday in Nature Scientific Reports, a new study identified and analyzed 71,208 small and medium reservoirs using Global Water Watch, a platform that provides free, globally-accessible, near-real-time information on water. This platform is…

Louisiana Governor visits the Netherlands to exchange lessons on flood risk management

9 August 2022

Flood control challenges The delegation included representatives from amongst others Louisiana Economic Development, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, The Water Institute of the Gulf, the Port of New Orleans and the Baton Rouge Area…

Capturing plastic effectively by looking at the water column as a whole

18 July 2022

Which is why the entire water column has now been studied to see where the plastic is located. We discovered that, in terms of mass and numbers of items, most of the plastic is in…

New global projections of tides and storm surge available based on high resolution climate models

7 July 2022

State of the art modelling To this end, Deltares has updated the global projections of extreme sea levels. The projections are derived with the Global Tide and Surge Model version 3 (GTSMv3.0). GTSM is a…

New study shows flood risk already affects 1.81 billion people

29 June 2022

Among these people, 170 million are currently living in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 per day), and almost 780 million belong to some level of poverty (less than $5.50 per day). This study describes the…

Reducing the ecosystem-based carbon footprint of coastal engineering

22 June 2022

With the report ‘‘Reducing the ecosystem based carbon footprint of coastal engineering’, the authors aim to facilitate discussions among those that commission, finance, design or implement projects towards more climate and ecosystem friendly coastal engineering….