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Demand for Dutch expertise on Nicaragua Canal

30 July 2014

More capacity is needed to cope with ever larger ships Nicaragua is planning to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, like the Panama Canal. The new canal will boost not only the…

Deltares participates in framing vision on coastal risk along U.S. coasts

25 July 2014

More information can be found in the press release with a link to the full pdf report: National Vision Needed to Achieve Comprehensive Risk Reduction Along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Bather Safety App for Sand Motor upgraded

22 July 2014

Dangerous currents The large-scale sand nourishment operation on the coast of South Holland has transformed the currents off the coast near Ter Heijde. In 2012, Rijkswaterstaat asked Deltares to develop a pilot version of the…

Scale tests for Veessen-Wapenveld high-water channel

18 July 2014

Precise picture of the flow rate of the water Project manager Judith van Os from Deltares: “The scale model study can be used to simulate in detail structures in the channel such as the dike…

Dutch experts help the Philippines to be more flood-resilient

16 July 2014

The Dutch team As well as an expert from Deltares (Tjitte Nauta, a specialist in integrated water management), the team includes experts from Royal HaskoningDHV, the Red Cross, Wetlands International and Cordaid. In recent days,…

Measuring sagging sewers from space

14 July 2014

Traditional measurement methods imprecise and expensive Many large cities are built in river estuaries on soft soil. That is the case for Amsterdam, Rotterdam and many cities in other countries. Sagging sewers can be the…

New assessment framework for investment in dike upgrades

8 July 2014

The meeting was organised to mark the completion of the doctoral research conducted by Timo Schweckendiek (Deltares/Delft University of Technology), who studied ways of reducing uncertainties associated with piping. This is a process in which…

A quick model to assess current and future global river flood risk

4 July 2014

Increase or reduction of flood risk GLOFRIS can assess changes in flood risk at the global scale under a wide range of climate and socioeconomic scenarios. In this way, scientists, governments and industry can determine…

Forebanks undervalued

2 July 2014

Adaptive dike can save millions of euros on dike upgrades Bregje van Wesenbeeck, an ecologist and a specialist in natural water defences with Deltares, will be discussing this valuable feature of forebanks in greater detail…

Possible archaeological finds mapped out in flood plains

1 July 2014

Information is now available online about the location of archaeological sites in flood plains, describing not just known sites but also where they can be expected. The ‘archaeological expectations map for flood plains in the…