More than two thousand pages of knowledge about climate change adaptation

8 September 2015

European Climate Proof Areas Deltares contributed to the chapter about regional climate change adaptation in coastal zones, which lists a range of cases from the European Climate Proof Areas (CPA) programme. In this programme, Deltares…

Delft3D course in Ecuador

4 September 2015

The training consisted of several topics within Delft3D: hydrodynamics, waves, sediment transport and morphodynamics. INOCAR is planning to use the modelling package on a number of research and consultancy projects in support to their daily…

Strategic deployment of Dutch water expertise in Colombia

3 September 2015

Delft-FEWS: a nationally-recognised system for high-water forecasting in Colombia Colombia suffered severe flooding in 2010 and 2011. Since then the Netherlands has started to work together more closely with Colombia, for example on a Coastal…

Dutch Risk Reduction Team in Myanmar

2 September 2015

DRR Team Myanmar focuses on two regions: Flood control and dike management in the Ayeyarwady delta region Management of and early warning for flash floods in Kale Township Area (Sagaing region). Members of DRR Team…

Pioneering research on global fresh groundwater reserves

26 August 2015

Recently, NASA warned that ‘the largest underground water basins in the world are disappearing at an alarming rate’. This is bad news: drinking water supplies, food production and industry depend on fresh groundwater. Research institute…

Water management values

18 August 2015

They will develop a concrete framework that will then be tested in the Netherlands and Mozambique. Mozambique was selected for reasons of cultural diversity but also on pragmatic grounds because the right contacts are available…

Deltares joins 100 Resilient Cities as a platform partner

13 August 2015

The 100RC initiative is helping cities across the world to face up to the physical, social and economic challenges of the 21st century. This is not just a question of resilience to ‘shocks’ such as…

Cyclone Storm Surge Forecasts for Mauritius

13 August 2015

The storm surge model was developed together by Deltares and the Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development, Disaster and Beach Management. It predicts where and when a storm surge is to be expected. The prediction is…

Aircraft debris MH370 makes Northern part of the search area more likely

31 July 2015

About the model Deltares experts Maarten van Ormondt and Fedor Baart used a particle tracking routine to compute the movement of debris from different locations in the search area. The calculation was made using surface…

Colombian coastal protection draws on Building with Nature and integrated coastal management

27 July 2015

The Colombian government is looking for a sustainable and integrated long-term vision for the coast that also takes climate change into account adequately. To counteract coastal erosion, the Colombian government prefers an integrated approach to…