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Pollutants traced faster in groundwater

16 October 2014

Precise picture of water quality Current analysis techniques fail to detect extremely low concentrations of substances. Concentrating compounds by using passive samplers makes this possible and establishes a better picture of water quality. The passive…

Tests for Tsunami Barrier

15 October 2014

Barrier unfolds automatically Dyneema® is the strongest fibre in the world and, at the same time, it is very light and flexible and so it is used in many different ways. A few years ago,…

New knowledge and opportunities for groundwater in Colombia

15 October 2014

There are problems with drought in the Valle del Cauca in the south-west of Colombia, but also with flooding. The area is a large valley, where the main activity is sugar-cane cultivation, which depends in…

Visit from Korea

14 October 2014

The Koreans were mainly interested in the Dutch preventive approach to flood prevention, and particularly natural solutions. As well as talking to a range of people here, the visitors were also taken round the Deltares…

Knowledge portal for climate-resilient planning

14 October 2014

There are no set standards or assessment values for many aspects of water-resilient and climate-proof activities. That means that stakeholders have to formulate their own objectives and ambitions. The knowledge required for that purpose, as…

Coastal protection project begins for a safer Jakarta

10 October 2014

The first pile for the new sea dike went into the ground, marking the start of the work for the NCICD project (National Capital Integrated Coastal Development), which will defend the city from the impacts…

SOLUTIONS scrutinises new sources of pollution

9 October 2014

Pollution by pharmaceuticals and health care products is poorly understood SOLUTIONS was launched by the EU because new sources of pollution such as pharmaceuticals and health care products may cause numerous problems for European water…

Tsunami modelling at the Delft Software Days

6 October 2014

Unique features to set up tsunami models The Delft3D simulation software has been designed to simulate tsunamis, and together with Delft Dashboard, which offers unique features to set up tsunami models, and Delft-FEWS as an…

Vegetation in salt marshes improves coastal protection from storms

2 October 2014

This means that dikes behind salt marshes can be a lot lower and cheaper. The results of the tests, which were conducted in the Large Wave Flume in Hannover, have been published in the leading…

Deltares involved in the recovery of the Mississippi delta

30 September 2014

The winning teams were selected on the basis of their understanding of the Lower Mississippi River Delta region and their innovative ideas for the structuring and restructuring of deltas. The competition was organised by a…