Five million for pioneering research into land subsidence in the Netherlands

13 June 2019

More than 500 million people live in river deltas around the world. These areas, where the subsurface is often soft, are being used ever more intensively and are becoming ever more densely populated. Groundwater extraction,…

10 million euro for One Health research in the Netherlands

12 June 2019

Outbreaks of (new) infectious diseases in humans and animals are becoming more prevalent worldwide. That is due to various factors, such as international trade and travelling, population growth and climate change. In the Netherlands, a…

How has the sea level in the Netherlands developed during the past nine thousand years?

5 June 2019

New standardised analysis of the ‘Greater Rotterdam’ sea level Marc Hijma (Deltares) and Kim Cohen (Utrecht University) selected the most accurate geological sea-level observations for the southwest part of the delta, which they refer to…

Australia – operational dam management in South East Queensland

23 May 2019

Ambassador Derckx got informered about the operational dam management of the Wivenhoe and other dams in this part of Australia. For this, Seqwater uses Delft-FEWS software, a collection of modules designed for building hydrological predictions…

Argentina – Strategy to improve water quality Morón River

6 May 2019

The communities of Morón and Hurlingham, Comirec (the water management authority), Aysa (a drinking water and wastewater company) and the Provincial Authority ADA (whose remit covers the discharge of industrial wastewater) developed a strategy in…

Deltares overview 2018

18 April 2019

Innovative solutions for climate and water, a sustainable living environment and future-proof infrastructure. Projects that we often tackle together with other research partners and companies. You can read, for example, about the sheet piling experiment…

Validation tests for innovative mooring technology in ports of the future

10 April 2019

An open port has less impact on the coastal zone, but the berths are more exposed to waves.  It places more stringent demands on the mooring system that keeps vessels in place during loading and…

Life in a delta region, where do all those microplastics go?

9 April 2019

In the Netherlands, we can measure the concentrations of microplastics to see if they are a problem for nature and perhaps for our health. But if you can model them, you can calculate in advance…

Water Quality Knowledge Impulse launched

8 April 2019

In early 2016, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, in its report ‘Water quality now and in the future’ (in Dutch), estimated that the planned improvement measures would very probably not achieve the desired water quality…

Improved European land loss predictions due to sea level rise using better geophysical data

8 April 2019

Panos Athanasiou (Deltares / University of Twente) investigated the effect that the location of sandy coasts has on these estimates by considering two existing data sets (EUROSION and the Shoreline monitor), where the latter was…