Workshop Tool: Added Value of Joint Action

Looking for ways to help the stakeholders understand the benefits of multifunctional concepts? And make the next step towards cooperation? A workshop tool is developed that can help you with this. The structured and step-by-step approach…

Dhaka’s Sustainable Water Supply

Clean water is vital

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) provides water across a service area  of  about  400  square  kilometers  in  Dhaka  City  and  its  surroundings.  It  has  been  relying heavily  on  groundwater  as  a  source  of …

Deltares updates the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta substations

Offshore Renewable Energy Sector

Deltares has worked with HSM Offshore on the updating of the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta offshore high-voltage substation (OHVS) platforms that connect the wind farms in the Borssele Wind Farm…

Strengthening the capacities for effective implementation of the EU acquis in the field of water quality

Understanding systems: from river basin to coastal zones

Sharing experience and knowledge on the different aspects of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and other related EU acquis. That is the aim of the Twinning project in which Macedonia, Austria, Lithuania and the Netherlands…

Case study Manila, Philippines

Framework for impact based forecasting

In this study a Delft-FEWS based forecasting system was developed to address impact based early warning for Manila Bay, Philippines. The current implementation focusses on cyclone events. The forecasting chain combines global forecasted data on…

Case study Dumfries, Scotland

Framework for impact based forecasting

The focus of this project is on developing timely flood maps and impact information to support emergency responders. For this project, the catchment of the River Nith to Dumfries is being used as a pilot…

MSFD-Eutro

A demonstration of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) for Region European North-West Shelf Seas and Area of benefit Coastal and Marine Environment – Water quality. Interactive web-mapping  chlorophyll indicator maps MSFD-Eutro is a…

Collaborative modelling in the Philippines, Tacloban

Smart Delta Governance

Although the Philippines are endowed with plentiful water resources, the state is often described as a paradox of abundance and scarcity. Moreover, this situation is set to worsen with projections revealing that, with a low…

Dar Es Salaam: Participatory modelling of floods using community mapped OpenStreetMap data

Urban resilience

The OpenStreetMap platform offers a user-friendly and open database to digitize mapped data. It enables any community member able to handle a computer to map the city, and as a consequence, community mapping efforts are…

MARS: The Importance of Groundwater in Multi-stressed Aquatic Ecosystems

Understanding systems: from river basin to coastal zones

The Status of Europe’s Surface Waters In 2015, only about half of Europe’s surface waters had the ecological status of ‘good’. Much effort is being made to reach the Water Framework Directive goal to have…