Impact assessments for pulp and oil palm plantations in the Kampar Peninsula peatlands, Riau, Indonesia

Deltares experts and partners are investigating how deforestation and drainage of tropical peatlands in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau, Indonesia, are causing carbon loss and subsidence, which will eventually lead to flooding and production loss. This…

Mobile Services for Flood Early Warning in Bangladesh

Real-time information for flood event management

Bangladesh is an extremely flood prone country and an effective flood warning system is essential for preparedness.  Although Bangladesh has an extensive flood forecasting system in place there are still challenges to effectively communicate this…

Early-Warning System for storm surge and tide in Mauritius

Real-time information for flood event management

The Republic of Mauritius is the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the Indian Ocean with its own tide and storm surge Early-Warning System for improving preparedness and resilience to events like cyclones. Deltares…

New Delta research of groundwater reserves deltaic areas worldwide

Freshwater Scarcity

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. Together with…

Sound management and maintenance for older asphalt revetments

The Netherlands has approximately 600 kilometres of dikes, and sea dikes in particular, that are covered with asphalt. Something like 70% of those dikes are now older than thirty years. The assessment conducted every five…

Coincidence analysis for the Noorderzijlvest water authority

The conjunction of high outer water levels at sea with extreme rainfall (in other words, ‘coincidence’) can represent a problem for the drainage of polder and canal systems in the Dutch coastal area. Using models,…

ForeShore: soft solutions – certain safety

Worldwide, hard structures are used as coastal protection measure. These structures are static and do not respond to changing boundary conditions like sea level rise and increasing storminess. Moreover, the energy released during extreme events…

Land subsidence research project in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Land subsidence is one of the world’s underrated problems

The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is a fertile and economically important area in Southeast Asia that is also known as Vietnam’s ‘rice bowl’. The area is subsiding at a rate of 1-4 centimetres a year,…

Fort Steurgat – implementation of vegetated foreshores

Nature-based engineering

Global change is altering the frequency and intensity of storms and related flood risks. This calls for an update of the flood protection systems in many countries. Dikes and levees have traditionally been designed as…

Global Groundwater Risk Indicators

Water supply in urbanising deltas

Global scale indicators of groundwater risks In this project, Deltares and Utrecht University will provide global scale indicators of groundwater related risks and sustainable groundwater use, under current and past climate and socio-economic conditions. These…