Climate change risk assessments and adaptation for roads, the ROADAPT project

Urban resilience analysis

Infrastructures are the backbone of our society. Citizens, companies and governments have come to rely on and expect uninterrupted availability of the road network. Extreme weather is an important factor for the reliability of the…

Cumulative Impacts and Joint Operation of Small-scale Hydropower Cascades Supported by REDP

River basin management

Small Hydropower (SHP) in Vietnam is defined as having less than 30 MW of installed power and is considered to have an important current and future contribution to renewable energy generation. Already more than 370…

Strategies for subsidence and urbanisation in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam)

This project aims to enhance the capabilities of individuals and organisations to develop sustainable strategies for dealing with groundwater extraction, land subsidence and salt water intrusion in the increasingly urbanising Mekong Delta (Vietnam). We will…

SWIBANGLA: Managing salt water intrusion impacts in coastal groundwater systems in Bangladesh

Groundwater as a source of drinking water

Bangladesh is densely populated and it is expected that the population increases significantly in the coming decade, up to 60% more by 2050 according to IIASA (2013). Demand for drinking water will increase accordingly. These…

Development of a Flood Early Warning System and an Adaptive Flood Risk Management plan for Sukhothai district / Yom River Basin

Climate adaptation

The main goals of the joint Deltares – Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (HAII) project ‘Development of a Flood Early Warning System and an adaptive flood risk management plan for Sukhothai / Yom River Basin’…

Development of a water allocation model for major basins in Myanmar

Asia

The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment provides support to the Government of Myanmar in the development of an Integrated Water Resources Management Strategy for Myanmar, and has signed an MoU with the Myanmar Ministry of Transport, in…

ARGUS video systems

Video monitoring for coastal management and engineering The recent use of ARGUS video systems has offered enhanced opportunities for the monitoring of morphodynamics of the nearshore zone. Covering space scales from less than a metre…

Exploration of efficient and cost-effective use of LiDAR data in coastal lowland/peatland landscape mapping and management

What does Deltares do? Deltares, with partners in several projects, is pioneering the use of large-scale but cost-effective LiDAR data collection in coastal lowlands, for spatial planning, management of peatlands and modelling of flood risks….

Better use of technical knowledge can cut maintenance costs for infrastructure

Land subsidence is one of the world’s underrated problems

Municipal authorities and their advisers need a better understanding of the opportunities afforded by technical solutions and new developments to mitigate the high maintenance costs associated with land subsidence. This is the conclusion of a…

Hydrorig: new fishing gear uses water as a tickler chain

Traditional beam trawls are fitted out with heavy tickler chains that are intended to drive flatfish out of the seabed. That can harm other fish living on the seabed, which may also end up in…