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Flood Risk Strategies

The Delta Programme sets out new strategies to ensure that flood defences and freshwater supplies will be maintained sustainably and robustly in 2050. Our country needs to maintain its capacity to manage more extreme climate…

INTACT: Impact of extreme weather on crucial infrastructure

Flood Risk Strategies

Extreme weather is a phenomenon that is seen in all seasons in Europe. Heat-waves, extreme cold, extreme rainfall, mist, snow, black ice, drought, gales and storms are having an increasing impact on the systems that…

Making the Markermeer and IJmeer lakes More Natural

Eco-engineering

The More Natural Markermeer-IJmeer research programme (NMIJ) looks at which measures are effective in restoring and strengthening the ecosystem in the Markermeer lake. It is located in, among other places, a unique aquatic testing ground,…

Dikes on Peat

Dikes, levees and dams

‘Dikes on Peat’ is an innovative research project that Deltares is carrying out in collaboration with the Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier water authority and Rijkswaterstaat. The aim is to develop a new calculation method specifically for…

Working on healthy rivers and streams in REFORM

Eco-engineering

The EU REFORM project is making a contribution to the healthy ecological condition of rivers and streams in Europe. Rivers and streams are essential elements of the ecosystem but increasing levels of use have had…

Swansea Bay: Testing the world’s largest tidal lagoon in Delft

Renewable energy from water and subsoil

Deltares is using a scale model to test the design of a new tidal power plant in Swansea Bay, which is located on the Bristol Channel. The replica of the tidal lagoon has been built…

RWsOS North Sea: Operational Forecasting System for the North Sea

Real-time information for flood event management

RWsOS North Sea is a state of the art forecasting system for water levels and waves on the North Sea. In the last few years, a new forecasting system has been developed. This involved both…

Blue Spots

Climate adaptation

On behalf of Rijkswaterstaat, Deltares has mapped out weak points in the Dutch road network. These blue spots are potential weak links if there are floods, long periods of rain, or extreme rainfall patterns. The…

Aqueduct project: Development of the Global Flood Risk Analyzer

Global data and tools for flood risk assessment

River flooding will affect more people and cause significantly more damage by 2030, as climate change and socioeconomic development accelerate, according to the first-ever public analysis of current and future river-flood risks worldwide. River flooding…

Dam synchronisation and flood releases in Zambezi river basin

The “Dam Synchronization and Flood Releases in the Zambezi River Basin Project” investigated the extent to which the timing of releases for electricity production, agricultural demands, environmental flow, dam safety, and flood protection from existing…