Water availability in second phase of Delta Programme

Participatory information systems for water security

The Netherlands is facing major challenges associated with climate change. Sea levels are rising and our rivers need to discharge more water. At the same time, the climate is getting warmer and drier. That has…

Ocean modelling and Early-Warning System for the Gulf of Thailand

Asia

Storm surges associated with severe tropical cyclones are among the most hazardous and damaging natural disasters to coastal areas. The Gulf of Thailand (GoT) has been periodically affected by typhoon induced storm surges in the…

Quickscan microplastics sources

Tackling plastic soup

An approach was developed with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and Rijkswaterstaat for the Ministry of Infrastructure & the Environment to prioritise the various possible sources of microplastics. Because there is…

Micro

Tackling plastic soup

The MICRO project is studying the amount and impact of microplastics in the North Sea, the English Channel and the France-Manche area. Transport models have been developed for predicting hotspots in marine waters and sediment….

CleanSea

Tackling plastic soup

An important goal of CleanSea was to provide policymakers and administrators in Europe with approaches for reducing the amount of plastics in Europe’s seas and oceans. Deltares was one of seventeen partners in the consortium….

Greening Plastics in Senegal

Major issues such as waste management, environmental degradation and rising demand for food dominate the political agenda in the African country of Senegal. The Greening Plastics project focuses on the interaction between all these areas….

Singapore to adopt Dutch polder concept as new land reclamation method at Pulau Tekong

Urban resilience

Singapore will reclaim land through the development of a polder at the north-western tip of Pulau Tekong, an island north-east of mainland Singapore. This cost-saving method, to be used for the first time in Singapore,…

Stratigraphic modeling with the Delft3D GeoTool

Characterisation and visualisation of the subsurface

The Delft3D GeoTool is an open-source software, which allows to easily setup and run Delft3D simulations, populate, access, and mine a database of numerical river delta models, and export relevant data to existing software used…

Protecting Colombo against future floods

Urban resilience

Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, was hit in May 2016 by the worst flooding since 1989. Encroachment of valuable wetland systems, informal settlements and less efficient urban drainage systems contributed to the intensity of…

Smart

Salvage and wreck removal

In salvage and wreck removal operations, the complexity, operational and environmental requirements call for a multidisciplinary approach. Deltares understands this and provides specialist knowledge in areas like geotechnical and coastal engineering, morphology, dredging, metocean and…