The need for flood protection is etched on Dutch collective thinking. In 1953, a storm surge broke through the dykes and inundated the southwest coast with metres of water. Property destruction ...

More than half the people living in the Netherlands live below sea level ... "We think that sustainability on the water can work even better than sustainability on land,” Koen Olthuis, an ...

Although it rains constantly, the Netherlands faces a future of clean water shortages, according to Dutch Delta commissioner Co Verdaas. In a keynote speech in a forum at the Aquatech conference in ...

The Dutch government has built a "sand motor" - hundreds of millions of cubic feet of dredged sand that will protect the Netherlands' southern coast from sea level rise and erosion. Over the next ...