Almost a third of the Netherlands sits at or below sea level. Yet instead of losing land to the water, the Dutch have spent hundreds of years doing the opposite, turning water into land they can ...
In my last post, I wrote from the Noordwaard, a former farming polder (or protected basin) on the edge of De Biesbosch ...
WADDINXVEEN, Netherlands (AP) — Jeroen Wouda and Dirk Boom walk slowly along a Dutch dike, prodding at the bone dry surface with metal rods and scanning the parched grass for patches of green that ...
It was 2 a.m. when the floodwaters came, inundating an entire residential area in the village of Wilnis, near the Dutch city of Utrecht. Some 1,500 people had to be evacuated. An old dike had broken ...
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