Faced with Historic Drought, the Dutch Rethink Water Management
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Faced with historic drought, the Dutch rethink water management
Like many European countries, the Netherlands has been hit by a historic summer drought caused by a prolonged dry spell, exceptional heat and intense evaporation. The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks. Now their country, which is lower than sea level, finds itself, in an era of global warming, facing a dilemma: how to retain water while protecting themselves…
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Every summer, the same word returns to the mainstream media — 'historic drought' — and usually with exactly one explanation behind it: the climate. But there is a second, more uncomfortable, and much better-documented explanation that you rarely hear in drought reporting: the Netherlands is not so much grappling with a water shortage as with a water management problem. The water is there — we are just letting it flow away too quickly.
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