Engelse les over living with water

Living with water

Even on the highway

Have you ever seen this?

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Lesson duration is: 15 min

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Living with water

Even on the highway

Have you ever seen this?

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Threat of rain, but also of the sea

The Netherlands is partly under the sea level.

The sea can flood our land

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The Netherlands of the past

You can see

today's

Netherlands

in thin lines

What do

you notice?

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This is a map of the Netherlands without

dunes

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sea level

A big part of the Netherlands is below sea level.

You can compare it with holes in a road that are flooded

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N.A.P

N.A.P means

Normaal Amsterdams Peil.

A NAP height of 0 m is approximately equal to the sea level of the North Sea.

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This is a map of the Netherlands without

dunes and dikes

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protection against water

Build dikes

wider
higher
stronger

and connecting dikes

But also:

Widening rivers and canals
Create floodplains

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Mounds

People used to build mounds.

A mound is an artificial hill to have a dry place at high tide.

Sometimes an entire village was built on it.

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What are the consequences for:

people?
animals?
Nature?

Would you survive a flood?

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It often went wrong in the past, resulting in disasters

Fortunately, the Dutch have learned to live with water.

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