Dike grave of Water Board Rijn & IJssel Hein Pieper "The amount of rain we now have to cope with was foreseen for 2030. To deal with that, the smaller inland waters need much more nature. Places where, like here, we can play with extremely high water." Much more has already been done along the major rivers. After extremely high water in the 1990s, the mega-project "Room for the River" was started in 2000. Along the IJssel, Waal, Nederrijn and Lek rivers, the floodplains have since been designed in such a way that the rivers can sometimes step outside their banks for hundreds of meters without too much inconvenience to local residents.
These days, the major rivers can handle much higher water levels. 'Right now, 8 million litres of water per second enter our country at Lobith,' says Pieper. 'Our dikes can handle 16 million litres, and if necessary 16.5. You can see from the high-water problems now occurring in Germany that we really have a head start.'
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