SvennoJ said:
Yes and they also (or maybe still) got a lot of gas from the north of the country, which resulted in the land sinking. Same problem with more land reclamation. You lower the ground water level which lowers the rest of the land. Floating houses are getting more popular though and there were ideas for floating roads as well. |
Also, isn't the problem increasingly going from "keeping the sea out" to "getting the river water out into the sea"? With rising sea level, the water level on the Rhine Delta and halfway inlands also rises, as the river is almost flat at sea level by that point. In other words, on a high tide, the water wouldn't flow off anymore and start accumulating, risking to flow over the levies if too much accumulates that way.
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