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[@RichardWicky]

The Netherlands has helped countries worldwide with water management, Dutch companies have built the palm islands in Dubai.

[@TTTzzzz]

They are sinking.

[@RichardWicky]

@@TTTzzzz Your brain is shrinking

[@ChristiaanHW]

@@TTTzzzz that's what happens if the people paying for a project cheap out. they didn't want to pay the money that is needed for high quality "poldering" so they got subpar islands (made with a wrong kind of sand). as always, you get what you pay for.

[@dimrrider9133]

@@ChristiaanHW well money enough in Dubai LOL meanwhile the rest of the world is saved by the Dutch and mayby there are some countrys missing but if i have to write all the countries we help from flooting its gonne be a very very very long list so this was way shorter. Nou de neuk he ouwe zuurpruim hahaha

[@Conservative-Leftie]

​@@dimrrider9133...that is what happens if you harbour the Dutch nr1 criminal Taghi...polders need to be maintained...Dubai does not have enough money to do it themselves ...so they found out the hard way, and in the end extradited Taghi...there is always more to a story...

[@jutswheezie]

I live about 20 miles from the dutch border and have great admiration for this country. Lovely people, lovely cities - great engineering !!!

[@Houseoforangecarrots]

About 8 years or so ago I was driving in the region of Den Bosch with my girlfriend of the time sitting next to me. She wasn't Dutch and while driving I remarked 'ohhh the highway takes a new route here, probably because they moved the river'. I said it so casually, but she looked at me and said 'they moved the river..?!'. My response 'yearh...? What's the problem?'. She was so shocked, not only that we simply move a river, but also how normal something like that was to me as a Dutch person.

[@ru802000]

The Dutch created the kroket, also worth mentioning

[@mourlyvold64]

And the stroopwafel!

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

Don't forget about the kapsalon

[@hees320]

Dude, you really forget the frikandel??

[@petermaardananders6803]

Bitterballen. And (allegedly the practical use of) the Crankshaft was and has been proven quite useful to ;)

[@Kristiaan75]

No it's French... Beetje dom van je..

[@Jila_Tana]

There are many video's mentioning the topic of the Netherlands being the 2nd highest agricultural exporter in the World, however, what all of them fail to mention is that a large part of that export, was previously imported from elsewhere. it is not that my country is producing as much food as the US is able to. We import coffee from Colombia, process it and export it all over Europe. We import natural gas and oil from elsewhere, process it and export it. And when we put it like that, it may still be impressive, but it does make the full picture clearer and honest. To me, as a Dutch, this countries infrastructure is normal. The only time we appreciate it, is when traveling from abroad, drive across the 'non-existent' border and suddenly all the holes in the road are gone. (Sorry Belgium)

[@Aragorn.Strider]

yes we were but Dutch politicians now want to starve ourselves. And if you thats crazy, yes it is.

[@Djbiohazard1991]

I came back from 3 days in France, and the first thing I did upon return was drinking a couple glasses of tapwater without the taste of chlorine. You don't know what you got until it's gone :)

[@EGO0808]

@@ricardomeertens9165start studying English.

[@tomvanaarle2622]

You have no idea how much in agricultural products the USA imports. The net export of agricultural products of the Netherlands was €40 billion last year, about $43 billion. The net export of agricultural products of the USA was -$12 billion in 2022. I have no numbers for 2023, but the USA was a net *importer* in 2022 while the Netherlands has not been a net importer at any point in the last decade.

[@jaaput]

"but it does make the full picture clearer and honest" Just do not confuse export with production. We all understand that the USA *produces* more food than the Netherlands, but *exporting* is just another measure. And we export a lot. As you explain we do not only export our own produce, but we also export food that we first imported and then processed. So we did not produce it ourselves. But the total value of exported food is still the second largest in the world. What exactly is unclear or dishonest about that?

[@ChaufMT]

Remember, building the Oosterscheldedam was done without GPS and had to be placed exact at the right spot.

[@hees320]

Mathematics..

[@CoenBalje]

'Ruimte voor de Rivier' or 'Room for the River' is the name of the latest completed project in the field of water management in the Netherlands. The aim of this is to prevent flooding of the major rivers. This is done by moving dikes, constructing new dikes, groynes, weirs and locks, desilting rivers, enlarging and deepening floodplains.

[@willemh3319]

randmeer , edge lake

[@jaaput]

Prevent flooding into areas that we do not want to be flooded, by enabling flooding into "overflow" areas that we "sacrifice" for this purpose.

[@jeff_de_zebra]

the Dutch were also a massive help in the construction and the widening of the Panama Cannel and were also the ones that came to the rescue when that big cargo ship from Ever Green got stuck a few years back .

[@TheSuperappelflap]

You mean the Suez canal

[@AudieHolland]

Being Dutch myself and not that easily impressed, I watched a documentary of a major Dutch world wide salvage company (I think it was Smit Tak at the time, now merged with Boskalis), showing how it fought fires onboard ocean going vessels. A single Dutch engineer was put onboard the ship with the 'being on fire' problem. And camera crew but they were only filming. No idea how he managed it but he was succesful saving the ship.

[@JCBrt760]

@@TheSuperappelflapno he does mean the Panama Chanel. That one we helped design. The Suez is where we came to the rescue of the Ever Given 😉

[@quickwimnl]

@jeff_de_zebra Wrong ship in the wrong channel. Ever Given in the Sues.

[@maikeljans2046]

@@quickwimnl Mans said 2 different things, 1 they helped with the widening of the panama canal. 2 they helped the big cargo ship. Nothing in his message states the cargo ship is in the panama canal, thats just ur assumption ^^

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Just dumping massive amounts of dirt and rocks into the ocean? Well, I never expected to be insulted like that. We did research. And it was found that, by building a base of heavy river clay, and then topping it with layers of sand, gravel, and basalt blocks, that would provide the best defense. In the 1920s. A whole miniature wave lab was built to test out different designs and see how they reacted to repeated wave impacts. Since then we have upgraded it several times to include different types of rocks, concrete mesh structures, rubber pads to grow seeweed and other plants on to keep the soil compact and reduce wave impact, and a bunch of stuff I dont even understand. Just dump dirt into the ocean. Pfff. This is world class science!

[@jooproos6559]

Yeah!Just dumping clay or sand can anybody in the world..😆

[@SensitivityGames]

Don't forget the strange idea to 'pump' the water. It's more accurate to say drill hahahahahaha

[@quinob]

It is interesting that in the Netherlands it's not municipalities or provinces that are responsible for day to day water management, but special governing bodies called 'waterschappen' (water councils). They have the right to levy their own taxes, so every houshold doesn't only pay income tax and council taxes, but also 'waterschapsbelasting' (water council tax).This tax is collected directly by the water councils and is used for the financing of water management at a regional level.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

And in existence since the 13th century.

[@devnull1013]

Currently the Afsluitdijk is being upgraded. There's a 3 part series "The Afsluitdijk 'Waterworks'" that outlines the project's goals and methods.

[@marcelrenes2435]

For me 'The Maeslantkering' is the greatest feature of Dutch engineering. It has 2 'doors' of 210 km wide, 22 meters high and 15 meters deep. When they are closed, they are filled with water (yes water😅) so it sinks to the bottom of the river in just 2 hours. It can take a storm surge of 5 meter above sea level and protects most of Rotterdam and Dordrecht.

[@hamster4618]

Agreed! But a tiny correction, each “door” is “only” 210 meters wide, not 210 km wide. That would be wider than the whole of the NLs 😜

[@marcelrenes2435]

@@hamster4618 Sorry, my fault. 🫢

[@jooproos6559]

@@hamster4618 Ja dat ligt natuurlijk aan de automatische correctie...

[@hamster4618]

@@jooproos6559 ja, herkenbaar, irritant is dat.

[@romanplays1]

@@hamster4618 still. those are doors each 2/3rds the size of the eiffel tower (wich stands at 330 meters)

[@hamster4618]

Another innovative project: de Zandmotor: “About the Sand Motor In 2011, a peninsula of 21.5 million cubic meters of sand was constructed off the coast of Kijkduin according to the principle of Building with Nature. Wind and current spread the sand along the coast and towards the dunes. The aim is to strengthen the coast in the long term and create a dynamic nature and recreational area. The Sand Motor is a unique experiment because we work with the water instead of against it. By dumping a large amount of sand at once, we prevent repeated disruption of the seabed. Nature places the sand in the right place for us.” (Google translate).

[@Donderbus]

We Dutch are as impressed as you are ;-)

[@margreetanceaux3906]

Didn’t know about this original video - although being a born and bred Dutchie; born 12 days after the 1953 flood, and living in close proximity to several Delta-works.

[@wayofthesamurai90]

Maybe visit Het watersnoodmuseum in Ouwerkerk.

[@quickwimnl]

We constructed a large island called 2e Maasvlakte to let the harbor if Rotterdam grow. And we have a crazy idea, that actually is possible to construct. It would need the whole of Europe to be constructed, but it will provide safety for the coasts of Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France and England. In lesser parts also Norway, Sweden, Finland and Poland. But at this moment, we are not working on large new polders. We are improving the dikes around the Maas and Rijn-delta.

[@bertscheltens7932]

We had an crazier idea once, do you remember the Dutch mountain project?

[@quickwimnl]

​@@bertscheltens7932 Nope. But now I know where the fraise "Eindhoven de gekste" originates from. 🤣

[@Nyx-MAKO]

It’s sad to see this guy has actually got a nice number of views on his reaction videos but people just refuse to click the bell button to get subbed. Give this man some credit! He seems really interested and actually comes with quite intelligent points himself! Greeting Johan Fonteyn! ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands!

[@nielsvandriesten4386]

Not to mentioned the Dutch helped clear the Suez canal not long ago either when there was a ship blocking it

[@mireilleb2845]

Yes we like our marine animals as well, we even have a fish doorbell for people to push if they see fish at the gates through a underwater livestream. There will be a signal going to the dam so they will open the gates for fish to swim through😂❤

[@hypatian9093]

I love that!

[@dutchyjhome]

Plans were several, but the one which is being though over seriously is to build an entire Airport outside the coast into the North-Sea, we actually did this before: Our current Main Hub National Airport called Schiphol is build on the bottom of one seriously grand lake called Haarlemmermeer. Over time, the lake had become a serious threat due to its size and the fact that it could storm so terribly that many ships ran amok and sank. This lake also did not have the best reputation because, under unfavorable winds, the centers of the two cities of Leiden and Haarlem were regularly flooded by the water of the Haarlemmer lake. The nickname of this lake at the time was: The Water Wolf. After yet another flood, King Willem 1 had the water engineer Leeghwater draw up a plan to drain the Haarlemmermeer and when this was all a fact, people in the Haarlemmermeer started to reclaim the dried-out land and started to classify it. Infrastructure also had to be built here of course and this was also the time when people started flying for the first time and so a runway was also built and one thing led to another until we have Schiphol as it is now in an undesirable location between many residents of the Haarlemmermeer and the surrounding municipalities. Schiphol causes a lot of nuisance, such as excessive noise from low-flying aircraft and a lot of emissions from aircraft. With today's knowledge, a large international airport should never have been built at this location. Another location for a large international airport in the sea is therefore still an option.

[@Brutuz62]

My late uncle "Luuk" was a farmer-pioneer in the Noord Oostpolder, agriculture and cows

[@Brutuz62]

Despite The Netherlands being the best country in the world I will be visiting England, Wales and Ireland in a couple of weeks: these are also great countries with fab peoples.

[@jackofalltrades5761]

Look into ASML the makers of chipmachines. Without them there wouldn't be any progress in computing and stuff.

[@BrazenNL]

He already made a video of it.

[@dimrrider9133]

Yeah they are the one who try to kill the people hahah time to wake up Niks om trots op te zijn als je weet wat ze van plan zijn

[@Brozius2512]

@@dimrrider9133 Jij hebt echt psychiatrische hulp nodig!

[@jackofalltrades5761]

@@BrazenNL Thanks.

[@EGO0808]

Funny you mention ASML. Recently their CEO and chairman stated it is imperative for ASML to be able to attract more foreign talent, as otherwise ASML would have to move out of The Netherlands. So much for the ‘dutchness’ of ASML.

[@rambojohn6694]

once one of the dams actually broke and water was once again flooding in not allowing sandbags to repair it a boat captain actually rammed one side of the dam and jammed his ship into the gap giving the soldiers time to fix the hole.

[@firstGrunt]

The most dutch thing is pronouncing "ui" in a way that litterally noone else can pronounce, it would seem.

[@micksteinz]

To answer you question at the end of the video: Last years them were working on increasing the capabilities of the port of Rotterdam. Making it larger so the biggest containerships and cruiseships can dock there. Adding an LNG (liquified natural gas) plant there (my father was one of the engineers that worked on it). After that I'm not sure what was built but yeah there are lots more plans that they want to do. I've heard about electrical power generators in the sea working because of tide changes. They want to put them near the wind power farms that they already made and are still making/expanding. Plus solar power (although we don't have a lot of sun here) will be a long way to be more climate neutral. Kill off all the coal and gas power plants in the future is the goal.

[@hamster4618]

Not technical, but also interesting: - We started out with terps in many areas, before we created dikes and dams. - As a result of mining peat, starting around the Middle Ages, we dug up much of our country, creating (new) lakes, which we would then reclaim. - the process of reclaiming land was costly and required cooperation. As a result we (the Dutch) had one of the earliest (sort of) democratic processes: having elections choosing representatives for the water authority (Waterschap/ dijkgraaf). - returning to the topic of peat: Peat (energy) was then, what oil is today: $$$. As a result we/some people got very rich. As we were also accustomed to working together to a shared goal, shared interests, these combined aspects led to A) the ability to built large ships, which lead to our “world domination”, the black but profitable page in our history: the VOC and the WIC, our trading posts and colonisation. B) the former also based on working together: to be able to join in and to spread risk (and share profits), wealthy people put their money together. The start of the stock market. The Netherlands had the first stock market in the world.

[@MisterAtomic684]

People are always joking about how we are going to turn the UK into mainland Europe, but I would not be surprised if this actually were to happen. There is research about there being a land bridge in the prehistoric era that later submerged, thus creating the island. This is still a visible heightened area to this day and could be used to make a new dam/landbridge to counter rising sea-levels. Such a project would counter any world wonder to this day if it were to happen.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

It would also be extremely expensive, a massive ecological disaster, and provide no benefit. What we could do is help the British, Danish and other countries to stop their shoreline from sinking into the sea with our knowledge of how to build adequate coastal infrastructure. The coastlines of the two countries I mentioned are losing land every year.

[@JCBrt760]

Whilst that is true this is also what makes the North Sea so violent. The general flow direction in that area is from the gulf of biscay through the English Chanel and into the North Sea. Now mind you the gulf of biscay can get up to 2km deep at some points whilst the deeper parts of the North Sea only go to around 300 meters. Now imagine all that water being pushed over the remains of that land bridge. The forces involved are mind boggling.

[@Chadow-ranger]

​@@TheSuperappelflap but it would be fun

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

The cost of building a dam between Scotland and Norway and another one between Cornwall and Brittany have been estimated at around 500 billion euro, with a construction time of about 50 years. 10 billion per year is absolutely viable economically. Of course, the real question is if we want to do this, since a dam would destroy the ecosystem. I'd personally prefer building masive copies of the oosterscheldekering, with copies of the maeslantkering at the location of important shipping lanes. Unfortunately, a project like that would probably lead to global iron shortages...

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

@MisterAtomic684 it was not a land bridge realy. At least to my knowledge it was a landmass that got submerged over time streching from Danmark to Sweden to England and back to mainland Europe somewhere in the channel.

[@edje858]

the photo on 07:00 was not lelystad but Almere ( I live here)

[@letheas6175]

My sincere condolances to you. Even Lelystad is better (they have museums, and a coastline with about 3,5 million visitors each year)

[@edje858]

@@letheas6175 You mad?

[@letheas6175]

@@edje858 No? Where did you read that?

[@edje858]

@@letheas6175 u condokances me and say lelystad is better, maybe thats why bcs I just say something about a foto thats is wrong in the video

[@letheas6175]

@@edje858 So? Explain to me how that is wrong or being ''mad''

[@JanwillemCramer]

The universities of Delft & Wageningen are not considered great Like Oxford or Harvard. But like the underdog that it is. It surpasses both in many fields

[@TheSuperappelflap]

International rankings are rigged for American and English universities. Not that I would recommend anyone study in Delft. It was pretty bad when I was there.

[@JanwillemCramer]

@@TheSuperappelflap You were not in the solar challenge team i reckon :)

[@frosty2975]

I live in noordoostpolder very strange to see it on an international video XD

[@huntriel984]

Long story short, it is amazing what people can build and get done when their lives depend on it.

[@keessturm2804]

I live close to the Oosterschelde keering part of the Delta works. Sometimes I take my sports bike and sycle over it. Alldoug im used to the sight it is still very impressive. There are some great videos about the Delta works on youtube.

[@willemh3319]

tegen de wind in🤪🤪

[@jooproos6559]

@@willemh3319 Mmm,ga je toch gewoon de andere kant op?

[@RobertVonSeiffenstein]

so glad you have subtitles... which language are you trying to speak... I am Dutch, direct..

[@dutchman7623]

We extend the Rotterdam harbor into the sea with Maasvlakte 1 and 2. Maasvlakte 3 will be huge and 4 will be called East London. In the future we even might create an island for the airport in the North Sea. The /Netherlands and Scotland will have a land border...

[@hisgen01]

Well, Zandvoort is already renamed into "Amsterdam beach" so it is not unthinkable to call Maasvlakte 3 "East London" 😂

[@theglanconer6463]

So proud of our Dutch ancestors. Our (great-)granddads and (great-)grandmothers were such brilliant generations. We can never repay them enough. I just wished our schools and especially our universities would teach about their deeds.But unfortunately it is now considered to be taboo. So sad but I guess it's happening everywhere in the West at the moment. But we will survive this onslaught too.

[@ivo215]

The first plans for damming off the Zuiderzee are from I believe the 1860's. And in the years following, several engineers came up with variants and improvements of the plans, Including Lely. All of them were shelved until the floods of 1916. Coincidently, Cornelis Lely was minister of Waterstaat (his 3rd time) in 1916. So naturally the plans implemented were his own. Obviously we weren't sitting still before 1916. During the the 1800's a lot of steam powered pumping stations were built, to replace the wind mills. Like the iconic Cruquius at Haarlemmermeer. And all of the rivers were fixed with stretch dams. Increasing the flow rate at the middle of the river, preventing it from freezing over during winter. And preventing creeping ice from destroying dikes or damming up rivers, ending the floods that river ice caused. And it allowed for year round shipping.

[@hannekescherpenzeel7963]

My father worked at the deltaworks. He inspected the pilars that were built.

[@Hadewijch_]

The reason why their were gates made in the dams in Zealand was not because of environmental thinking, but because a lot of mussels fishing was done in that area, and those businesses would suffer if mussels couldn't live there anymore due to the lack of incoming sea water. It was an economical decision, not an environmental one. The Netherlands never lets environmental issues get in the way of farming and fishing. The result of this is that 80% of native species have disappeared from the country and of the remains 20% another 14% is under threat.

[@teqfreak]

What I always like about Flevoland on the map, is that it has roughly the same shape as the Netherlands itself. Like if they created a mini-Netherlands inside the Netherlands.

[@margreetanceaux3906]

The forward thinking (about flora & fauna) has grown - in my opinion - also out of the life changing implications of the Afsluitdijk and the Deltaworks. F.i. all the fishermen who lost their livelihood. Every engineer is confronted with the consequences of his/her work.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

We switched to the defence (climate change and sea level rise, and isostatic depression caused this). So, increasing the heighth of the Afsluitdijk, letting seawater penetrate the first line of defence in some parts of the dunes, and the more room for rivers (controlled flooding of land at high peak water levels).

[@dimrrider9133]

climate change is a fairy tale from our corrupt gouverment same as sealevels and all that crap to get money out of our pockets ;p

[@ammelovmokum7346]

well, at the end of the nineties we thought we had the water-thing covered...then hefty rains and stuff nearly whiped out a few cities on the riverside in the east and south....ever since we also try to mitigate flooding from the inside with similar plans and hefty renovations along the rivers....as in the news this week some rivercities in germany and france are "drowning"....it is never finished when ff'ing around with forces of nature. North sea is a pretty violant litklle sea and rhine, meuse, ijsel al end up in the delta we call the netherlands🙂 btw a very good place to live(we live minus 4 metres below the sea and love it)

[@ammelovmokum7346]

oh and we just about to finish the (decade long)refurbishment of the afsluitdijk wich started it all bach in the 1900's..

[@autohmae]

8:08 let's be very clear, this was only possible because of the hunger winter during the war, the government and farmers/businesses decided to make the Netherlands self-sufficient when it comes to farming and created a knowledge hub for farming and other food production at the university. This is now the most prominent university in the world on the subject, THAT is how the Dutch are able to do it, not just by creating land, but being really efficient with land use.

[@RTM-fan]

I'm honoured to be Dutch, call me cheesehead, call me what ever you like I don't care because I'm Dutch and proud to live here. As we say:" geen woorden maar daden" (actions rather than words).

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

We continue with expanding our country. Check out Maasvlakte 1 and 2. Building land in to the Nortsea to expand the harbor of Rotterdam (Europort)

[@DaanWijnholds]

I lived in Dronten for 14 years and for us it is quite normal to live below sea level. If you think about it, Flevoland is the largest artificial island in the world, but many Dutch people don't know it or don't care about it

[@m.eastville8596]

I do care! And I love Lelystad very much.

[@AnimotionFX]

The history of building dikes is much older. Take for instance the Westfriese Omringdijk. 126 km long built without machines from the 13th century!

[@Poed3rbaas]

First time I heard about the project marker wadden

[@Richardtv1968]

We made plans to put a dyke/dam between norway and scotland …… there are plans to built a huge mountain in the new province of Flevoland …..many great plans or solutions are being made right now

[@frank1963]

Hi Scottish Guy, I like your enthusiasm, and your accent. Spend 6 months in Scotland and I love it. I have seen some of your videos and I like the way you do them. I see that you can use some support so I subscribed. I won’t comment a lot but I wish you good luck with your channel. Btw I’m Dutch, and I’m proud of our engineers. At the moment I’m less proud of our previous government who ruined a lot!!

[@Erik-ou3tl]

9:40 I love how you're praising the builders on that point. we weren't forward thinking there, as such. we saw the massive ecological disaster that the creation of the IJsselmeer produced, devastating fish stocks and the local fishing economy when the salty sea became a freshwater lake. to create that opening in the Deltawerken was more an economic consideration than just ecological.

[@hamster4618]

9:43 the ecological issues were a result of great debate, where engineers were were given the (seemingly) conflicting instruction: close it off for safety reasons, open it for nature.

[@SKRWildfire]

this probably 1 and only things we dutch people are are proud off here. i mean currently like almost everywhere in the world projects like these pretty much has halted and/or slowed down. because of either cost or people crying about the projects.

[@MrBuzzel7]

At 7:37 they say ...the first city was Lelystad...thats correct but they show the wrong picture that is not Lelystad but Almere with Mr Lely in front I live there. Iived in both citys so I know

[@Squishiedreamer]

I myself live in the Netherlands, in the biggest peice of self-made land, flevoland, and for me its as normal as it looks. i grew up here and i dont know more than famrland everywhere and dams al around me, protecting me from fludding.

[@dimrrider9133]

We were tired of stealing land and were looking for a new challenge. Its Almere instead of Lelystad btw at 7:37

[@philsarkol6443]

The Scottish got their own marvel of infra-structure from the industrial revolution onwards building fabulous iron bridges, castles from centuries ago, and cities like Edinburough and Glasgow...and of course ..Scotch!!!

[@rikweultjes498]

6:05 i'm really proud of it. Without it i would be drowning.

[@k1ngofpayne991]

honestly most dutchies dont even think about these marvels of engineering. We just used to dealing with water for generations. The Latest trend is that we actually make Wadi's (a indian invention i think) which is basicly like small man made ponds in neighbourhoods where the excess water can slow siphon into the ground so we dont waste it. even with all that said and the video most dutch people are like "doe normaal"(act normal) and we dont let it get to our heads.

[@vogel2280]

You know the Dutch have actually created a plan to do the same with the North Sea should sea levels rise. A dam between Schotland and Norway and close off Dover-Channel and there is huge lake of which you can control the water level. I can hear you think: But wouldn't that cost an insane amount of money? Yes! But less then the combined net worth of London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Kopenhagen, etc, etc. Should sea levels rise, it would be worth it.

[@marcopolitical7571]

Here … water doesn’t go for miles. Kilometers! The metric system was and is one of the most important tools used in creating. No miles, feet or yards of any other inferior imperial measure system.

[@timbrouns87]

Were Atlantis failed their battle against the water, the Dutch have won and took areas away from the ocean. We are modern day Atlanteans

[@RickNL86]

If you are interested on how the Netherlands became the 2nd largest exporter of food there is a good video that goes in more detail about it cause there is more to it than just this. How Does The Netherlands Feed the World?

[@basdebruin2355]

Some ideas we’re thinking of is a connection between the the ‘Wadden eilanden’ in such a manner that the ecological situation is maintained and ‘Wadden wildlife’ is guaranteed. Plans of a closure of the NorthSea (not an ocean 😊) are there as well, however, that will be a very long shot into the future.

[@sjors91]

You see only the major points thiw water engeneering & ptotection is done evrywhere..... i meen evrywhere evry city evry town the lower the city the more eater protection the entire landscape gets made evrywhere to move water.... mext to all roads off country there is a water way on both sides. Also farm land can be used in emergency to flood to protect major cities thats why farm houses are build up higher usually same for farm towns are build on hightned up platueas we live in one water just flows out of our little community never any floods😂

[@kallisto_ofzo]

What surprises me most is how important/influential Netherlands is. For such a small country that is quite impressive. Not only in the Netherlands or in Europe, but worldwide. Think of Delta Works, water management in general, bluetooth, the microscope, ASML and so on.

[@EGO0808]

I’ve been living abroad for many years (Dutch born and raised), but whenever I mention I am from The Netherlands, no one would react stating all these inventions mentioned. Other than the Dutch themselves, people around the world really couldn’t care less. Only when I state I am from Amsterdam originally, their facial expression changes and the conversation becomes engaging.

[@Lilygirl283]

Did you know that the guitarist from acdc lives in Aalten in the Netherlands? He is married to a Dutch woman, is he not Scottish heritage?

[@MisterAtomic684]

Oh wow, I didnt expect anyone to ever mention that. I lived in the Emmastraat next to it and went to the opening party of the house while also having a tour of the place. A wonderful house to check out on streetview. If I remember it right (I was 8 at the time), a funny thing was that the toilet trailer went through its supports going quite a bit sideways. I think my father was actually in that thing when that happened.

[@Lilygirl283]

I love ACDC, that would have been one experience you never forget..​@MisterAtomic684

[@dimrrider9133]

Kelly Bundy is ook getrouwd met n Nederlander maar om on topic te blijven, ik ben nog vrijgezel lol

[@Lilygirl283]

Kelly Bundy is niet echt😂😂​@@dimrrider9133

[@Ineke1466]

The Afsluitdijk which was built in 1932 with the help of lots of unemployed people during the crisis years

[@mennozaal7538]

Look at the construction of the harber of Rotterdam.

[@DenUitvreter]

Proud of policies and engineering with foresight? I've grown up taken it a bit for granted actually because that is what people can do and have done so for centuries. Cathedrals were never a one election cycle project either. I'm more ashamed of lack of bridges and quays maintenance in the past 10 years and lack of foresight in current policies regarding the grid for example.

[@altohippiegabber]

Funny how it's mostly these _foreign_ video's that make me feel proud to be _Dutch_

[@EGO0808]

Funny how Dutch take pride in things they never were part of, other than holding the passport.

[@sirrealreal]

We took the nuclear submarine kursk from the bottom of the sea...

[@lolalo6344]

1:50 that makes it sound like NL didnt steal land...

[@Conservative-Leftie]

Can't believe the English didn't call the Dutch to save Hemsby...

[@morty1988]

Study the Maasvlakte especially the second maasvlakte

[@picobyte]

It's not just the Netherlands.. without the Dutch, youtube would just not be.

[@manon5826]

i dont know if we are really proud of it. I guess for most people now its as normall as hagelslag.

[@robeleco1]

And a modern film on the massive structures noow in place to keep the sea at bay: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-ZdKihjdabmsk

[@TheJolanda01]

Very proud to be Dutch

[@Mdgd63]

Even the Dutch have look what the climate change will bring us. So calculations of the past will maybe not work anymore within de next decades. Luckily we have experience with water issues. But it will be costly to keep the sea/ocean out of NL. And then there is treat from the opposite direction. Flooding from rivers which can't put there water into the North sea. We have 3 of them; Rhine, Maas and Schelde. That's a extra challenge.

[@Akeligknetter]

If you want to see what they want in the future search for tri State city

[@renekuipers4563]

The future is The room for the river project ..you mus seen .they started.

[@peteduch2151]

I am dutch living in the middle ages also called england they used to have a empire and still behave like it sad

[@stefanhuijberts367]

Yes, this gives a feel of proud. But, to be honoust, i think we're f.. up our country pretty fast right now.

[@laurav179]

Look at a new video about Houthaven: The $1.8 Billion Plan for Amsterdam

[@ronrots4423]

To get an good idea about the Dutch i.r.t. Watermanagement i would to pinpoint on a video of Bioneers (Henk Ovink). A bit dated but still actual given climatechange etc. Gr. Ron

[@zhommes7315]

Those were the days when sense ruled and taxes were spend on things that matters in stead of handing it out to …. You know

[@gsch5651]

That were lies, we did magic to build our land!

[@taunteratwill1787]

Why don't you start with telling us what your obsession with the Netherlands is. 🤔

[@willemh3319]

that is where we pay tax for

[@blodekont5458]

6:05 ofcourse we are proud of it, but we ourselves don't shout it out to the world like Americans, French or British do.

[@EGO0808]

Oh really? Just look at the Dutch commenting here😂😂😂

[@rikweultjes498]

​@@EGO0808 haha we just pretend like we don't do the thing that we are doing🤣

[@MrSuperMichel1997]

IJssel* Not IJsell

[@HyPnOsS1933]

I think Dutch engineers wanted to Damm of the North Sea And reclaim doggerland Building a Damm from England to Norway And from England to France Bud I think the Russians weren’t happy with that making it impossible for them to enter ocean

[@sirrealreal]

I think we should endeavour into new intelligent projects like these. 21st century netherlands. But we are now stuck with a dumb numb right wing populist bunch of a government. That will set us back instead of being innovative and progressive. We need new ambitieus like these.

[@p4l4d1n7]

too bad our government is all to happy to throw money at stupid things.

[@jopjop9400]

im prety sure its a french saying that goes god created the land exept for the netherlands the dutch stole that from the sea

[@skrie]

The Dutch build the Netherlands just like the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid. A long time ago, no one remembers how it was done and it could never be done again. Right now the best we can do is keep the polders from flooding by keeping the pumps running.

[@hohenstaufen.1010]

That was many many years ago, today the country is dead and wrecked by brussel and now we can’t even survive as a country.

[@keesdenherder9396]

So negative and non-sense. Cooperation with the other 26 EU member states within the European Union is very beneficial for our economy because we are a trading country and very dependend on import and export. Because of the free movement of people and capital within the EU business has grown enormously and the Euro has made trade very easy and reduced costs. I remember the time that you had to go to a money exchange shop before travelling to neighbouring countries. Now you just travel to f.i. Germany and when you need cash you just get it from an ATM in Euro's. Unemployment rate in Netherlands is 3.5%: extremely low and we can run our economy thanks to the help of 900.000 migrant workers, many come from other EU member states (Poland, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria etc.). Agriculture and building & construction would have big problems when we did not have these workers. But also young people from Ireland or the UK or Croatia are working in supermarkets and in restaurants; everybody speaks English.

[@hohenstaufen.1010]

@@keesdenherder9396 it’s good for economy yes but not for the citizens who pays enormous amounts of taxes and enormous amounts of immigrants and other bullshit. We are trading our stuff for centuries and before the eu also. European Union is one big farce and communist bunch of criminals. It’s why we voted two times no !!!

[@jacvanloon4209]

🤙&😎

[@obud3777]

The Netherlands is the most important country in the world. The city of Apeldoorn is the center of the world Apeldoorn = Apola = Apollo