The Crazy Story of how Netherlands Retrieved Submerged Land from Floods [Europe - 2]

The Crazy Story of how Netherlands Retrieved Submerged Land from Floods. Through some intelligent engineering techniques and applications, the Netherlands still manages to stay afloat and not sink. This project started several years ago but still keeps improving. The Dutch have blazed the trail in sea defense systems.
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Timecodes
0:00 - Introduction
1:24 - The History of The Netherlands
3:07 - The Delta Committee
4:08 - Economic Motivation of the Delta Works Project
5:06 - Dams, Dikes, Underground Canals and Polders
6:54 - Storm Surge Barrier
8:40 - Ship Tunnel in Norway

[@XCELEwithEmmy]

God built the world, the Dutch built the Netherlands 🇳🇱, interesting!

[@stanleyOv]

This a testament to the Dutch people's ingenuity and determination in dealing with the challenges posed by water...gotta subscribe already😀, NICE!

[@randyet]

Glad you enjoyed it and subscribed. Please keep sharing and coming back.

[@kwawuviwisdom6231]

Really eye opening

[@brightseglah68]

Great !! Ghana should learn from them to prevent these rampant floods in the Volta region .

[@randar1969]

The government of Ghana is welcome to send some students this way so they can be teached how, it's not that those technologies are a secret. They do however demand large investments and that's something Ghana has to decide if it's worth it.

[@tracytenkorang1101]

This is so insightful! I love how you delve into the history to explain everything- it just puts the entire reasoning into perspective! Thanks for sharing!

[@randyet]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

@@randyet He didn't delve into anything; he just rattled about things he thought he knew but in fact didn't know anything about.

[@randyet]

@@klaasvanmanen8214sorry this video didn’t meet your expectations. I’ll try to make my videos even more informative next time. But in the mean time, kindly check my most previous video. That may change your mind perhaps.

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

@@randyet That's way too easy, stating that my expectations were the cause for me disliking the video. Yes, I _expect_ that someone who creates a video does some proper research before bringing things as facts. So yes, your video did not meet my expectations but wouldn't you think that no one of your viewers would like it when they discover that you made things up? The St Elisabeth's flood of 1421 was a disaster but not the start of the Dutch cooperation against the sea. The Delta Works were not intended to increase the area available for housing and agriculture, and I could increase the list of major errors you made.

[@tracytenkorang1101]

@@klaasvanmanen8214 interesting add-ons. However, I disagree and will advise you to cross-check your information before criticizing. If you listened attentively to the video, the St. Elizabeth flood of 1421 wasn't the only reason behind the Netherlands' fight against the sea. Rather, the 1421 flood together with the 1953 flood were the major motivating factors behind the Netherlands' reaction amongst other negative effects of the floods. The resulting benefits of these engineering responses will definitely result in creating available lands free from the sea's invasion which will be used for other "economic" purposes as stated in the video - Construction of roads, housing, agriculture, etc. are all economic purposes - so where is the error? Seeing that you have so much knowledge on the history of this topic, can you share the KZbin video you recorded on this subject which reveals the "facts" you have? I'd be happy to hear what your research discovered which debunks what is stated in this video.

[@marcovonkeman9449]

Tunnels for ships are anything but a novelty. You'll find a lot of them in both England and France. The one under construction in Norway may be bigger and in some ways more demanding to build and operate, but they're not the first.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

It was only the 1953 floods that got the Delta works going, not the st Elizabeth flood. And not the entire country was flooded in 1953, but only parts of Zeeland and Zuid-Holland provinces. Furthermore you need to distinguish between polders and delta works. Delta works are for defence only, to prevent flooding. Polders are offensive, they reclaim land from (mostly) inland lakes. Notable exception is the Afsluitdijk that served both purposes. Defence and facilitate land reclamation in the IJsselmeer. The resulted in the 12th province, Flevoland that is 99,9% reclaimed land from the IJsselmeer. Polders have been made since the 15th century, sea and river defences since the second half of the 20th century.

[@tomhermens7698]

@ronaldderooij1774 right. Delta works came well after the flooding. Floods came as far as the sluice protecting Utrecht.

[@peterhoulihan9766]

*dutch

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

You actually have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Citing the St Elisabeth flooding of 1421, showing images of Queen Juliana visiting Zeeland in 1953, as a cause for the Netherlands for improving on their resilience against flooding in general, clearly misses the point completely. It took several hundreds of years more before these national goals were set. A second point: the Deltawerken were never meant for increasing the country's area for agriculture and housing: they were meant to improve the safety of the people inhabiting areas that already existed. You will have to go to the Afsluitdijk and the Flevopolders in order to say something about reclaiming areas that used to be occupied by sea water. If you want to expose yourself as a non-informed person when creating these videos, then please go on the way you do. If you want to show you're well informed, then please do some proper research before creating a video.

[@JasperJanssen]

Dude. Have you heard of the concept of constructive criticism? I’ve seen better researched videos, for sure, but you’re just being an asshole here. Particularly when you’re going after someone with 321 subscribers (well, 322 now), who is clearly at the early stages of their KZbin career.

[@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748]

Actually plan Lely was both. But the primary idea was to defend against the floods by shortening the coastline. The Delta Works shut off the inlet arms of Zeeland, shortened over 700km of coastline. And reducing that to about 15km.

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

@@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748 After the above comment was criticized by some gullible viewer for being too picky, I gave a much longer reply in which I explained what was really going on with the Dutch waterworks. But that reply got deleted, most likely by the owner of this channel who didn't like being criticized at all. So now people are likely to keep on repeating that the Saint Elisabeth Flood was a turning point in Dutch history while all the Dutch did at that point was accept the disaster with resignation. People just very much like to repeat what they think they already know, like the phrase 'God built the world, the Dutch built the Netherlands', which is a completely empty statement. I mean: between the Saint Elisabeth Flood (1421) and the Watersnoodramp (1953) is a period of over five centuries! As if nothing happened in the Low Countries between these two events. Like indeed protecting the shores of the Zuiderzee from flooding.