Cristie BlandfordMan & Humanity MastersThe Netherlands and Water 10/09

Assignment: 5 minute response presentation to visiting LAND OF WATER Zuiderzee Museum

Central Map- Amsterdam NL

Crop intergrated canals... View from sky!

Train Journey- Eindhoven- Enkhuizen NL

Population: 16 million.

‘Everyone in The Netherlands knows how to swim- you have to!’ Annelies Wisse

Rainfall: 880 mm/year Evaporation: 500 mm/year.www.waterland.net

Primary flood defences: 3,500 km in total, consisting of 1,430 km of river dikes, 1,017 km dikes around lakes, and 430 km dikes and 260 km dunes for coastal defence. www.waterland.net

Eindhoven

Amsterdam

Rotterdam

Maastricht

Highest point: +322m Vaalserberg . Lowest point: -6.74m Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel

Two third of the Netherlands would regularly be flooded if there were no dikes.www.waterland.net