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ClimateWire: For centuries, the Dutch have built higher and higher dikes to keep waters at bay in a country where 55 percent of housing is located in areas prone to flooding. But climate change has convinced them this approach will no longer work, so the country is embarking on a mammoth task of moving dozens of dikes back to make room for swelling rivers.
Now the oldest city in the Netherlands is being hailed for its plans to move the country's biggest river, building more efficient flood defenses and at......
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How the Dutch make ‘room for the river’ by redesigning downtown
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 20th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation