- Which country has the best flood control? ... SOME of the best flood defences in the world are to be found in the low-lying coastal country of the Netherlands.
- As part of this effort, Obama sent Shaun Donovan, then secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to the Netherlands to observe Dutch flood-control...
- The Netherlands has one of the best flood control systems in the world, notably through its construction of dykes.
- @inproceedings{Brand2014URBANFC, title={URBAN FLOOD CONTROL IN THE NETHERLANDS: A HISTORY}, author={Nikki Brand}, year={2014} }.
- The Netherlands – protected by levees. Flood protection in The Netherlands (current) Return periods…
- The flood wall is one of many new walls, dikes and dams that have been built in the southern Netherlands as part of a wider series of flood-control projects...
- In lieu of flood control the new philosophy in the Netherlands is controlled flooding.
- Brouwer, R. , & Kind, J. M. (2005). Cost-benefit analysis and flood control policy in The Netherlands .
- About one-third of the Netherlands lies below sea-level with the lowest point being 22 feet (6.7 meters) below sea level.