Consequences of floods : visits to other countries

As a part of the Delft Cluster-project? Consequences of floods? several visits has been made to other countries to learn from their experiences during floods and their consequences. Visits were made to Prague in December 2002, Cambridge in March 2003 and Dresden in April 2003. the reason of these visits was the possibility to collect quantifying data of floods, which could be used for validation of the models made in the project. In general it can be concluded that it is difficult to collect data of recent floods due to the fact that the data is still spread over different authorities. However, valuable information about the consequences of floods has been gathered which is described in this report.