Watermanagement in the Netherlands

This booklet describes water management and water distribution in the Netherlands as well as the problms related to flooding, water shortages, safety, drought and salination. The description of our water management system includes a short history of the geological creation of the Netherlands and an account of the interventions that took place over the centuries to protect the country from highvolume river discharges or storm tides. Land reclamation and other hydraulic engineering projects, such as the excavation of channels to the sea the canalisation of rivers, are briefly discussed.