Management and Maintenance of Dikes and Banks

As a low-lying and highly developed country, the Netherlands is continuously facing potential flooding disasters. That’s why we need strong safe water-retaining structures like sea and river-dikes. Moreover half of the country lies below mean high water level. Without dikes more than half of the country would be endangered by flooding. About 60%...

Sea dikes northern part of Vietnam

The coastal areas of Vietnam are repeatedly hit by devastating storms and typhoons. Protective sea dikes are overtopped or breached frequently, with the resulting flooding causing damage to agriculture land, loss of life and crops, and destruction of infrastructure. In the coastal area of the five northern provinces of the Red River Delta, 361...