The Dutch have an old line about themselves, half-joke and half-boast: “God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.” You earn a line like that by taking land off the water and refusing to give it back. And here’s the strange part: the same country that spent centuries draining and diking its way [...] The post For centuries the Dutch took land from the water, but between 2006 and 2019 they spent €2.3 billion deliberately giving rivers more room appeared first on Space Daily .
For centuries the Dutch took land from the water, but between 2006 and 2019 they spent €2.3 billion deliberately giving rivers more room
