The Netherlands kept losing its battle against rising floods that swamped towns and farmland, then it spent billions to give rivers more space, and now the experiment is protecting millions of lives | World News
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July 14, 2026
The Netherlands has spent much of its history trying to control rivers with taller dykes and stronger flood barriers. But repeated floods in the 1990s showed that simply building bigger walls was no longer enough. Rising river levels, increased rainfall…