UK Can Learn from Netherlands’ Response to Rising Waters

With winter flooding still a recent memory across much of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands is taking a different approach in response to rising floodwaters. “Hard-won reclaimed land–polders–are being given back to rivers and meanders are being cut back into flood plains, all as part of a back-to-nature approach that is reversing centuries of battling against water, in favour of finding ways to live with it,” The Guardian reports. Discussions with local landowners have been going on for more than a decade, and “the intensification of downpours by climate change is the underlying reason.” (h/t to eCO2 Greetings)