Why Doesn’t the Netherlands Let the Ocean Touch the Land?

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @dredknots
    @dredknots Місяць тому +143

    I moved to The Netherlands from London back in 2011. I have not looked back. I feel safe and love living here. The infrastructure is tidy, organised. It's clean and green and the quality of life is superior, even on less pay. It's not perfect, but it's small and mighty. You certainly see what your taxes pay for. Thanks for the education. I love your reporting.

    • @andreamobeck200
      @andreamobeck200 Місяць тому +4

      I love your life and how you appreciate it. ✌️❤

    • @mariano7699
      @mariano7699 Місяць тому +6

      Your profession is shovel handler or pen/keyboard handler ?

    • @ferrynooijen2897
      @ferrynooijen2897 Місяць тому

      Tot jij er achter komt dat onze overheid de dijken heeft opengegraven alvast voor die tristate smartcity Eerst hoemp water overheen laten gaan en daarna opnieuw opbouwen hahaha pak de wagen en ga kijken💀💀💀💀💀

    • @r.ferguson486
      @r.ferguson486 Місяць тому +1

      I’m jealous! I’d love to spend some time there. Congrats on your cool experiences ❤️

    • @XxKamaelxX
      @XxKamaelxX Місяць тому +4

      Sadly alot of Dutch people tend to nag about how bad their own country is. And yeah, there are things that always can be better. But my god they don't realise how well off we are compared to most countries in the world!

  • @MrEIGIS
    @MrEIGIS Місяць тому +63

    I was one of the many workers who helped with water regulating Structures and it is one of its kind. always happy to see these documentaries / explanations.

  • @Ibdidullahi
    @Ibdidullahi Місяць тому +110

    I like this guy he doesn't waste my time

    • @clippx8345
      @clippx8345 Місяць тому

      ​@OneHobbit what did he lie about?

    • @clippx8345
      @clippx8345 Місяць тому +1

      @OneHobbit ohh okay, so he got an animal incorrect about a vid got to do with something entirely different.. Fair enough

    • @nolongerlistless
      @nolongerlistless Місяць тому

      I'd like him better if he didn't shout so much. Why are North Americans so shouty?

    • @DevRel1
      @DevRel1 Місяць тому +3

      Anything to hear him in his real voice. This is the only voiced over narration channel I watch. They actually do an amazing job. English, French Spanish, Russian, are there any more??

    • @madmax298
      @madmax298 Місяць тому +2

      Doesn't waste time, plus he has a very clear voice projection.

  • @rogerelzenga4465
    @rogerelzenga4465 Місяць тому +11

    Man, way to make a Dutchy proud of his heritage ! thanks!

  • @FrankHeuvelman
    @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому +20

    Nice to see someone on UA-cam providing context with a remarkable eye for details.
    No time wasted, no sir!.

    • @yvesfrancoisritmo
      @yvesfrancoisritmo Місяць тому +1

      He has a great channel , this was a great episode

  • @nobodynoonenowhere5609
    @nobodynoonenowhere5609 Місяць тому +27

    WATOP is my top 5s contents that I've watched from start to finish no matter how long the time!🎉🎉😊FYI. Keep up the good work, Steve 👍👍

    • @checksinthemail
      @checksinthemail Місяць тому +2

      Every time! Go WATOP

    • @J.C.73
      @J.C.73 Місяць тому +1

      Watop is top of my list & always very informative & one of the most consistent You think he would run out of things to talk about...but nope he just keeps dropping knowledge.

    • @Rustyrailhead
      @Rustyrailhead Місяць тому

      Yes, and too, desert drifter

  • @c.e.g7448
    @c.e.g7448 Місяць тому +50

    At about the 7:53 mark, you say, "Here you can see the quirky windmills, the same ones that were used to drain flooded marshes. Once there was nothing left to drain, they were repurposed for the more common task of grinding grain."
    I am sorry but this is a wrong assumption. The windmills used to drain the polders were replaced by steam-driven pumps; later, diesel and electric motors were and still are used.
    All polders need pumping stations to keep them dry, now and in the future as well.
    The windmills that were no longer needed were kept as backup for a long time, but it became too expensive to keep maintaining them, so many were simply demolished.
    From some, the "Wings" were taken off, and the mechanism inside was removed. The building was then used for storage, as living space, and so on. This happened to hundreds of them. Only a very small amount of them are still in place, but they don't pump water anymore. Only a very few still have a backup function in water management.
    The windmills used for grinding grains were for 99% purposely built windmills.
    The same goes for oil mills; here they pressed seeds for extracting oils.
    There were sawmills where logs were sawn to lumber.
    There were rope mills where ropes were made.
    The windmills were the "engines" to drive small industries for a very long time, hundreds of years! Most of these windmills have also vanished. Many are demolished; some are repurposed as a small business building, a living space, a shop, or a storage place.
    The main function of almost all windmills that you will find here now is preserving history and tourist attraction.

  • @TheRealTMar
    @TheRealTMar Місяць тому +8

    I hear you mentioning Kim Cohen, I know him from uni! He was a student teacher then. A lot of Dutch scientists are involved with our unique geography and how to manage water here. I love how you do a lot of in depth research for your videos and that's why they're absolutely amazing!

  • @dannyzwain85
    @dannyzwain85 Місяць тому +10

    As a Dutch i want to say, nice work with the video.
    seing this documentarie makes me proud to be dutch.

  • @ErilynOfAnachronos
    @ErilynOfAnachronos Місяць тому +23

    Fun fact:
    In Almere (largest city in Flevoland) we made a lake named Weerwater, which means it's water again. 😁

    • @JaapGinder
      @JaapGinder Місяць тому +8

      Had beter 'Alweerwater' kunnen heten. 🤣

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому +3

      @@JaapGinder
      Of Nualweerwater?

  • @lorettaross2007
    @lorettaross2007 Місяць тому +51

    The Dutch seem to be smart! Instead of fighting with their neighbors for land, they just made their own! Not without problems Tho! Another great video, thank you! See you in the next one!

    • @ROTTERDXM
      @ROTTERDXM Місяць тому +6

      We actually have some more of this extra land now, near the port of Rotterdam. They expanded the land near the Rhine delta outward into the sea. It's called "Maasvlakte 2".

    • @MarcelNL
      @MarcelNL Місяць тому +2

      Dutch guy here and I am smart enough to watch a lot of the videos on this channel to expand my knowledge! ;-)

    • @lorettaross2007
      @lorettaross2007 Місяць тому

      @@MarcelNL

    • @lorettaross2007
      @lorettaross2007 Місяць тому

      I guess my remark was a no no, so I will repeat the first part! I will bet your smarter than that! I know what you mean about this channel!

    • @lorettaross2007
      @lorettaross2007 Місяць тому +1

      @@ROTTERDXM I do have one question, where are they getting the dirt to fill in?

  • @robreiken
    @robreiken Місяць тому +12

    Now i know why the Netherlands are the worlds best experts at building Levies

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому

      The Netherlands is our country's name but we as a people are called the Dutch.
      No offense though, just mentioning.

  • @Markwjansen
    @Markwjansen Місяць тому +3

    Actually the 7th wonder of the world was the Delta Works, the flood defenses in the southwest of the country. Flevoland and the Afsluitdijk are part of the Zuiderzee works, a separate project that overlapped with the Delta Works in timeline.

  • @LordNecron
    @LordNecron Місяць тому +2

    Brown algae are used for dissolving wound dressings (dry and toughish when packaged up and sterile, but turning into sludge when filling with wound secretions, also moistening the wound and preventing rubbing), green algae are good as food, same as red algae.

  • @thebob1337
    @thebob1337 Місяць тому +2

    I was amazed that you called out my city's name "Enschede" and the uplands you mention, they are actually around the corner of my house. Pass by it every day and never thought it was that special. Now i do know they are! Thank you for teaching me something today!

  • @Hiddensecret9
    @Hiddensecret9 Місяць тому +6

    With rising sea levels due to climate change, the Netherlands is doubling down on its water management efforts. The Dutch are combining traditional methods with modern technology, like flexible flood defenses and "Room for the River" projects, which allow controlled flooding to reduce pressure on other areas.

    • @seesharp81321
      @seesharp81321 Місяць тому

      The Delta works have nothing to do with climate change. That project was implemented after the great flooding of 1953. We're not concerned

  • @jenniferlindsey2015
    @jenniferlindsey2015 Місяць тому +11

    One of the most impressive topics you’ve covered. If only other developed nations would take a few pages from their playbook. Particularly when it comes to climate change.

    • @keithfrazier2558
      @keithfrazier2558 Місяць тому

      Filling areas of fresh water will affect climate change. That water has to go somewhere. Mostly in the ocean reducing salinity which affect gulf stream, ocean current, and ocean levels.

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      ​​@@keithfrazier2558the zuiderzee is now because rivers filled it with freshwater, roughly the same amount of water gets to the sea compared with what it was. The desalination has climate effects, the zuiderzee did had a good amount of trouble with it, but nothing too bad, dont even think the sea got mch effected at all, but tbf i didnt read too much research on that part inparticulair

  • @roysiesimon7529
    @roysiesimon7529 27 днів тому +1

    Great video, I love the Netherlands. They should ensure that all families of the Netherlands have boats for safety🙏❤️

  • @abbasosaurus7875
    @abbasosaurus7875 Місяць тому +16

    Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ❤️

    • @denniskiewiet422
      @denniskiewiet422 Місяць тому +4

      I wish we Dutch would do more to help Bangladesh. Our nations would be awesome together.

    • @denniskiewiet422
      @denniskiewiet422 Місяць тому

      @@OneHobbit Op basis van welke informatie word ik beoordeeld als "Niet Goed"?

    • @denniskiewiet422
      @denniskiewiet422 Місяць тому

      @@OneHobbit "Dutch rapper full name Ricky Brown! Living in Amsterdam. Got bars got flows" - You.
      Ah.
      Het is de orginele Amsterdamse taal
      Zonder bekakte `r` maar ouderwets normaal
      Dus lul maar lekker slap als het om een e *** ie gaat
      Hier in Amsterdam zegt iedereen je waar het op staat!
      (toen er nog echte rappers waren in Amsterdam)

  • @prosmack
    @prosmack Місяць тому +29

    You are a brave man attempting all them pronounciations.

  • @urbandiscount
    @urbandiscount Місяць тому +6

    IN discussing the 1953 flood you show the Afsluitdijk in the north that wasn't breached. But the flood was in Zeeland and Zuid Holland.

    • @erik.3
      @erik.3 Місяць тому

      Iets met de klok en de klepel.....

  • @youserawaiting3876
    @youserawaiting3876 Місяць тому +3

    Another error: when explaining polders and mentioning draining lakes the video actually shows an animation of using landfill to level up a lake. Polders are indeed drained, not filled up - ground zero is what was the lake bottom.

  • @bastian775
    @bastian775 Місяць тому +3

    7:20 Attempt translating this to English is something like:
    The use of tullip bulbs.
    Tulip bulbs are suitable to use as food. They have a high starch content. Depending on the kind they have a slight aftertaste. (I think it says something like this, it contains typos:) boiled they are more or less mealy of consistency. This is why it is not possible to determine the weight of how many tulip bulbs you should use for certain recipes.
    Cleaning the tulip bulbs.
    Peel the tulip bulbs, cut them in half and remove the yellow (sprout?) and the hard and unsound parts.
    Soup with tulip bulbs
    1 liter of water, 1 onion, 4 of 5 tulip bulbs, aroma, salt, 1 tea spoon of oil. curry surrogate.
    chop the onion and fruit it together with the oil and curry surrogate until it is light brown.
    add the water and the aroma. start boiling the soup.
    grate the cleaned tulip bulbs above the boiling liquid
    while stirring continue to boil and add taste with some salt.

    • @andreamobeck200
      @andreamobeck200 Місяць тому

      Fascinating, thank you!

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому +1

      We even had a company that build IBM pc clones called 'TULIP' during the eighties.

  • @OVTraveller
    @OVTraveller Місяць тому +3

    Curiously, whilst my forebears are known for draining most of the lakes to create polders; in the last 50 years many of the dales between the sand dunes north of The Hague have been flooded to create water reservoirs to provide potable water by pumping Rhine water through the filtrating sands.

  • @beckypennington79
    @beckypennington79 Місяць тому +4

    This was a very nice video. I appreciate that it was very informative and inspiring. So much in this country today we do not have inspiration and appreciate when we can get it thank you

  • @rickradix6174
    @rickradix6174 Місяць тому +5

    The Dutch figured out how to work with nature, not against it. That's really hard to balance, especially when it comes to wildlife. Learning is not easy sometimes. Their innovation will help the planet.

  • @catstravaganza564
    @catstravaganza564 26 днів тому

    Somehow I was UNSUB'd by UA-cam? So I re SUB'd and really enjoying the change of direction, and at least I have a lot of catching up to do, but I really do like the change in content, I do like your animal info but this among other drops I have seen have peaked a whole new interest in WATOP so glad to see you go with the flow and stay fresh!

  • @kosmosXcannon
    @kosmosXcannon Місяць тому +5

    I'm not Dutch but am American. So I probably have no idea what is going on, but it I heard the Dutch government seems to be in a bit of a war with it's farmers. Sounded like the government wanted to retake some of the farmland in an attempt to reduce immersions from cow farts or at least that was the reason given by the government. Some people think the government wanted to reclaim the land to put in a new residential area to put people in. One of the uses for the residential area people thought it could be some sort of financial hub.
    So after knowing how proud the Dutch are with their farming, I could see why some farmers would be mad at losing land to the government to then have it transformed into a new city.

    • @RaphaelSwinkels
      @RaphaelSwinkels Місяць тому

      hey kosmosXcannon, for being overseas your are right on all accounts except the, removing farmers build city's part, they want to give the land back to nature, because its planned to reduce co2 emissions, and what do plants do? exactly, it covenverts co2 to ho2. sounds good but what is more importent food or ho2? if you interested, and maybe you have read the plans already search for tri-statecity. ow i'm dutch, even most dutch dont know the complete picture.. so respect for knowing 99% of the facts from oversees. reallly

    • @hunchbackaudio
      @hunchbackaudio Місяць тому +9

      It's not a war with farmers really. It's a tiny country so farming needs to be regulated well and the government failed to do that for several decades. It's not really about the land, it's more the giant livestock that puts too much strain on nature and surface waters. This got to a point where we start running into limits and the government had no option than to reverse their long time policy and that's making the famers mad, because they put a lot of investment into their business. So it's a combination of bad regulation and farmers that missed the writings on the wall, basically. Now they voted a new government that thinks business can continue as usual, just ignore the facts and go on. We'll see where that takes us, probably even more disappointment when reality kicks in. Nature can be pretty stubborn.

    • @florisv559
      @florisv559 Місяць тому

      @@hunchbackaudio Good summary, but you forgot that the farmers took their job of feeding the world rather too seriously - the Netherlands are one of the main exporters of food, largely dairy and meat. We seem to have more than twice as many chickens for meat in this country than humans, and some 11 million pigs for 18 million humans. And those beasts don't only produce meat.

    • @hunchbackaudio
      @hunchbackaudio Місяць тому

      @@florisv559 Farming is a business and upscaling is good for business and good business means happy voters, so there you go. It’s not only the massive output, but if some scary disease breaks out between millions of animals in a small place and it crosses to people, we’re literally in deep shite and that’s not a matter off but when. Sadly politicians can look no further than the next election.

    • @florisv559
      @florisv559 Місяць тому

      @@hunchbackaudio I know most of that, but didn't want to write a novel. ;=)

  • @kimbrey65
    @kimbrey65 Місяць тому +8

    I remember, when I was little, reading a story about a boy who came across a dike with a hole in it. He was able to stop the leak by putting his finger in the hole. I don't remember the whole story but I do remember that.

    • @djangoprovenzano9804
      @djangoprovenzano9804 Місяць тому +1

      Neeltje jans?

    • @roelofschuldink4177
      @roelofschuldink4177 Місяць тому +8

      Hansje Brinkeris a story from an American writer who never visited the Netherlands. As any Dutch will tell you it’s pure fiction.

    • @hipperdanhop2877
      @hipperdanhop2877 Місяць тому +1

      Great story i wish it was true

    • @pinchebruha405
      @pinchebruha405 Місяць тому

      Pretty much a metaphor for how politicians who vote for a quick fix and everyone cheers meanwhile the problems being held back are just getting bigger and bigger!

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому

      @@pinchebruha405
      That's a pretty accurate observation.
      We've learned that personal well being as a people is more important than gaining personal wealth. No keeping up with the Joneses over here. Just mutual respect.

  • @AnyAni-Animals
    @AnyAni-Animals Місяць тому +14

    wow, what an impressive history of land reclamation! The dedication to agriculture and protecting the environment is remarkable. I love how the Netherlands continues to find solutions to global challenges like water conservation and climate change

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter Місяць тому

      The Netherlands has no solution to climate change and has no climate change to deal with. Many Dutch are paying for climate indulgances though.

  • @mickeydew1896
    @mickeydew1896 Місяць тому +1

    Nice video, appreciate your slightly sarcastic tone while reporting. Small point of critique some of the floating home shots were definitely US homes, while others were Dutch for sure. Don’t know if this one slid by or perhaps it was a challenge finding nice footage?
    Anyways, did like it!!

  • @Ernoiserniet
    @Ernoiserniet Місяць тому +1

    I'm in the Netherlands because of reasons. Definitely one of the best countries to grow up in. Even living with the constant fear of the sea taking back it's real estate.

  • @SukhdevSingh-ge5rj
    @SukhdevSingh-ge5rj Місяць тому +2

    Great 😃😃👍👍 video 😊😊 from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

  • @retrohollandia
    @retrohollandia Місяць тому +9

    If you want to pronounce "zuiderzee" the closest thing you could easily do for the "ui" part, is go with the "ou" sound from the word "sound". It's still not spot on, but it's much less jarring than the "oi" sound used here.
    I don't blame you though, the "ui" it's an unfamiliar sound in English. I couldn't even think of a close equivalent to it.

    • @mfversluis
      @mfversluis Місяць тому +1

      the French word for eye (oeil) comes very close

    • @retrohollandia
      @retrohollandia Місяць тому +1

      @mfversluis Sure but I was thinking in the context of what a native English speaker would be familliar with.

    • @mfversluis
      @mfversluis Місяць тому +1

      ​@@retrohollandia That was clear and you're right (as far as know) that in native English nothing comes close to "ui".
      I did a post on his attempt on Schouwen-Duiveland (even tougher) and even needed Spanish besides French to show the pronunciation.
      As French and Spanish is taught in several countries as an extra language, I hope it helps at least those to understand the pronunciation

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 Місяць тому +1

      I was told the "ui" sound is unique in the world. A pity for foreigners, as it is used widely in Dutch.

  • @DaxPegels
    @DaxPegels Місяць тому +4

    As a dutch guy... i like how you pronounce the names.

    • @raphdroidt692
      @raphdroidt692 Місяць тому +3

      Skuwen Doewie VenLand. Priceless😂

    • @DaxPegels
      @DaxPegels Місяць тому +1

      @raphdroidt692 yes! But I gotta say he's not that bad and he tries to say it in the Dutch way and I think that is pretty dope.

    • @gjBackBone
      @gjBackBone Місяць тому +1

      ​@@raphdroidt692I was searching for a comment to make sense of what place he mentioned, now I get it. Schouwen Duiveland

  • @flw9633
    @flw9633 26 днів тому

    Very informative. Thank you!

  • @ashleycnossen3157
    @ashleycnossen3157 20 днів тому

    As someone of Frisian descent, I appreciate the shout out

  • @StijnDoesStuff
    @StijnDoesStuff 17 днів тому

    I feel honored to be a part of 14 million people that were born here and didnt move in. Even though its a struggle to go to school sometimes because the wind here is very unpredictable

  • @MrKassim64
    @MrKassim64 5 днів тому

    Very intelligent and hard working people

  • @azulceleste2646
    @azulceleste2646 Місяць тому

    "The Ocean Cleanup" is another wonderful water project, invented and started by the Dutch student Boyan Slat.

  • @lijjil2951
    @lijjil2951 Місяць тому

    I’m sorry, for saying that. I thought you were saying something different and was having a rough day. Love your content !

  • @Nick-qy3hu
    @Nick-qy3hu Місяць тому +2

    Anonymity is fine. Your content is good. 🙂

  • @MinerBat
    @MinerBat 28 днів тому

    i wish we still did this, currently there are no active plans for large scale land creation in the netherlands

  • @gjBackBone
    @gjBackBone Місяць тому

    The issue of summer droughts is one of conflicting interests. We do have the ability to keep the groundwater levels high enough, but that has a conflict of interest with agriculture, because they prefer to groundwater level to be lower in the spring for better yields. You can't magically raise the groundwater levels. So in the summer we're more dependent on rainfall than we'd have to be.

  • @ironhardt8359
    @ironhardt8359 3 дні тому

    This cat does some really good videos people. Help him out and "LIKE".

  • @StanFischer-h5w
    @StanFischer-h5w Місяць тому +1

    So much information to ingest and it overloads my brain😂

  • @lenyvanbeers8052
    @lenyvanbeers8052 Місяць тому +4

    We have no ocean ,we have a sea.

    • @jonbinki9651
      @jonbinki9651 Місяць тому

      its all the same connected water you dickweed

  • @TeleshitNL
    @TeleshitNL 22 дні тому

    I love it when Americans talk about my country 🥰🥰

  • @MultiTipsie
    @MultiTipsie Місяць тому

    I see you did your homework! Respect! 🙏

  • @DatoxSound
    @DatoxSound Місяць тому

    Me As a living person in Flevoland. You did your research exelend! well explained! and that all in 21 minutes xD

  • @treezybeats602
    @treezybeats602 29 днів тому

    Editing skills is on point

  • @hiddentruth1982
    @hiddentruth1982 Місяць тому +1

    Flevapoulder sounds like flood plain. That would be fitting considering what it is.

    • @therealdutchidiot
      @therealdutchidiot Місяць тому +4

      Except it isn't, especially because it can't flood thanks to the Afsluitdijk. Flevopolder was named after the Roman name the polder was built in: Lacus Flevo. One of iets major cities (Almere) is named after the name the Dutch gave iafter (Almaere). Only after a number of floods the lake was connected to the sea and renamed Zuiderzee. The Afsluitdijk turned it back into a lake (IJsselmeer) named after the river that feeds the lake (IJssel).

  • @umii13
    @umii13 28 днів тому

    So much agriculture yet every thing food related still crazily expensive!

  • @oogieboogie1578
    @oogieboogie1578 Місяць тому +1

    Im glad to see that kakashi found a new job now that naruto isnt so popular anymore

  • @joaquimioakim229
    @joaquimioakim229 Місяць тому +3

    Dutch engineers drained water from an area in Cambridgeshire called the Fens a few centuries ago.
    Rebels who lost their livelihood used to sabotage their dams & dykes, they were called the Fenland Tigers
    Today there is a city in the area named Ely, it used to be an island called the Island of Eels, hence the cities name, eel fishing was its main industry and by draining the land a lot of people lost their livelihoods
    Today the Fens are still water free, apart from the canals and dyke and as far as I’m aware has some very big pumping stations and sluice gates to stop the area from flooding .

  • @SunnyRosalia
    @SunnyRosalia Місяць тому +2

    My home province 😎🇳🇱!

    • @MarcelNL
      @MarcelNL Місяць тому +1

      I prefer to stay in the east of the country.
      Went from Gelderland to Overijssel, back to Gelderland and I now live in Drenthe.

  • @sneakerhead721
    @sneakerhead721 Місяць тому

    me, watching this video from Almere Flevoland great stuff

  • @alexsamaniego9061
    @alexsamaniego9061 Місяць тому

    wow. its amazing what humanity can do when we work together. also eating tulips sounds wild to me.

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому

      Tulips were emergency food only, ever.

  • @bettyharrison9537
    @bettyharrison9537 Місяць тому +1

    Isn't the soil reclaimed from the sea too salty for farming food crops?

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому +1

      That's why reeds are sown in mass to take up salinity for years and used as the basis to build up new soil first.
      I'll still have to take a deeper dive before I fully understand the process but I know that part. Seems to work fine.
      In Permaculture there's a saying "Any problem in the world can be solved in a garden". Something akin to that...

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      Andyes, thats why mostly grass and tulips are grown there (grass goes to cows to make much of the well known dutch cheeses)

  • @petercederpark3637
    @petercederpark3637 Місяць тому

    That's the expertise of the Netherlands,. they possess the high-end technology in road and water ways by The experience of the flood in 1953, they develop through those years an outstanding technology. The farmer even more has built the agriculture of the Netherlands who become one of the greatest world export of agriculture product. So, leave the farmers alone, don't take away their land or companies..

  • @skumsters2323
    @skumsters2323 28 днів тому

    The dutch are crazy
    love from Rotterdamn man

  • @Lindy98
    @Lindy98 Місяць тому

    Thank you!

  • @wietseterpstra8295
    @wietseterpstra8295 Місяць тому

    The Markermeer was in 1932 just a part of the Zuiderzee, they built the afsluitdijk and so created the IJsselmeer the Markermeer is created in 1978 by building a dike with road from Enkhuizen to Lelystad the intention was to polder that area (pump it dry) but that never happened.

  • @ericmiddelbos129
    @ericmiddelbos129 Місяць тому

    nice to see, i life in the nederlands. 🙂 see you next time

  • @buumi3
    @buumi3 Місяць тому

    Nice vid. I enjoyed it.
    I live in the provence Flevoland.

  • @workinabroad
    @workinabroad Місяць тому

    "I survived the hungriest times" needs to be my new saying. 😂

  • @TrevyBurgess
    @TrevyBurgess Місяць тому

    The real reason the Dutch grows tulips - Amazing. I never knew that. Perhaps I will grow tulips next year in the front yard. I wonder what they taste like.

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому

      They taste bad! They only ever served as emergency food to avoid starvation.
      My mom still had gagging reflexes thinking back. Besides, potatoes will yield better.

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      I allways thought we made tulips because grass and tulips are the only profitable things that grow on the salty reclaimed land

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому +1

      @@larsrademakers6070 True, but it seems to change with time.
      I suspect organic matter and fungal networks play a significant role in this.
      I'll study some more on this subject and share anything of interest here.

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      @@mourlyvold64 tbf ofcorse it changes with time, what i said was more historically based

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому

      @@larsrademakers6070 In case I hit a nerve somehow: no offence was intended, sir.

  • @snithickm773
    @snithickm773 Місяць тому +2

    i live in flevoland and there is a lot of water canals here

  • @Devennr1
    @Devennr1 27 днів тому

    Im a person from dutch they are good at them i always say "we are always at wat, at war with the water"

  • @StonedCherry1
    @StonedCherry1 Місяць тому

    Love your content, could you bring back Steve character

  • @DS-xd9iu
    @DS-xd9iu Місяць тому

    There's a doc called "het zinkende land" also on UA-cam, which gives some other insights.

  • @erikabee3498
    @erikabee3498 28 днів тому

    minute 13: 30. Yes in this case there is the assumption that we from the Netherlands all have forgotten the knowledge from century's ago.
    And in the future no one cares or invests in Watermanagement knowledge. Well our King himself (57 years old now), is Mr Watermanagement him self.
    And at least one of his 3 daughters wants to do a study, that has interfaces with the study her father. So I think this water management will last for a few more decades.

  • @Loveyou-bb9bg
    @Loveyou-bb9bg Місяць тому +1

    Most Dutch people have a swimming diploma! And manny more than one!

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      I personally have 6, but 3 or 4 seems to be average (though probably going down since swimming lessons seem to be to expensive for some parents)

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 Місяць тому

      @@larsrademakers6070 Wow, I have only 2. Attempted the third (C) but I could not bring myself diving up those items from the bottom of the swimming pool. Some kind of primordial fear.

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      @@ronaldderooij1774 tbf i did "zwemvaardigheid" 1-2-3, and started speed swimming matches right after 😅

    • @FrankHeuvelman
      @FrankHeuvelman Місяць тому

      Don't forget our children's traffic exam to learn how to safely ride a bicycle to school and back without steering into one of our many, many canals and creeks.

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      @FrankHeuvelman tbf, i cycled to school from age 7, the bike exam was at age 12 😅😂

  • @dagramirez
    @dagramirez 23 дні тому

    Who else wants a cup of coffee when WATOP says “ first a cup of coffee “ 😂

  • @popoha4380
    @popoha4380 Місяць тому +1

    "How do we get the carbon out the air?"
    Netherlanders look at Seaweed. "We shall eat it!"

  • @RiggyRonnie
    @RiggyRonnie 28 днів тому

    They lucky they don’t get hurricanes, can’t pull this off in Florida

  • @M335h1
    @M335h1 25 днів тому

    Seaweed also made sushi into the icon we know today! 😋

  • @frenchykush1836
    @frenchykush1836 Місяць тому +1

    Matthew Santoro stop it 5😂

  • @Czar_B
    @Czar_B Місяць тому +2

    Nice pronaunciation, it is very good

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому

      🙂 Not really, but the effort is apreciated.

  • @rothed16
    @rothed16 Місяць тому

    This dude is Amazing. Putting out so many great videos daily or so. One of the best YT Channels! 2 Likes if i could ❤

  • @shaneg9081
    @shaneg9081 Місяць тому +2

    You think flevopolder is the last province? As if the Dutch have made peace with the sea and will not continue with their conquest? So long as the sea continues its reprisals the Dutch will fight. No one can say this will be the last bit of land they conquer from their oldest enemy. Until the sea admits that it is the inferior to the Dutch, they will will fight on and push the sea back.

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 Місяць тому

      Not so. There are no plans for new land reclamations. In fact, all plans are now purely defensive because of rising sea levels. I don't think we will survive the next two centuries, sadly.

  • @mfversluis
    @mfversluis Місяць тому

    14:03 A brave but amusing attempt to pronounce Schouwen-Duiveland.
    No directly similar sounds in Englisch for the "ch" and the "ui"
    The closest for the "ch" will be like the Spanish pronounce the "j" and the closest for the "ui" is the French word "oeil"

  • @bernardkuiper1496
    @bernardkuiper1496 Місяць тому

    If you've seen xkcd's "What If?", you know that the oceans will drain and we reclaim all of the land. We will finally have won our battle against the sea!

  • @serktv6231
    @serktv6231 Місяць тому

    That is why it's named Netherlands
    In dutch it translates literally to LowLand/underneath land. Because it's land below sealevel😅

  • @abytheecat
    @abytheecat Місяць тому

    He so politely asked for a like, this is the first time someone asked and I actually did it

  • @queenknow
    @queenknow Місяць тому

    What’s the government website you mentioned?

  • @tehNashty
    @tehNashty Місяць тому +1

    Actually, no. I do not owe you a like.
    But, I did enjoy it, so I did all of the things!
    Thank you and you are welcome!!!

  • @odarrien
    @odarrien Місяць тому

    How does so much of a country be below sea level? Is it a matter of the land being submerged based on high and low tide? Or reclaimed land from the sea where the land is still below sea level but 'barricaded' with levees and sea walls etc?

    • @anouk6644
      @anouk6644 Місяць тому

      Yes to the second part. The land below sea level, the ‘polders’, are protected by levees and dikes. Pumps keep the water out that continuously wants to seep in (through groundwater). Windmills used to do that before the invention of engines.

  • @leoncoard2676
    @leoncoard2676 Місяць тому +1

    Somehow I think I learned something new again. Why does that keep happening? lol

  • @Ken_Adams80
    @Ken_Adams80 Місяць тому

    An old Dutch proverb says: „Niet aanraken anders klappen“

  • @j.lodewijksdomstad
    @j.lodewijksdomstad Місяць тому

    And still we are creating new land...Watch us in the next twenty years.we makes the palm islands in Dubai and helping nations world wide to keep them save from the Rising oceans....proud to be Dutch....

  • @mariano7699
    @mariano7699 Місяць тому +1

    Dredging the sea doesn't damage the sea flora and creates more water vortex and fragile coastline ?🌊

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому +1

      It does, that's why (as mentioned) so many projects are developed to compensate for loss of nature.
      Btw, the land that was used to build your house on or serves as the freeway you drive on lost it's flora as well.

  • @M335h1
    @M335h1 25 днів тому

    Yea, as a Michigander I have faith in the Dutch, they’ll just pull the Netherlands back up 😅 you know that song tubthumping? That’s Dutch energy with land and sea😅

  • @mrbaab5932
    @mrbaab5932 Місяць тому +1

    The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is secretly working ⚒ on bringing back all of Doggerland to make the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the largest country in Europe by land area again.

  • @VenteinX
    @VenteinX Місяць тому

    Please have a cup of coffee on the table it's really messing with me😢

  • @farshadmn4273
    @farshadmn4273 Місяць тому

    you forgot to show their animal husbandry and related technologies!

  • @Dinomoster
    @Dinomoster Місяць тому

    day number 1 asking Watop to talk about Venezuela🇻🇪

  • @RPSchonherr
    @RPSchonherr Місяць тому +2

    They created it by holding the water back. It will return to the water.

    • @Appel1989
      @Appel1989 Місяць тому

      True and nature will take back the entire world. What are you trying to say?

    • @larsrademakers6070
      @larsrademakers6070 Місяць тому

      Maybe in a while, for now we have more dry land then 100 years ago, and back then they had more dryland then 100 years before that

  • @keithfrazier2558
    @keithfrazier2558 Місяць тому

    Filling in areas of fresh water couldn't possibly have an affect on ocean levels or salinity and ocean currents....

    • @mourlyvold64
      @mourlyvold64 Місяць тому

      The Zuiderzee was a lake before, replenished with sweet water by the river IJssel. It only became part of the sea after a series of floods in the early middle ages that swept large chunks of land separating it from the Wadden-sea. Basically the Dutch restored it to the 'original', and renamed it IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake).

  • @eigenlijkisdatheellogisch
    @eigenlijkisdatheellogisch Місяць тому

    The earth turns its own circle
    For millions of years
    Animals and plants
    Coming and going
    Evolution
    Sun, Planets, Stars and Moon
    The earth adjusts itself again and again
    to these celestial bodies
    This is exactly what causes climate changes