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.
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💀💀💀💀💀
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!
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.
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??
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.
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.
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!
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!
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".
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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!
@@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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
@@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
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
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.
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).
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 .
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...
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..
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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!
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?
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.
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....
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.
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😅
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is secretly working ⚒ on bringing back all of Doggerland to make the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the largest country in Europe by land area again.
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).
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
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.
I love your life and how you appreciate it. ✌️❤
Your profession is shovel handler or pen/keyboard handler ?
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💀💀💀💀💀
I’m jealous! I’d love to spend some time there. Congrats on your cool experiences ❤️
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!
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.
I like this guy he doesn't waste my time
@OneHobbit what did he lie about?
@OneHobbit ohh okay, so he got an animal incorrect about a vid got to do with something entirely different.. Fair enough
I'd like him better if he didn't shout so much. Why are North Americans so shouty?
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??
Doesn't waste time, plus he has a very clear voice projection.
Man, way to make a Dutchy proud of his heritage ! thanks!
Nice to see someone on UA-cam providing context with a remarkable eye for details.
No time wasted, no sir!.
He has a great channel , this was a great episode
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 👍👍
Every time! Go WATOP
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.
Yes, and too, desert drifter
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.
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!
As a Dutch i want to say, nice work with the video.
seing this documentarie makes me proud to be dutch.
Fun fact:
In Almere (largest city in Flevoland) we made a lake named Weerwater, which means it's water again. 😁
Had beter 'Alweerwater' kunnen heten. 🤣
@@JaapGinder
Of Nualweerwater?
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!
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".
Dutch guy here and I am smart enough to watch a lot of the videos on this channel to expand my knowledge! ;-)
@@MarcelNL
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!
@@ROTTERDXM I do have one question, where are they getting the dirt to fill in?
Now i know why the Netherlands are the worlds best experts at building Levies
The Netherlands is our country's name but we as a people are called the Dutch.
No offense though, just mentioning.
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.
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.
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!
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.
The Delta works have nothing to do with climate change. That project was implemented after the great flooding of 1953. We're not concerned
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.
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.
@@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
Great video, I love the Netherlands. They should ensure that all families of the Netherlands have boats for safety🙏❤️
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ❤️
I wish we Dutch would do more to help Bangladesh. Our nations would be awesome together.
@@OneHobbit Op basis van welke informatie word ik beoordeeld als "Niet Goed"?
@@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)
You are a brave man attempting all them pronounciations.
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.
Iets met de klok en de klepel.....
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.
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.
Fascinating, thank you!
We even had a company that build IBM pc clones called 'TULIP' during the eighties.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@hunchbackaudio I know most of that, but didn't want to write a novel. ;=)
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.
Neeltje jans?
Hansje Brinkeris a story from an American writer who never visited the Netherlands. As any Dutch will tell you it’s pure fiction.
Great story i wish it was true
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!
@@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.
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
The Netherlands has no solution to climate change and has no climate change to deal with. Many Dutch are paying for climate indulgances though.
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!!
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.
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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.
the French word for eye (oeil) comes very close
@mfversluis Sure but I was thinking in the context of what a native English speaker would be familliar with.
@@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
I was told the "ui" sound is unique in the world. A pity for foreigners, as it is used widely in Dutch.
As a dutch guy... i like how you pronounce the names.
Skuwen Doewie VenLand. Priceless😂
@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.
@@raphdroidt692I was searching for a comment to make sense of what place he mentioned, now I get it. Schouwen Duiveland
Very informative. Thank you!
As someone of Frisian descent, I appreciate the shout out
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
Very intelligent and hard working people
"The Ocean Cleanup" is another wonderful water project, invented and started by the Dutch student Boyan Slat.
I’m sorry, for saying that. I thought you were saying something different and was having a rough day. Love your content !
Anonymity is fine. Your content is good. 🙂
i wish we still did this, currently there are no active plans for large scale land creation in the netherlands
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.
This cat does some really good videos people. Help him out and "LIKE".
So much information to ingest and it overloads my brain😂
We have no ocean ,we have a sea.
its all the same connected water you dickweed
I love it when Americans talk about my country 🥰🥰
I see you did your homework! Respect! 🙏
Me As a living person in Flevoland. You did your research exelend! well explained! and that all in 21 minutes xD
Editing skills is on point
Flevapoulder sounds like flood plain. That would be fitting considering what it is.
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).
So much agriculture yet every thing food related still crazily expensive!
Im glad to see that kakashi found a new job now that naruto isnt so popular anymore
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 .
My home province 😎🇳🇱!
I prefer to stay in the east of the country.
Went from Gelderland to Overijssel, back to Gelderland and I now live in Drenthe.
me, watching this video from Almere Flevoland great stuff
wow. its amazing what humanity can do when we work together. also eating tulips sounds wild to me.
Tulips were emergency food only, ever.
Isn't the soil reclaimed from the sea too salty for farming food crops?
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...
Andyes, thats why mostly grass and tulips are grown there (grass goes to cows to make much of the well known dutch cheeses)
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..
The dutch are crazy
love from Rotterdamn man
Thank you!
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.
Yet.
nice to see, i life in the nederlands. 🙂 see you next time
Nice vid. I enjoyed it.
I live in the provence Flevoland.
"I survived the hungriest times" needs to be my new saying. 😂
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.
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.
I allways thought we made tulips because grass and tulips are the only profitable things that grow on the salty reclaimed land
@@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.
@@mourlyvold64 tbf ofcorse it changes with time, what i said was more historically based
@@larsrademakers6070 In case I hit a nerve somehow: no offence was intended, sir.
i live in flevoland and there is a lot of water canals here
I can't imagine why...
Im a person from dutch they are good at them i always say "we are always at wat, at war with the water"
Love your content, could you bring back Steve character
There's a doc called "het zinkende land" also on UA-cam, which gives some other insights.
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.
Most Dutch people have a swimming diploma! And manny more than one!
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)
@@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.
@@ronaldderooij1774 tbf i did "zwemvaardigheid" 1-2-3, and started speed swimming matches right after 😅
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.
@FrankHeuvelman tbf, i cycled to school from age 7, the bike exam was at age 12 😅😂
Who else wants a cup of coffee when WATOP says “ first a cup of coffee “ 😂
"How do we get the carbon out the air?"
Netherlanders look at Seaweed. "We shall eat it!"
...and market it, to make good money as well!
They lucky they don’t get hurricanes, can’t pull this off in Florida
Seaweed also made sushi into the icon we know today! 😋
Matthew Santoro stop it 5😂
Canadian aye…
Nice pronaunciation, it is very good
🙂 Not really, but the effort is apreciated.
This dude is Amazing. Putting out so many great videos daily or so. One of the best YT Channels! 2 Likes if i could ❤
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.
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.
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"
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!
That is why it's named Netherlands
In dutch it translates literally to LowLand/underneath land. Because it's land below sealevel😅
He so politely asked for a like, this is the first time someone asked and I actually did it
What’s the government website you mentioned?
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!!!
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?
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.
Somehow I think I learned something new again. Why does that keep happening? lol
Lay back and enjoy!
An old Dutch proverb says: „Niet aanraken anders klappen“
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....
Dredging the sea doesn't damage the sea flora and creates more water vortex and fragile coastline ?🌊
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.
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😅
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is secretly working ⚒ on bringing back all of Doggerland to make the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the largest country in Europe by land area again.
Ssssstt!!
Please have a cup of coffee on the table it's really messing with me😢
you forgot to show their animal husbandry and related technologies!
day number 1 asking Watop to talk about Venezuela🇻🇪
They created it by holding the water back. It will return to the water.
True and nature will take back the entire world. What are you trying to say?
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
Filling in areas of fresh water couldn't possibly have an affect on ocean levels or salinity and ocean currents....
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).
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