What a remarkable land reclamation history! The commitment to environmental preservation and agriculture is astounding. I love how the Netherlands keeps coming up with answers to global issues like climate warming and water conservation.
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 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??
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 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".
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.
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.
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
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.
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 .
@@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)
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!
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.
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.
Thank you from the Netherlands. As far as I know, all your information is correct. You also point out the ethical issues we are dealing with. Being vegan I distance myself from everything concerned with the insane numbers of cattle we keep. That our tiny country is the nr 2 food exporter in the world, after the USA, is a symptom of a dire problem. But like you mentioned. In a couple of hundred years our country will cease to exist, no doubt about it. I hope the world will learn from our demise. But no worries.
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
Tulips come from Turkey. We only made the first stockmarket with it, couple hundred years ago. Just like Crypto now. Look it up, the tulip scam blow up. Because of the Tulip market... there were more tulips left than normal food while the Germans came to visit.
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is secretly working ⚒ on bringing back all of Doggerland to make the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the largest country in Europe by land area again.
i think the title of the vid is a bit stupid. why doesn't the netherlands let the ocean touch the land? if this happends we all fucking die. but aside from that this is a great vid man. keep up the good work.
Where does the Water goes ? I mean when so heavy Water get replaced, somewhere else it must go. Look at other Countrys who are sinking right know. UAE and all other islands building Countrys give a Shit about it. 😢
What a remarkable land reclamation history! The commitment to environmental preservation and agriculture is astounding. I love how the Netherlands keeps coming up with answers to global issues like climate warming and water conservation.
Didn’t they just destroy an aquatic habitat?
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 .
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)
Anonymity is fine. Your content is good. 🙂
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.
You are a brave man attempting all them pronounciations.
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!
Flevapoulder sounds like flood plain. That would be fitting considering what it is.
So much information to ingest and it overloads my brain😂
I see you did your homework! Respect! 🙏
Thank you!
i live in flevoland and there is a lot of water canals here
I can't imagine why...
They created it by holding the water back. It will return to the water.
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.
nice to see, i life in the nederlands. 🙂 see you next time
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?
Love your content, could you bring back Steve character
What's going on with FBI HAT?
Maybe they work for the fed trying to radicalize people on UA-cam? Crazier things have happened in the last decade.
you forgot to show their animal husbandry and related technologies!
"How do we get the carbon out the air?"
Netherlanders look at Seaweed. "We shall eat it!"
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!!!
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.
Is that an FBI cap on the table? Why is it there?
Thank you from the Netherlands. As far as I know, all your information is correct. You also point out the ethical issues we are dealing with. Being vegan I distance myself from everything concerned with the insane numbers of cattle we keep. That our tiny country is the nr 2 food exporter in the world, after the USA, is a symptom of a dire problem.
But like you mentioned. In a couple of hundred years our country will cease to exist, no doubt about it. I hope the world will learn from our demise.
But no worries.
@@OneHobbit je hebt gelijk
Btw Im vegan lol
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
I think this is the same guy that reads the stories on Redwheel
Im glad to see that kakashi found a new job now that naruto isnt so popular anymore
He so politely asked for a like, this is the first time someone asked and I actually did it
We have no ocean ,we have a sea.
"Why Doesn’t the Netherlands Let the Ocean Touch the Land?"
If only our politicians would work so hard to help the poor in our country, it might be a little better.
Tulips come from Turkey. We only made the first stockmarket with it, couple hundred years ago. Just like Crypto now. Look it up, the tulip scam blow up.
Because of the Tulip market... there were more tulips left than normal food while the Germans came to visit.
How in the world do they drain all these lakes?😮
The Netherlands is not at an ocean !
Lets goooo 5 minutes drive for me to get there.
Stay 4 ever anonymous.
Don't Listen what they want fck.them
Your Videos have so much quality wit or without your face ❤
No you got it wrong the first water boards were made by the CIA😂😂
So this not your real voice. But it's easy to listen to.....
Yea bro he is a ki ❤😂😂😂
It does touch the land. 😂
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is secretly working ⚒ on bringing back all of Doggerland to make the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the largest country in Europe by land area again.
How about this the day you show your face is the day I smash that like button DEAL? 👍❌💯🙀💨🥦
Nice pronaunciation, it is very good
You’re welcome
i think the title of the vid is a bit stupid. why doesn't the netherlands let the ocean touch the land?
if this happends we all fucking die. but aside from that this is a great vid man. keep up the good work.
west of amsterdam? don't you mean east?
its amazing because i never skip ur video's, and i skip everything
Where does the Water goes ? I mean when so heavy Water get replaced, somewhere else it must go. Look at other Countrys who are sinking right know. UAE and all other islands building Countrys give a Shit about it. 😢
Good morning 🥱🥱🥱
Flevoland the worst part of the Netherlands
They are now poking holes in all water dikes
😂😂
We are not. We are reserving more space to store excess rain, because if we don't choose where it goes it will flood our cities.
What! Why?
@@Magusbrrj27 We are not. This is propaganda from extreme right sources that have never studied water management.
@suusje004 Wil je een banaan?
If you want to stay anonymous, please stay behind your coffee machine. You don't need to appear in full hijab. What for?
I can turn anything I eat into poop.
Yes, yes you can
Even urine?
Booed..show your face and have some Beer! From Bangladesh
Stupid question would this not raise sea levels