{"id":124978,"date":"2018-01-21T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=124978"},"modified":"2018-01-21T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T05:30:12","slug":"thinking-brabant-marsman-rewritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/thinking-brabant-marsman-rewritten\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Brabant… Marsman rewritten"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All five contributors \u2013 sometimes accompanied by guest bloggers \u2013 are working on\u00a0solving\u00a0the problems of our time. Everything to make Tomorrow Good. This Sunday, it\u2018s Mary Fiers\u2019 turn.\u00a0Here are all the previously published columns<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Thinking of Holland, I see broad rivers slowly passing through infinite lowlands”, Hendrik Marsman wrote in his closing words\u00a0from his ode to the Dutch landscape. Over the past few weeks, broad rivers indeed went through the delta landscape because of the high water.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you didn’t notice? High and dry in the Eindhoven region this may not be strange, but the lower parts of the Netherlands life also continued undisturbed. As if nothing was wrong. And that is, almost secretly, an enormous achievement. Thanks to our water engineers, the water delta of the Netherlands is prepared for this kind of enormous amounts of water from the hinterland. The Meuse\u00a0receives its extra water from precipitation in the Belgian Ardennes and northern France. The Rhine gets\u00a0it from meltwater from the mountain regions in Switzerland and southern Germany. It is then a matter of (limited) time before the water wave reaches our country.<\/p>\n

Actually, the approach of this water wave is very simple. Previously, the emphasis was on constantly reinforcing and raising dikes. Insight has changed. No more fighting against the water, but moving with it. At high tide rivers literally get more space. The floodplains<\/em> are then submerged by ingenious water management. It’s about millions and millions of liters of water. And also about a lot of money to make this possible. No less than \u20ac2.2 billion was allocated to the national\u00a0Space for the River<\/em> programme.<\/p>\n

Sounds simple. But it is not because the Netherlands is a small country. There is a constant struggle for the use of scarce space. Agriculture, housing, industry, mobility, water, and nature all demand a part of this space.<\/p>\n

In our own region, on the slightly higher sandy soils, we\u00a0are facing a similar spatial challenge. Not so much because of the water from the hinterland, but because of the changing climate. Here too, the dry and wet periods are becoming increasingly severe. This requires space for climate buffers. The valleys of the Dommel, Aa, Beerze, Keersop, and Run can become ideal climate buffers. How? By designing the stream valleys in such a way that they slowly dissipate water in dry periods and have space to collect a lot of water in wet periods.<\/p>\n

First of all, this requires a shared picture of a new, future-proof, Brabant. A new version of Marsman is perhaps a good start?<\/p>\n

“Thinking of Brabant, I see wide meandering\u00a0creek valleys, slowly going through the sandy soils!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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