Making Space for Water

In the summer of 2021 record rainfall overwhelmed river systems across Europe. People in the Limburg region of the Netherlands held their collective breath as water levels in the River Meuse rose. Floods in the 1990s had taught them what devastation flooding could bring. Fortunately, the government had already acted, investing in a unique, technically advanced and sustainable system of dikes to protect communities, a design which had never been used before. The question was would it work?