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The Dutch solution to floods: live with water, don't fight it
2014-02-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nol and Wil Hooijmaaijers have been watching the TV news from Britain with some horror. "It's terrible to see, very sad, I am so sorry. And when you see the cows up to their knees in the water," Wils tuts and shakes her head. "We are so lucky." Sitting at their oak dining table, looking out of the windows of their modern farmhouse at the newly planted saplings standing firm in the grey afternoon, the couple know what it is like to lose a home on a flood plain. . Their old house and fields were...
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