How the Dutch Created The Netherlands Reaction! 

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There's a poem engraved on one of the Deltaworks which roughly translates to: _Here the tide is ruled; by the moon, the wind, and us._

One realistic fact we definitely have to cope with in the future is we have to live with the water….not to control it. As an advisor at one of the 21 waterboards I work daily on watermanagement projects. And if there is one thing Ive learned the last 20 years is that water doesnt let us fully control it. We must learn to adapt and learn to live with it. Our policy is all about that right now. On the other hand there is drought…especially on the higher sandy grounds in the east and south. 2018-2020 summers opened our eyes not to only focus on the abundance of water but also learn to adapt to the shorts of it. Never a dull moment over here 😉

Such a teacher in front of the class and (almost) all children hang on your every word.

good video, as a dutch just to add some information: -first watermanagemend was done by the germanic and frisian tribes up north whit hollowed outlogs and building terps.. basically hills to keep your houses dry. In the middelages the church and bisdoms won land by building a levy or dyke and then slowly over generation get fertile land. windmills where used and now they work on electricity. For a time there was wat is called in dutch a "stoomgemaal" basically a big pump working on a steam engine. And yes the "waternood ramp" caused a lot of people to drawn or be homeless. same for londen and city's in brittain, because we both get effected by the channel. There is a museum that document the change in fish, when the Zuiderzee became the Ijselmeer. Part of the polders in Frisa, North Holand and the north east part of Flevoland was made axicdently. Back then we didn't know the land there was slightly higher and also became land. If we maintain our waterworks and update it on time we will be fine. if not.. well its good we are a tall people I guess.

Yes, the IJsselmeer is a fresh water lake now. Most of the drinkingwater supplied to North-Holland (except Amsterdam) comes from the IJsselmeer. Due to the research of Delft Technical University, it's of excellent quality. I drink it every day.

I grew up near Rotterdam. Between our town and Rotterdam was a HUGE piece of wetland. Again and again they had to put sand on it and then leave it again. It took about thirty years or longer before it was ready to be build up on.

The netherlands got a mountain, on saba. Saba is a specially municipal of the netherlands.

It's been key to our understanding of efficiency. Natural disasters do not wait for your resolve. Politicians have a knack for talking around the problems instead of preparing for the inevitable. To do is better than to deny.

The biggest "recent" "failure" was in 1953 in Zeeland. A lot of people died and a lot of people lost, well, close to everything. Then came the Delta works and if you think about the fact they didn't have computers or high tec machinery it's a pretty big accomplishment

I've read old books about the province Zeeland (the southwest part of The Netherlands and it used to be normal to get flooded every 20 years or so, and lose family members and live stock, until they made the Deltawerken/Neeltje Jans

Most floating houses that can move, require a tugboat to do so.

Mister HxC 59 minutes has a great episode on the Netherlands and its watermanagement. Please react, you get educated, but thanks to you and this channel, YOU deucate aswell.. thanks for that 1!! Greetings from The NEtherlands

Flooding, one of the reasons the Dutch have the bedrooms not on ground level.

I never get bored with you an your videos. Greetz and the best to you. Wouter.vw

Be careful Poseidon, the Dutch are coming lol.

The engeneering in The Neterlands is suberb!!!!

Every year at the Last Night of the Proms in the Albert Hall and Hide Park thousends of Brits proudly sing: Britain rules the waves! But did they??? They ment the ships on that waves! Only the Dutch really rule(d) the waves by their watermanagement!!!

That was cool. Thank you

Wait till you see the tree shaped houses in Rotterdam. Im actualy preparing land for building houses close to amsterdam using a technique that is as old as the netherlands itself. Ooh and nether translated properly is neder that means humble. translated to Dutch it is nederig and laag means low. In today strangulation. But to continue the story I was telling its quite the swampy land I'm working on. The soil is called veen I think it translates to turf in English. We just dump a huge amount of sand on top of it and let it rest for a minimum of a year. During this proses we also put smal drainage tubes in place so the ground water level is lowerd quicker. After a year we simply level this field to a surten hight. And the the holes are dug for the fundamentals of the houses. Before the fundamentals are made a machine comes in. And slams huge concrete poles into the ground. After this the fundamentals are build and then the house can be constructed.

One thing you really must see when you are in the Netherlands, The Delta works (Neeltje Jans). You feel so small when you are there.

My great grandfather (grandfather of my mom) worked on the Afsluitdijk. I have some pictures of him working there and it’s crazy to see that they managed to ‘defeat’ the sea with such tools.

Nice video again, keep up the good work and the learning :p We all benefit from having knowledge in one way or another.

You should react to 'netherlands from above, why we live where we live', it explains a lot more about our history with the water and our modern projects

Zeeland and Zuid-Holland. They always forget the first barier build in 1958 near Krimpen aan den IJssel .

I life the Netherlands, but,i .don't know not.everthing, coming from Zeeland province, my father took pictures from the work i was there as wel, thanks higly for this memory ❣️

there is a Discovery Channel "How it's made" episode about building these floating houses.

Those floating houses are the first to go down with the next flood no engine no anker and no keel , they are like sitting ducks. A nice idea but set up to fail. If you want your living space on the water than it has to be on a ship of some sort.

oh these kind of videos are really cool, can watch this all day, with paul of course 😄💯❤

As a dutchie i can confirm we are ex-atlantic people

No those floating houses, you see on 13.55 minutes do not have an engine. They can't probably be called boats eather. They are build on a concrete construction of 4 walls. The most of them can't even be moved. I lived on a real houseboat in the 90's for about 4 or almost 5 years, in my student time. But do not worry, I had electricity, fresh water, gas, telephone and internet (by then still by telephone) in the innercity of Groningen. I can tell you more about this way of living...if you want to. But it is okay, if you do not want the details. I can understand, it is such a little detail in such a big story. If you are interested, just answer to my reaction... than we will find a way to communicate. Erik.

a boat on standby! xd

Next vid: how modern Dutch politicians destroy The Netherlands

can confirm the water obey's us(the water is our bitch)

Hallo Paul. At the moment we are not so affraid for the sea. But maybe in the future that will change because of the climat change. But we have also to deal with the rivers (Rijn and Maas) that brings us water from a part of Europe. And we get more and more heavy rainfalls. That brings us so much water from Germany, Switserland, Belgium and France that our rivers and storage cann't handle this water enough. It is a dangerous situation for us. These countries don't feel the urgency to do enough about it. We had a project called Room fot the river. This is a government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping and the improvement of environmental conditions in the areas surrounding the dutch rivers. The project was active from 2006-2015. Juli this year several rivers and streams overflowed because of the heavy rainfalls. The Belgian province of Liège and the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, and the south of the Netherlands were particularly hit hard. In Belgium 46 died, in Germany 180 and in the Netherlands 0. The good result for us is due to this project. I hope this will also be a wake up call for other countries in europe. Let's hope.

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Hi HC, are you gonna pick up the Golden Age documentary series any time soon? You kind of left me hanging, lol. I hadn't seen the series when it aired on Dutch TV and I was enjoying watching it with you. Although I guess, it being in Dutch with English subtitles, makes it harder to watch than an English speaking video?

For English countries 'The Netherlands' mean The low lands, for us Nederlanders it is called 'Nederland' Low Land. We don;t have multiple lands, only 1 country guys. And also, we Nederlanders call the Germans Duitshe or Dutch for you English.

Dam!

U cant move the boat houses

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This is also a nice one to watch : 101 facts about the Netherlands ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VBrMGT4RMsI.html

You pour man. Being forced to watch everything Dutch.

First 😉👍

There's a dutch saying: Learning whilst falling and standing back up ("Leren met vallen en opstaan"). I think it applies to our land reclamation.

By this time you know a lot more about the Netherlands and the fight against the sea. Perhaps you should watch Davina Michele s "The Power of water " again. Where you see the Delta Works in all its glory and the word Power becomes more clear. 😉. Thanks for your interest and comments. 👍👋

I'm not subbed and youtube is showing me this because I watched a video the other day. It was interresting. Well greetings from the Polder Almere, Flevoland. peace out till next time i guess.

One of the last images was of Nijmegen, you saw the (i believe) "buiten Waal", an extra waterway so the uiterwaarden don't flood anymore. When I studied there, I lived in those uiterwaarden. First night I moved in, 30 cms of water in our livingroom😂. Once our little comunity (of houseboats and semi illegal buildings, that surrounded a demolished brick factory, occupied by the strangest but nicest ppl ever😊) was literally an island. The road over the dijk was a metre under water. Our houses weren't😉. We had kajaks in our backyard, when the uiterwaarden flooded we used to go kajaking on them. And once they froze over and we had an ice skating range in our backyard. Miss those days and that comunity. Oh. And thank you. Your reactions actually sort of make me feel genuinly proud to be Dutch😊.

lekker bezig ! love from holland mate

The floating houses do not have a motor, a towboat brings them from the construction hall to their place. They are connected to flexible electricity, sewer, drinking water, telephone, glassfiber, and whatever they need. They rise and fall with the water level. And are kept in place, so cannot drift away. They are built on a big, swimming pool like, concrete box (without water of course) so they float. In this basement weights can be placed to bring the house perfectly leveled out.

there used to be a volcano in the north of the Netherlands but that was millions of years ago but they could see it from the sediment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuidwal_volcano

I have a boat 800 mtr. From my house, in the hauber. By a flowd danger, i wil bring it to my house. I'ts on a trailer. Greetings from Spakenburg The Netherlands

yes, war with the sea, but also, we lived from what the sea brought, fish , trade, and fertile grounds. She gives and takes...

Hope you Americans now understand why we Dutch people don't believe first floor (we say ground floor) living is NOT a good idea unless you bed is build inside a boat. I never understood why so many Americans like first floor living. Sleeping on the second floor has many advantages, one of them being of course less likely to drown while sleeping... Another one being that most burgelars forget that if they go up the stairs, they also need to go down the stairs and one little kick will make them fly down :)😂

i'm born in Amsterdam so In Holland but living in recreated land Flevoland Almere for a while now almost 40 years.inbtweeen i've lived in Germany also for about 3 years.

@13:50 what kinda annoys me about these videos is they all overstate the issue of rising sealevels massively, taking absurdist models rather then the most likely, in the most likely scenario the sea level rise will be around 30cms in the next 150 years which isn't that big of a deal, it may increase the strorm chance from 1/10000 years to 1/9000 years or so, the biggest issue is and will be snow melt from the alps comming down the rivers not the sea perse.

Being originally from The Netherlands and living in the US for 12. I do not want to live on a floating house! At least not the one shown in the video. I have 4 very young children and are very nervous whenever they are around the pool, let alone if the grass is replaced with water...

@12:13 not even to replace a nature reserve we got rid of, we just do not need the area for farmland anymore and the dike is already there, so the idea has been floating around (pun intended) to do something useful with it in regards to creating an area more akin to how the swamplands were naturally (see the biesbos) so fish and birds can use it for safety and feeding, and we have a nice place of leisure in the middle of some of the larger citys (utrecht, amsterdam almere and to lesser extend lelystad)

i never get why people chance names it is nederland not netherlands man we are to polite

The netherlnds has got a mountain but its in Curacao

You should react to these 2 songs: 1) Rowwen Heze - November. 2) Neet oet lottum - Hald mich ens vas. These songs are from the Dutch province of Limburg with it's own dialect, it sounds way different then the Dutch language. The songs are both beautifull.

The markerwaard was never poldered because of the impact it would have on the wildlife. When the afsluitdijk began, nobody cared, but when flevoland was finished, people started crying about nature (and rightly so), that we should not just keep destroying it. We then voted for nature, and never finished the draining of the markerwaard.

In the video he forgot the first ever completed Delta Works: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandsche_IJsselkering They are a pair of huge sliders, each suspended between two towers. The two sliders of the barrier are more than eighty meters wide and 11.5 meters high and are each suspended from steel cables between two towers with a height of 45 meters. The sliders go down about twice a year during stormy weather and when the tides rises high. That's the village where I live today, proud of it.

Congratulations on hitting 100k!

102k, hehe