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WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS?

• At his recent European tour, Kerala Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan had made a stop at Noordward in the Netherlands, the site of the ‘Room for the River’ project.
• On his return from Europe this week, the Kerala CM spoke of incorporating the model in the state’s ‘Rebuild Kerala’ plan. Last year, Kerala had witnessed the century’s worst floods, which claimed nearly 500 lives and wiped out thousands of homes.

ROOM FOR THE RIVER

• In the Netherlands, Room for the River; Dutch: Ruimte voor de Rivier, is a government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping and the improvement of environmental conditions in the areas surrounding the Netherlands’ rivers. The project had been active from 2006–2015.

ROOM FOR THE RIVER

• The basic premise of the ‘Room for the River’ project is essentially to provide more space for the water body so that it can manage extraordinary high water levels during floods.
• The project, implemented at over 30 locations across the Netherlands and funded at a cost of 2.3 billion euros, involves tailor-made solutions for each river.
• The Room for the River program is a Dutch flood mitigation initiative that focuses on creating “room for the river” by increasing the depth of rivers, storing water, relocating dikes, creating high water channels, lowering floodplains, lowering groynes (structures built into the river that disrupt water flow) and/or removing polders (tracts of land entirely surrounded by dikes). Making “room for the river” allows landscapes along rivers to be restored in order to act as “natural water sponges” in the event of a flood

ROOM FOR THE RIVER

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