Ed,Originally Posted by EdD
The Netherlands have so much surface water, you'd be hard pressed to stand anywhere and not have some form of water in your sight.
Folks often think that most of the protect-from-flooding effort here is on preventing the North Sea from flooding the one-third of the Netherlands which is situated a couple feet below sea level. Not so.
The Netherlands are at the receiving end of two of Europe's major rivers, the Rhein and the Waal. There is a long standing, well thought out and maintained 24x7x365 operation to pump fresh water out of the low lying region.
No matter where you go, the water table is never more than about two feet down. Droughts or hose-bans are not any concern here for the Lowlanders
Cheers,
Hans W
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