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After the devastating 1953 flood in the Netherlands, engineers there built an elaborate network of dikes, islands and floodgates. The New Orleans flood is causing Dutch politicians and specialists to re-examine their protection systems and the country’s r
After a 1953 storm killed 1800 people in the Netherlands, the Dutch built an elaborate system of dikes and dams to prevent another flooding disaster. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with a flood risk analyst in the Netherlands about the reasons and the resources it took to put the protection in place.