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Soil Organic Matter and its Importance for Water Management
This Deltafact highlights the role of soil organic matter in retaining water in the soil (sponge effect) and the options to influence its quantity and...
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Robustness of fresh water
Robustness is a popular term in water management. It triggers associations with strong and invulnerable; if an object is robust, it will not break dow...
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Delta scenarios and adaptive Delta Management
This fact sheet covers Adaptive Delta Management and the Delta Scenarios, explaining how they can be used in the strategic decisions of the water boar...
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Impact rapid decrease water level
Using a water storage area could lead to a similar decrease in the storage basin level and create geotechnical problems when the water storage level d...
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Company water reservoirs
This fact sheet outlines water reservoir solutions for the greenhouse horticulture and field crop sectors. Water reservoirs on private plots reduce th...
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Rainwater lenses
This delta fact addresses the recent insights into the characteristics and occurrence of rainwater lenses in areas with saline groundwater . It provid...
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Effects of climate change on nature
This delta fact addresses the effects of climate change on terrestrial nature and the manner in which these effects are included in forecasting models...
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Dynamic level management
Dynamic water level management involves anticipating conditions based on previously determined preconditions concerning water level margins as stipula...
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Drought determines functions
The Netherlands struggles with substantial water shortages and drought damage in agriculture and in nature conservation areas, especially the sandy so...
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Soil moisture-based irrigation
Soil moisture-based irrigation is a tool to reduce the demand for irrigation water by giving the user insight into the current soil moisture condition...
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Soil as a buffer
Without the buffering ability of the surface soil, nutrients would immediately be washed away with the first substantial rainfall. This is an importan...
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Pricing of water for agriculture
This fact sheet provides the background on and strategies for pricing water – specifically surface water - used by agriculture for irrigation and the ...
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Salt-tolerant crops
Salt-tolerant crops can tolerate a certain amount of salt without compromising production or quality. Growing salt-tolerant crops offers the solution ...
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Salt intrusion
Salinity of water systems is the phenomenon where fresh water is (increasingly) salified. In many cases, fresh water must stay fresh for a number of r...
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Room for the river
The Room for the River concept is related to river restoration or rehabilitation, sustainable river management, river flood management and river widen...
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Mangrove restoration
Mangrove restoration is about recovering the former situation; it is the regeneration of mangrove ecosystems in areas where they were previously situa...
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Controlled drainage
In controlled drainage, the groundwater is not immediately discharged but (partly) retained in the soil. By varying the level of the drainage basins, ...
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Aquifer storage and recovery
Excess fresh water is infiltrated and stored in aquifers through wells or infiltration ponds, and recovered from the same wells when needed. Aquifer s...
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Effectiveness of Water Intake
The focus in this fact sheet is on taking water in for agricultural (irrigation) purposes and thus on flushing for maintenance of the surface water qu...
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Effects of climate change on agriculture
This delta fact addresses climate change, the effects of climate change on crop yield in agriculture, the models and calculation methods that are appl...
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Brackish seepage
Brackish to saline groundwater is common to many areas of the Dutch coastal lowlands. The purpose of this Delta Fact is to describe the different aspe...
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Blue services
Green and blue services are voluntary activities that exceed the statutory minimum, undertaken by private landowners and land users. The services are ...
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