From 3,500 to 21: What the Dutch Learned About Who Holds the Line

September 30, 2026

In my last post, I wrote from the Noordwaard, a former farming polder (or protected basin) on the edge of De Biesbosch National Park, where the Dutch lowered a dike on purpose so the river can spill into the polder at high water. That was the Dutch trying something new (for them).