The Netherlands are almost completely surrounded in water. So, when the water rises, it does terrible damage to the country. In the early 50's there was a terrible flood where a bunch of people died, and even more were displaced from there homes. Because of ths, the Government decided to begin something called the Delta project. This project pretty much just means that they built dykes across almost all of the rivers that flow into the ocean so that they could moniter and change the amount of water going out to sea, or coming into the rivers. This project took about 14 years to complete.
We went to go see one of these dykes. To build it, they made these huge diamond shaped pieces of concrete, with big holes in it, that they strapped together with pieces of metals to create it. We got to take this tour that took us through it. Inside there are these huge hydrolic motor thingys that help lifts the arms to moniter the water level. It is pretty huge :D The view from the outside is pretty amazing as well. The ocean is a very mysterious thing to look at. There was also an a nice view of some wind mills :D They have those everywhere!! I think that Wind and Water are the Netherlands primary source of energy.
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