News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage. Parent comment

Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by sangnoir on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:25PM (#36003738)
The Netherlands been claiming land from the sea for centuries and some areas are already below sea level - I don't think they'll neglect their dykes any time soon.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by ethbr0 on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:14PM (#36004407)
Since the 1400s; ref polder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_the_Neth...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by avisser on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:47PM (#36004782)
The Afsluitdijk just got heightened and reinforced. As someone who's biked across it, I'm psyched because now you can bike on the North Sea side - previously, there was only 1 bike path on the Zuiderzee side.

https://theafsluitdijk.com/projects/dike-reinforcement/how/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water... by Scarblac on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:18PM (#36005145)
But we're also a river delta, we will run into problems long term because we'd have to pump entire rivers over the dykes.

Also salification and other problems with only pumping out all the time.

[ Parent | on HN ]