{"id":24516,"date":"2017-08-30T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24516"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:32:37","slug":"the-netherlands-always-vulnerable-to-floods-has-a-new-approach-to-water-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/30\/the-netherlands-always-vulnerable-to-floods-has-a-new-approach-to-water-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Public Radio International (PRI)<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2017-07-16\/netherlands-always-vulnerable-floods-has-new-approach-water-management\" target=\"_blank\">The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTen years ago, the Netherlands developed the concept of \u201croom for the rivers,\u201d which Zevenbergen calls a \u201cparadigm shift.\u201d \u201cThe room for the rivers concept is a turning point in our approach,\u201d he explains.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the difficulties that many countries face is in financing projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs always, funding massive projects presents challenges, even when the stakes are so high. Recently, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) held a conference which directly addressed how to engage the finance sector and the water sector.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank estimates that investing a dollar in flood protection saves $7 to $10 in flood damage, but, \u201cfor some reason,\u201d Zevenbergen says, \u201cthere is an investment gap. &#8230; The money cannot find the projects, and the projects cannot find the money.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A country like the USA that is sovereign in its own currency and has little debt that is not denominated in that currency does not face these financing problems.  We have much greater leeway to create the money necessary to finance these projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Radio International (PRI) has the article The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management. Ten years ago, the Netherlands developed the concept of \u201croom for the rivers,\u201d which Zevenbergen calls a \u201cparadigm shift.\u201d \u201cThe room for the rivers concept is a turning point in our approach,\u201d he explains. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24517,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions\/24517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}