Vídeo: Como a Flandres recorre à natureza para evitar cheias mortais

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in case of a storm surge ANP would be underwater wow okay yeah the last few months have been a stark reminder of the power of flooding in the Havoc it can cause but could nature provide an answer to our problems that’s exactly why we’ve come to the river skelt in Belgium to find out about a different approach to coastal [Music] defense long on the flooding front line Flanders doesn’t just have to contend with heavy rainfall storm surge also poses a deadly risk how you doing today Elias is show me why nature is increasingly seen as the solution when there is a high tide yeah in combination with a storm on the sea and if the storm is the wind is blowing from the from the Northwest then it’s actually pushing the water into the Estuary so we need protection what would happen if it wasn’t here it was just the river without any human interference large parts of the area actually quite large parts of flounders would come underwater without any protection the damage would be uh enormous flood control areas like this one help protect antp and The Wider scalp Valley from being overwhelmed during a storm surge designed to act as a buffer they capture excess water and slowly release it back into the river but flood protection isn’t the only benefit these uh tidal marshes are very important for nature but not only for the habitat and the wildlife itself but also their regulation functions they are very important for the nutrient balance and each Marsh also has a function for carbon sequestration and storage this nature-based solution is just one example of how the changing climate is forcing us to rethink flood protection from the north of Belgium to Brussels we’re here to check out green week where all the talk is about water the focus this year was on how to make Europe more water resilient let’s jump in and join the conversation experts think nature could hold the key nice to meet you yeah nice to meet you we thought that Technical Solutions would solve everything but we now see that it doesn’t work especially now the climate is changing nature-based Solutions can help us for example keeping water on the roof keeping water in your Gardens and then on the large scale uh we have to give space to Rivers we have to keep the water in the soil so working with nature then not against it when the water doesn’t get uh the room it it needs it will take it and that would be a disaster so we developed a plan with large uh control flood areas and we decided to uh combine this with new nature development that’s it for this episode see you soon for more water [Music] matters but