i just just came back from the netherlands a month ago and the flood mitigation infrastructure was something I have never seen before. no joke, canals and well built levies everywhere. some of the best architecture i have ever seen

We really need this for Miami and all of South Florida.

There were consultants from the Netherlands in Louisiana in 2006 , but then they were told to leave cus the US Army has better engineering's ...guess what happened?

Like <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="317">5:17</a> this man spits out straight facts I was like oop- he’s got us there.

Excellent story focused on resolving real issues!

Dutch people are just so smart tbh.

As a Dutch immigrant to Canada in 1953 after the flood, I have always been fascinated with water, gravity, slope, width etc, and have a cousin in Holland that was a hydraulic endgineer in Saudi Arabia...the Dutch meme is 'wees voorzichtig' which in dictionary means be careful, but the parts mean "have foresight" and that's what's happening there..anticipate.

It's like an insurance policy. You hope to never have to use it, but are grateful you have it when you need it.

Thank you 60 minutes for re showing this beautifully done piece about a brilliant compassionate genius from the Netherlands who is willing to patiently work with so many self centered stupid Americans. I hope with all my heart that the USA will start protecting the vulnerable populations from the worsening storms from climate change over the oncoming decades♥️

To me, it is always amazing to see how rather than face and embrace change for some better future good, most Americans are always more willing to continue to chance EVERYTHING on working at maintaining their own personal status quo.

The Dutch are so fascinated with drainage they named their shoes Clogs.

The Netherlands is the best with anything with water-related engineering.

funny right, government rather pay for cleanup after disaster over and over; rather than spend that money to fix the problem once and for all...

From philosophy to practicality, yes yes and yes ❤🥰

Holland Amsterdam and all Netherlands is the special place on the planet with some super smart and creative people. respect from Croatia the best place to live if u ask me by far, not to talk about the school system

As a American I can easily say we are not that smart. Unfortunately!! My home was flooded during Sandy and one of these days it will happen again!

It took the Dutch 6 years to build the barrier. It would take Americans 50 years to build it. The US is extremely slow in building any major infrastructure projects these days.

When you go to Rotterdam you realize the potential of a city and get really disappointed when you go home to the "richest" country in the world.

Hire this man to fix flooding. Just imagine if they had this in places. Trillion of dollars saved.

Why should you build back in a spot that gets destroyed on a fairly regular basis? Relocate where possible, perhaps.

To do anything remotely productive like the Netherlands, would imply that the US is willing to progress and learn. Boy, do I have news for you; not when profits and capitalistic insurance serve to gain! Everything is hedged on systemic infrastructure failure.

This dude is a G.

Florida needs to call the Dutch right now. We need better infrastructure.

I am Dutch. All i see is a mentality issue to change. I guess this is why the Dutch are named pragmatics. I don`t mean to judge, it is an observation. That being said, it`s not all that peacefull here either, but on that issue... things get done.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="816">13:36</a> lamfoooo well there you have it folks

The Netherlands invests every year a billion euro just for water management and protection

Use the Army Corps of Engineers to build this infrastructure for the American tax payer. It’s so simple

I always wonder what In somebody’s brain tells them to live in a area YOU KNOW is gunna get hit by hurricanes repeatedly

It's an expensive solution for archipelago/ peninsula countries and the ones badly affected by floods, but it's still much better than relocating millions of people to other places

Earth Day: A Dutch solution called "Room for the River" may mitigate flood damage in the future. This approach involves creating more space for rivers to flow during times of high water levels, rather than building more levees and dams. By allowing rivers to flood in controlled areas, the risk of flooding in populated areas can be reduced. This strategy has been successfully implemented in the Netherlands, where the country's low-lying geography makes it particularly vulnerable to flooding. As climate change leads to more frequent and intense weather events, solutions like "Room for the River" are becoming increasingly important for managing flood risks around the world. rivers to flow during times of high water levels, rather than building more levees and dams. By allowing rivers to flood in controlled areas, the risk of flooding in populated areas can be reduced. This strategy has been successfully implemented in the Netherlands, where the country's low-lying geography makes it particularly vulnerable to flooding. As climate change leads to more frequent and intense weather events, solutions like "Room for the River" are becoming increasingly important for managing flood risks around the world.

New Orleans needs it too

Oh my Gosh! Why do we have to call a hurricane "Mathew", "Harvey" or "Catrina". We could have just called them non-human names.

Once they see my blue eyes, they will just believe me😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Luctor et emergo, very nice to see how someone from a great country like USA is willing to learn from some arrogant Dutch guy 😊 To prevent is better than to cure, or as the Dutch would say: To prevent is cheaper than to cure ;-)

The Dutch do not get 35 inches of rain in a single event,,, ever. Our mistake is building homes in flood plains, and low seacoasts. The Mississippi should NOT have levees. The Mississippi should have farm land all along its banks. Same with seashores. Every foot of that should be public beach and park land. Someone who builds on the beach should be paying their own insurance. Federal flood insurance came about because the low areas along the Ohio and Mississippi flooded nearly every year,, and destroyed the homes of poor people living in the low areas. No large fancy homes were built there BECAUSE it flooded often. The bottom land was cheap,, poor people could afford it,, and poor housing was built there. Up on the hill was reserved for wealthy people. Flood Insurance,,, and now wealthy people could buy flood insurance and move down to the water front. The water front then became the valuable property. ONLY because the rest of the country was paying to fix the house each time. Annnnd , with wealthy people living in the flood zone,, Lotsa levees got built. Every foot of coast line now has an expensive house on it,,, so every storm has lots of expensive houses to destroy. There should be no houses there.

Americans are more focused on debating how many genders there are.

In America we can't use the Dutch method as little Dutch boys would not know where to put their finger Especially in Hollywood

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="152">2:32</a> "you're a collective, when things happen you come together" I thought this guy new a thing or two about America. Anything remotely connected to collective action has a rabid mob of so called libertarians foaming at the mouth screaming COMMUNISM!!! Probably sprinkled with emojis. Remember the pandemic? I know modern attention spans are limited (sorry I've forgotten what I was going to say, look a squirrel!) America pulled together real well to deal with that. Election year beckons and apparently the mob boss is more popular than the elderly chap. Whatever the result, the smart money is on civil war. Again.

Well, we did have a little help in reshaping Rotterdam because the Nazi's bombed it until it was a pile of rubble.

In Holland we always have an attitude of: try to behave as “normal” as possible. Which I mostly like. But the first guy’s accent is so thick. He could’ve made a little effort to try and pronounce the words a bit more naturally. But then he would feel awkward so he just pronounces everything extremely Dutch. It’s awful

I love the Dutch arrogance

Will go back to sleep again in a minute. In my dream just now, my very early morning sleep, I was back in Europe, in The Netherlands to be exact, people still the same old, not nice people indeed, then suddenly the land was cracked the dams were cracked too many parts of the country are under the water, Amsterdam was mostly effected, my safe in Amsterdam was stuck in the was basement next to the canal and that time was already sinking in with the north sea water, no where safe to walk in Amsterdam Clumsy move will worsen the land cracks and will drown in everything It was a fine normal day, but it all started with sudden trees along the canals were uprooting *Then I woke up When very poor eternal criminals western world, middle east and surrounding never evolved animals not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood stuck inside their tiny boxes/cages their entire life cannot handle the truth then it's considered as hatred. Anyway ;) Draconia/Dragon My Guardians. Reptiles any size any danger level are harmless around me including petting Komodo Dragon. Born a complete multiracial multilingual Indonesian living around the world all alone since childhood. Rizki Ferdian (Unique, Light Bearer, Brave) = Richie Ferdinand Me, February 1st 1984, <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="573">9:33</a>-36 AM GMT +7 = Aquarius Sun in its own Aquarius 11th house, Aries Ascendant/Rising 1st house, etc including MARS in Scorpio in its Scorpio 8th house meaning Dont f around with me, it would be lifetime regret, Scorpio last stage: DRAGON. Numerology of many aspects: 7 Egypt isn't the oldest but Indonesia, Indonesia is much older before eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75,000 years ago resulted today world's largest volcanic lake, including world's oldest pyramid 25,000 years old Gunung Padang, West Java. Yet, world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569, real size of Indonesia is huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world. Don't you find it how weird world map's shape is? Indonesia should be in the center and bigger! Also Australia was part of Indonesia before Westerners came to steal it from our Ancestors All Indo including Indo Persia, Indo Europe, Indo Pacific, etc came from Indo Nesos (Indus Islands) = Indonesia Batak Bulgaria, Dracula/Draconia/Dragon, Sumeria, Simmental Switzerland, etc = Sumatra Indonesia Sumer, Summer/Sun, Terre/Tera = Sumatera/Sumatra, Mother of Sumer Batak Bulgaria = Batak Sumatra Simmental Switzerland = Minangkabau/Batak Sumatra And so on..

Please do not insult us by calling us Holland...do your homework before you do a video PLEASE.

But how is the Dutch's "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" program?

A good thing to plan prevention yet they thought the titanic had been engineered to not sink