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It is different with the big rivers like the River Waal. There you can indeed not build near the river like this.
It is different with the big rivers like the River Waal. There you can indeed not build near the river like this.
BUT I DIDN'T THINK EVEN NOW, THEY COULD REGULATE THE WATER LEVEL SO CLOSELY AS TO SET THE HOUSE MERE INCHES ABOVE WATER LEVEL.
As to the closeness of regulating the level, there can be problems of course. One when it rains very, very much (and that is expected more often now in connection with the climate change), but also when it is very dry, as it is in some summers. Then they have a complicated system of spreading extra water across the country, taking it out of the big reservoir, the IJsselmeer. But this has happened only once up till now.