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The SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute World Water Week is in full swing, and we’re excited to pre-launch a new initiative: the City Champion Challenge! Spearheaded by Water as Leverage (WaL), this new challenge will embrace an integrated approach to tackling the impacts of climate change on city water systems and communities.   👊 We’re looking for urban stakeholders and cities who have developed initiatives that promote just and sustainable water and climate resilience. We want to see: 🏙 Initiatives that advance urban water resilience 🧭 Alignment with the WaL Guidance principles 🗺 Current and potential impact, including replicability and scalability in other areas or regions 💡 Transformative solutions and lessons learned to share with the WaL community 🏛️ Local authority ownership and/or involvement Deltares is proud to be part of the challenge, alongside Netherlands Enterprise Agency and UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme). The official launch will be in a few weeks’ time, so watch this space! 👀 In the meantime, more info at > https://rebrand.ly/9mfardh #EnablingDeltaLife #UrbanResilience #WaterAsLeverage #CityChampionChallenge

Delft-FEWS news! This November, various Delft-FEWS and forecasting related trainings will be given, within the context of the 2024 Delft Software Days. Trainings include Delft-FEWS configuration trainings (at both beginner and advanced levels), probabilistic forecasting, configurating Delft-FEWS for Water Quality, and using the Delft-FEWS API. Registration is currently open. Sign up now! 👉 https://rebrand.ly/q26i5qs #EnablingDeltaLife #DelftFEWS #DSD24 #DelftSoftwareDays

😃 Time to check out another facility! Our Atlantic Basin is a unique 75 x 9m multifunctional facility where (extreme) storms with waves and (tidal) currents can be simulated. It can be used for coastal, river, harbour, and offshore projects. 🌊 The combination of wave generation with a pumping system allows for realistic simulation of sea waves interacting with a current. This is not only of interest for research on wave-current interaction, but also essential for a number of situations, such as scour around offshore structures. 📘 A great outcome from this facility is our journal paper and handbook of scour and cable protection methods, containing design guidelines for industry based on a large experimental dataset (available on our website, see link below) 🤝 Want to collaborate or do research in the Atlantic Basin? Get in touch via our website > https://rebrand.ly/4d1602 #EnablingDeltaLife #AtlanticBasin #AppliedResearch #ResearchFacility

Our very own dr. Suzanne van Eekelen is scheduled to give one of the state-of-the-art lectures at this year’s European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Suzanne is an expert in the field of geosynthetic reinforcement, in particular piled embankments. #ECSMGE2024 is organised by SPG Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia in #Lisbon from 25 - 30 August. The lecture will be on 28 August and will cover the design guideline for piled embankments developed by the Netherlands, that, besides the calculation model of Suzanne, also includes a robust safety justification. Using Dutch safety and risk analysis techniques, Suzanne van Eekelen, Timo Schweckendiek, and Piet van Duijnen (GeoTec Solutions) have established a well-founded model factor and a well-substantiated set of partial factors. Following our state-of-the-art guideline for piled embankments results in a sound design that meets the safety requirements set by Europe. The lecture concludes with some examples of lessons learned from cases involving failures or near-failures. Are you attending ECSMGE 2024? Don't miss Suzanne's lecture! More information > https://rebrand.ly/23cq8ja   #EnablingDeltaLife #GeotechnicalEngineering #SoilMechanics #PiledEmbankments

💧 The SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute World Water Week is about to kick off, and our experts are ready to head off to Stockholm for a busy week of sessions and workshops! We’ll be covering a range of topics, from how we can learn from failures, to how deltas can act as connectors from source to sea. We’ll also be (pre) launching a range of initiatives, including: 🏙 A City Champion Challenge that embraces an integrated approach to tackling the impacts of climate change on city water systems and communities 🤝A strategic partnership on water and peace between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC and the Water, Peace & Security partnership 💬 A discussion on multi-faceted approaches to transforming governance to achieve water security for all under a new global initiative called Just Transitions for Water Security This year’s World Water Week focuses on the regional and global interconnectivity of communities and nations, and underscores the collaborative effort needed to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future. At Deltares, we recognise the need to connect levels, stakeholders, and areas of expertise. Want to learn more about our sessions or join us? Check 🔗 https://rebrand.ly/n7jzbnn #EnablingDeltaLife #WorldWaterWeek24

🎂 The adaptive pathways planning method is 10 years old! This method allows pivotal decisions to be aligned with multiple pathways under different futures. Researchers from Deltares, Utrecht University, Delft University of Technology, and the Climate Change Research Institute at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, have looked back on a decade of using adaptive pathways planning. Their study found that the method: 🚀 helps to accelerate adaptation 💡 generates new ideas 🔎 identifies path-dependency, barriers, and opportunities. Marjolijn Haasnoot, climate adaptation expert at Deltares:  “Our paper provides a rich overview and lessons of adaptive pathways applications. This can help to further accelerate adaptation which is much needed with the increasing climate change impacts worldwide.” Discover more about the adaptive pathways planning method and the lessons learned 🔗 https://rebrand.ly/rn3gc7f #EnablingDeltaLife #AdaptivePathwaysPlanning #ClimateAdaptation

🎢 A force of 5g – 5 times the Earth's gravity – can be felt briefly in the loop of a roller coaster. Anyone who's ever been on one will have experienced their own body getting 5 times heavier. The Deltares GeoCentrifuge can generate no less than 150g! In combination with the dimensions of the centrifuge platform, this puts it in the top 3 in Europe. 🤯 Among other things, our unique geotechnical test facility offers the possibility of "blowing up" scale models to actual proportions in terms of stresses and size. This will allow a scaled-up dyke of, say, 10cm high to behave like an actual dyke of 10m high at 100g. Want to know more or collaborate? Check out our website and get in touch > https://rebrand.ly/2c8435 #EnablingDeltaLife #Gforce #GeoCentrifuge

👀 Earlier this summer a group of our experts was in #Guatemala, where they could see firsthand what impact #plastic litter makes on the street and in the water. 🥤 The first photo shows an illegal dumping site near the capital. The stream (Las Vacas) is transporting truckloads of plastic litter that is dumped in its valley. Part of this is stopped by a barrier from The Ocean Cleanup. Unfortunately, they just dump the rest of the waste in the valley, instead of bringing it to a landfill. When it’s raining, a lot of the Las Vacas plastic litter flows into the Motagua, the biggest river in Guatemala. 💪 With our partner RiverImpact, we installed a simple barrier near the sea (photo 2). Within a day 50 -100 tons of debris was collected. The last photo shows the result of what an urban barrier can do: the stream is plastic free again! #EnablingDeltaLife #PlasticPollution

The Alpha Loop is a unique facility for testing and researching pipeline flow behaviours, including water, water-air, and water-air-sediment mixtures. Various clients and partners including industries, engineering firms, water authorities, and universities use the Alpha Loop to assess design and operational questions of pipeline systems. But it's also used by our own experts to test WANDA, our unique water hammer software. Are you interested but not sure how you can use our facility? Here are a few examples of typical flow phenomena that can be investigated: - Slug flows in long inclined pipelines - Solids re-entrainment in inclined pipes by air and water - Acceleration of liquid slugs resulting from a gas blow out - Rapid priming of pipelines - Dynamic performance of pressure relief valves - Performance and interaction of air valves - Pigging & Flushing - Leak detection Learn more on or website and get in touch with our experts > https://rebrand.ly/67297d #EnablingDeltaLife #PipelineInnovation #AlphaLoop #Hydraulics #Infrastructure

🌊 The Scheldt Flume facility is a 110 metres long and 1 meter wide wave flume. You can use the Scheldt flume to test breakwaters, seawalls, dams, dunes, spillways, and other coastal hydraulic constructions that can be influenced by wave impact loading. 2️⃣ The flume can also be split into 2 flumes, the Eastern and the Western Scheldt Flume. This way 2 projects can be performed simultaneously. It has wave generators at both sides; one is used for wave generation and one for wave dissipation. In this way, we can simulate ocean waves. 🤝 Want to do research in the Scheldt Flume? Get in touch through our website: https://rebrand.ly/8270e1 #EnablingDeltaLife #FacilityFriday #ResearchFacility #Waves