News & Projects

08-06-2022 Last week, our colleague Victor Langenberg was in wonderful and exciting Morocco for water and salinity assessments, stakeholder meetings and mapping of water-agri opportunities for next steps, together with Arjen de Vos of The Salt Doctors doctors (Texel).

We traveled to the magnificent…

31-01-2022 We are proud that NWO has approved our research proposal on ’Climate-proof agriculture in the salinating coastal zone of the Netherlands: innovative water management, adaptive agriculture and promising transition paths (AGRICOAST)’. The consortium of Delft University of Technology, Wageningen…

02-07-2020 The photo of June 2020 shows crop damage due to salinization above the tile drainage on an agricultural field in Texel, one of the islands of the Netherlands. Last week there was considerable salinization damage due to rising salt into the root zone above the tile drainage. Earlier within…

05-08-2019 The deeper groundwater in the Dutch province of Zeeland and other coastal provinces of the Netherlands is salt, and salinization of the scarce sweet (ground) water occurs when too much groundwater is extracted for irrigation during dry periods.
 
Over the next 2 years, The project Delta…