Despite severe drought, there is also a risk of flooding

Despite severe drought there is also a risk of flooding

Because it is precisely because of the drought that the water level in the Groene Hart is on the high side, which increases the risk of flooding. Dijkgraaf Jeroen Haan of Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden knows that drought is easy to predict, but how different it is with precipitation. “It is almost impossible to tell where and when the rain will fall.”

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