Sinking, shrinking, saltier deltas

How to deal with these issues?

Wednesday 26th of August, 10:00 – 10:45

Undock pane from Control Panel

SIWI World Water Week

August 26th, 2020

Kim van Nieuwaal, director Delta Alliance

Sinking, shrinking and saltier deltas;

How to deal with these challenges?

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Policy brief and Brochure recently published

Available at: www.delta-alliance.org

Policy brief

• Describes the challenges and the actionable approaches to counteract

human-induced land subsidence

• Recommendations are made on policy and governance, technology,

capacity building and financing aspects

Brochure

• Step-by-step approach illustrated by real life example cases

• First edition published in 2013 (updated in 2015)

Human-induced land subsidence

in low-laying urbanizing deltas and coastal zones compared to sea level rise

Thank you. Let’s work on our beautiful deltas together!

www.delta-alliance.org