The Dutch government adjusted its new water policy on several points under pressure from the agriculture lobby, Trouw reports based on confidential drafts of the Minister’s letter to parliament. Officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure wrote that the texts about a permit requirement and groundwater extraction ban were “very important” to “LNV/LTO.” And in the final letter Harbers sent to …
The municipality of Arnhem on Wednesday presented its plan to deal with the consequences of climate change. More than 10 percent asphalt removal is not possible, because Arnhem does not want to hinder accessibility, alderman Cathelijne Bouwkamp said to the newspaper. "Both adaption to climate change and combating it are necessary," climate expert Marjolein Pijpers-Van Esch of Delft University of …
