Productions
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7 November 2008
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BBC Scotland Eorpa
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The Dutch water protection test |
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The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the 'Water Test', a national floods simulation exercise. The participants of the 'Water Test' are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and services will practice the operational preparation and handling of simulated floods. The 'water test' is mainly a simulation exercise with a few visible elements like the bursting of a dike, evacuation, the reinforcement of dunes and a multidisciplinary rescue operation. A reportage about the latest Dutch plans to fight the rising sea water and increasing amounts of river water ending up in the Netherlands. A full coverage of one of the flood disaster simulations, a research into the future plans to protect the Netherlands from possible floods and a portrait of a man that experienced the Dutch floods in 1953.
Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompanying filming, driving, organise archive footage.