Delta Management Some reflections

Pieter Bloemen Staff Delta Programme Commissioner New Orleans March 16 - 2012

Netherlands: less than one third of Louisiana in surface more than three times the population 60 % susceptible to flooding from rivers and / or sea
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The past

First Delta Commission

The present & future: Delta under increasing pressure

More /extreme storms More/intense rainfall

Spatial developments Salt intrusion Subsidence

Increased river discharge Decreased river discharge

Sea level rise

Increased erosion

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Report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) May 2011
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Katrina the wake-up call

2008: Advice by second Delta Commission (Veerman)

Ensuring continuity in efforts

Delta Programme: Launched in 2010 Watersafety and sweetwatersupply; 2050 / 2100 Delta Act: Legal base; in effect since 1-1-2012 Delta Fund long term financial stability (1 billion/yr) Government Commissioner for the Delta Programme Every year to Parliament
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Physical system Measures Event Input Societal system System I. Find out how the system works II. Optimise the working of the system
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Output

Optimising A. Cost efficiency B. Governance C. Committment

Multi-layer safety
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A. Costefficiency B. Interdependence/solid.

Chances for an adequate reaction (in present setting)

E.g.: LA Highway and Port Fourchon: crucial - 18% of the nations oil - 90% of the offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico

Interdependence Solidarity Budget

E.g.: Decision criterium Distribution of risks all socio-economic groups Zeeland E.g.: Oil/gas comp. (PPS)

Europe

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C. Commitment, community resilience, entrepreneurship

Business opportunities Committed entrepreneurs Committed investors Committed politicians: Senator Mary Landrieu We are not rebuilding the city Im not the retreating type we used to be, we are building If you havent got the waterissue right the rest is the11city we always wanted to be Delta Programme Commissioner of no use