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On 3 January 2018, as high water coincided with a storm, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands were closed simultaneously in a historic first.
With over a quarter of land below sea level, the country has invested heavily in flexible flood defences.
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MOSE (Hydrology 💧)
MOSE is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding. The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile gates, installed on the seafloor at the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets, that can be raised to temporarily seal off the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea during ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE
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