The Delta Viewer is an interactive presentation that addresses general topics like: what exactly are the water-related problems and issues facing the Netherlands? How can we keep our feet dry and ensure we have sufficient freshwater in the future?
The Delta Programme translates such problems and issues into tasks and solutions, and the Delta Viewer visualises the effects that measures taken in one region have on the water-related tasks in another. For example, adjusting the distribution of the discharges from branches of the Rhine.
The Delta Viewer is aimed at making people aware of such problems. Given that we receive so many requests from abroad concerning our water problems and solutions, we have translated the Delta Viewer into English.
The English version of the Delta Viewer will be unveiled during World Water Day at the World Forum in The Hague on 22 March. The Netherlands is hosting the international World Water Day celebrations.
International year of water cooperation
2013 is the United Nations International year of water cooperation. Good drinking water is scarce and although in the Netherlands access to it is taken for granted, for many people across the globe this is not the case. Moreover, increasingly more people worldwide are living and working in delta regions and are regularly confronted by flooding. As a ''water land” , the Netherlands has a great deal of knowledge and experience at its disposal to assist in tackling such problems.
The design
In an appealing way, the Delta Viewer visualises how the Netherlands has battled water in the past, and how it is battling water in the present and will do so in the future. after the introduction which shows the relationship between the various problems and issues, the user can select information at the regional or national level. In this way, users can gain insight into how regional and national matters are linked, and learn about the cohesion between the issues and possible measures.
Updates
The Delta Viewer will be updated annually. It will use the content of the Delta Programme that is presented to the House of Representatives every year on Prinsjesdag (the state opening of parliament).