Keeping Out the Sea Water

The netherlands has an incredibly ensive system of pumps that controls the water level. First they built dikes around individual villages, then as regions became kind of realities through political power, they would connect those individual village or city dikes and make them into regional dikes. These were the solutions that the dutch needed before climate chain started to lead to sea level rise. Now they are working overtime on new techniques. They are planning to expand their sandy coast, which has a dune line. That dune line is the effective barrier between them and the sea. And there theyre trying to what they call build with nature, or imitate nature by moving huge quantities of sand and dumping