The Daily Telegraph exaggerates a bit by misquoting and suggesting that two thirds of the Netherlands would be flooded. Nevertheless, it is good to realize that now it is time for alternatives -as described mostly in Dutch on this website- that go with the sea rather than struggling against it. So, for our non-Dutch readers, we reproduce here the Dutch cure as written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on September 8, 2004, in the UK newspaper.