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Reuters devoted a TV special to a new Dutch way of coping with the effects of global warming: rising sea levels and more rain in autumn and winter. Instead of keeping fighting the water, the future is with floating houses. One Dutch academic thinks that floating houses will not just be a fashionable lifestyle but a necessity in the coming years. On the shorter term, families are already buying comfortable floating houses, 500 of which are now build in Amsterdam’s new area IJburg. Click here for a summary of the TV program.

We apologize that, so far, this site is mostly in Dutch. Fortunately, Reuters devoted a TV special on floating houses. The English summary of the TV program is now on our web site.
Also, the English section of the Financieel Dagblad covered a TU Delft seminar on Floating Cities in its March 9, 2001 edition.