Why haven't the Netherlands sunk yet?

A third of the Netherlands lies below sea level. Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the country's main airport were all drawn by nature as seafloor. So why hasn't it drowned? This is the story of how a small nation declared war on the ocean — and won, at a price it is still paying today. We cover: · How windmills became pumps, and how the Dutch stole land from the sea · The Afsluitdijk — the 32 km wall that turned an entire sea into a lake · Flevoland, the largest artificial island on the planet · The night of 31 January 1953, and the 1,836 people it killed · The Delta Works and the Oosterscheldekering — 65 concrete pillars, each heavier than the Eiffel Tower · Why the gates of that wall stay open almost all the time · The hidden cost: a country sentenced to pumping water forever "We don't fight the water. We negotiate with it — from a position of strength." Next video: how this same country, with almost no land, ended up feeding a billion people. Subscribe so you don't miss it. — Music Credits: Music: Phobia by Soundridemusic Link to Video:   • Tense Cinematic NoCopyright Background Mus...   — #Netherlands #Holland #Geography #Engineering #History #SeaLevel #DeltaWorks #Afsluitdijk #Amsterdam #Documentary #Megastructures #CivilEngineering #Flooding #Dutch #Geopolitics