Severe Drought in The Netherlands




July 13, 2018


This Dear Mr. Deyo,

I just watched your contribution of this week on the Hagmann Report.

Just a short report from Middelburg, in the SW of The Netherlands.

We have had no rain here in almost the whole month of June and now in July as well. We had two drops and a droplet earlier this week, but that is all. It is SOOO dry here. The lawns in the park behind my apartment is yellow. The authorities have now forbidden farmers to spray their land with surface water - imagine that in a country where water is a problem (to much of it!). It is beginning to hurt. Yesterday the TV News here showed a farmer bringing in his cows and begin feeding them with winter supplies. The grass won't grow anymore. In some places groundwater levels have already fallen so deep that farmers cannot pump it anymore.

Temperatures are not extremely high (27-30 C) but the drought is beginning to hurt. And it is not only Holland, a friend of mine in Bergen - Norway has the same experience. Amazing!

You also mentioned nuclear powerplants? I live some 20 KM's from Borssele where a nuclear powerplant is. It recently became known that the plant was shut down twice just in time because something went wrong. On the other side of the Westerschelde River in Belgium, in Doel, all 4 nuclear plants have been shut down because of problems (3 of them have been down for a long time). The last one has a problem with pipelines in the nuclear part the reactor itself. That is some 70 Km's East from where I live.

My best to you and Holly!

Wim Janse