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Holland has much water, a big
reason is that a big part of Holland is lower as the sea level.
Holland has two big rivers, the Meuse and the Rhine, the Rhine is
the biggest. At the Rhine's mouth lays the biggest seaport of the
world, Europoort in Rotterdam. Because Holland is for a big part
lower as the sea surface Holland cannot stay dry without the
dike's, it happened many times that a dike had broken and a big
part of Holland came under water. One of the biggest disasters in
the history of Holland was the flood of 1953, at that flood
almost the whole province Zealand came under water and more then
1800 inhabitants of Holland died. That disaster was the reason
that people started with a very big project, the Deltaplan.
But water is not every time bad, Holland has many times used the
water. Hundreds of years ago many of castels had a ring of water
around it, and much people live of fishing. And a big part of the
Dutch trade is done by ships, and ships cannot sail without
water.