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Nature

Woods After finishing the Deltaworks there was only one looser: Nature.
Since time men controls 'Mother Earth'. So this time.
On many places where salt water used to flow, now fresh water rests. Constructing many dams and dikes resulted in disappearing of tidal movements. Whole populations of saltwater plants and fish disappeared.

Life in the Oosterschelde would vanish if nothing would happen. Environmental activists protested. A new design of the Flood Barier was the result.