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Finances

Close up Do it the Dutchway, a well known phrase all over the world. Surpring that those means Dutch spend over 11 bilion guilders to a piece of land with less than 300.000 inhabitants.

For centuries the Dutch were busy claiming land from the sea. Each square meter of fertile land had to be fought for.

It was never thought to make these Delatsworks as expensive but many concessions had to be made to nature and environment. The Delta was the origin of life in the Noordzee and this had to maintained.