Field lab ’WaterStraat’ on TU Delft Campus celebrates five years of innovation

The recent news is abundantly clear: severe weather, yellow code alerts, and water damage in large parts of the country. Due to climate change, we can expect more heat and drought, but also more rainfall in a short period of time. And when it rains, it pours. A densely built environment with a lot of hard surfaces is not resilient. It needs to be different in many places, but how? Five years ago, The Green Village, VPdelta+, and the Hoogheemraadschap of Delfland established the WaterStraat (WaterStreet) on TU Delft Campus to provide space for innovation and research to help us deal with extreme weather in urban areas. Back in a time when spatial adaptation was not yet part of the Delta Programme. Today, the fifth anniversary was celebrated, and the achieved successes and lessons learnt were shared.