The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts
On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and services will practice the operational preparation and handling of simulated floods. The ‘water test’ is mainly a simulation exercise with a few visible elements like the bursting of a dike, an evacuation, the reinforcement of dunes and a multidisciplinary rescue operation.
The Scottish BBC program Eòrpa produces a background reportage about the latest Dutch plans to fight the rising sea water and increasing amounts of river water flowing through the Dutch delta. One of the Dutch flood disaster simulations is filmed and spokesperson of the Water Test explains why and test takes place. A former member of the so called Delta Commission and a flood specialist form the University of Delft are interviewed about the future plans to protect the Netherlands from possible floods and a man that experienced the Dutch floods in 1953 in the south west province Zeeland is portrayed.
For this reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a rental car, did the driving, accompanied the filming did the interviews and translations, and organised archive footage from the floods in 1953.