Many of the city's buildings have been turned into water storage facilities

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Numerous structures around the city transform into water storage facilities,including parking garages and plazas which normally serve as theaters and sports arenas.Meanwhile in the harbor, floating pavilions rise with the water level.These are the first of several planned amphibious structures,some of which house water purification systems and solar collectors.These strategies are just some of the technologies and policies that have put the Netherlands at the cutting edge of water management.The country continues to find new ways to make cities more resilient to natural disasters.And as the rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten low-lying cities across the world,the Netherlands offers an exceptional example of how to go with the flow.

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