{"id":135518,"date":"2024-11-20T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:20:40","slug":"a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"A giant tunnel and vast sponge parks: How Denmark is trying to avoid devastating floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135518\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Around the world, estimates suggest economic costs to cities from rising seas and inland flooding could top \u20ac950 billion by 2050. 20 metres below the city\u2019s surface, plans are underway to protect the Danish capital from the flooding that has devastated other parts of Europe. Kalvebod Brygge Tunnel stretches 1.3 km beneath the city before draining at Kalvebod Brygge waterfront area. It can store 10,000 cubic metres of water during heavy rain, known as a cloudburst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have an extreme situation where we have a lot of water falling in a short amount of time and the sewage systems, they just can&#8217;t keep up, we can instead divert the water here into this tunnel,\u201d explains Ditte Reinholdt Jensen, a climate change adaptation expert at Copenhagen\u2019s water utility firm, HOFOR. \u201cWe have 10,000 cubic metres of volume, but if that&#8217;s still not enough, then we have a pump that can empty out this entire tunnel in just ten minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cloudbursts are intense weather events when more than 10 cm of rainfall occurs within a 10 square-kilometre region within just an hour. They have the potential to wreak havoc, causing intense flooding. They occur most commonly in India and Pakistan. In July this year, flash floods and cloudbursts caused devastating damage in several areas of Uttarakhand. Experts say the frequency of such events has been increasing globally in recent years, partly due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change made Central Europe\u2019s deadly flooding twice as likely, scientists say . \u2018We had just finished repairing our houses\u2019: Flooding hits Italian city for third time in 16 months.\u00a0 Kalvebod Brygge Tunnel is designed to store a sudden amount of rain so strong that it will statistically occur just once every 100 years &#8211; a \u2018once-in-a-century\u2019 flood event. \u201cWe are looking at a changing climate and that is going to affect the amount of rain that we will need to manage,\u201d says Reinholdt Jensen.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/11\/20\/a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/11\/20\/a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods\/\">A giant tunnel and vast sponge parks: How Denmark is trying to avoid devastating floods<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3794,17000,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-135518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-denmark","tag-devastating-floods","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}