Drents Diep (mp3) (pdf) (tab)
In the Northern part of the Netherlands is a lot of land that was used for agrigulture for a long time till a couple of decades ago. The Dutch have to deal with living below sealevel while de sealevels are rising because of the global warming. A lot of land is nowadays a buffer for the water. We can steer the water into a direction instead of making the dikes bigger and bigger. We call that watermanagement.
The advantage is that we now have a lot more wild nature with variable waterlevels and a beautiful place for the birds who love a wet environment. I've seen Sterns, Tureluurs, Geese and a lot more.
Drents Diep (officially called Drentsche Diep) is an old part of the early river "The Hunze" in the Westerbroeksemadepolder. My bicycle path goes over that waterway and I stopped to find some inspiration for a tune.
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