Tomorrow always seems rather far away. But if one thing was clear from this year's annual CEDA Dredging Days - held in the Ahoy Conference Center in Rotterdam from November 7 through 9 - tomorrow is actually here and now. Consider climate change and global warming, consider the constant demands for energy and the growing populations living in coastal zones. And consider that by pure chance, this event with the theme, "The day after we stop dredging" took place just at the moment that an enormous nor'easter threatened the coastlines of the countries bordering the North Sea. For the first time in its history, since it was finished a decade ago, the Maeslantkering Barrier, south of Rotterdam, was closed, as was the Thames River Barrier in London.
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