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SCIENCE
rising tide

No matter which computer model is used, it indicates the sea level will rise
significantly within the next few decades – at the end of the 21st century it is
estimated that the sea level will on average be about one hundred centimetres
higher than today. In South-East Asia and the Pacific Territories, the increase will
be much higher even. Worldwide, the consequences of this rise can already be
felt. And water touches on all big issues of today: climate change, security, energy
supply, poverty, population growth, agriculture, urbanisation and migration. Like

Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
Henk Ovink, once said: “If we don’t do anything, we’ll drown.” Definition Episodes
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In his acclaimed photo series Where will we go?, Kadir van Lohuizen in 2013-2015 Witfilm 2019
already recorded what this development means to the inhabitants of low-lying
areas like the United Kingdom, Kiribati, Miami and Bangladesh. In Rising tide, he
revisits the people and places that touched him...