1 00:00:02,870 --> 00:00:05,870 Is there a risk of flooding or perhaps a water shortage? 2 00:00:09,873 --> 00:00:13,320 The Departmental Coordination Centre for Crisis Management... 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,000 ...of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (DCC I&W)... 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,840 ...has twenty mobile pumps at its disposal. 5 00:00:21,472 --> 00:00:24,920 Government organisations from both the Netherlands and abroad... 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,360 ...can submit an application to the DCC I&W for the use of an emergency pump. 7 00:00:31,256 --> 00:00:37,560 A fixed team of experts from Rijkswaterstaat assesses the situation and puts together a team for the task. 8 00:00:38,262 --> 00:00:43,800 To do so, they can call upon experts from a flexible pool of pump-specialists from the water boards. 9 00:00:44,678 --> 00:00:49,040 The pump and the team of experts are transported to the crisis location. 10 00:00:49,830 --> 00:00:56,080 There are two types of pumps and the largest pump is capable of draining an Olympic swimming pool in thirty minutes. 11 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:01,280 Is your basement flooded? These pumps are not made for this purpose. 12 00:01:01,403 --> 00:01:06,480 They can be used instead, for example, to clear water in the event of a leak in the dike. 13 00:01:07,007 --> 00:01:12,880 To circulate water in a lake to eliminate algae, or to drain flooded areas after heavy rainfall. 14 00:01:14,338 --> 00:01:19,120 The pumps only work in water that is at least one and a half metres deep. 15 00:01:19,699 --> 00:01:23,040 The drain pipes are too big for shallower areas. 16 00:01:23,936 --> 00:01:29,000 During the long period of drought in 2018, the pumps were used to transfer salt water... 17 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,640 ...from the IJsselmeer to the Wadden Sea. 18 00:01:33,477 --> 00:01:38,520 The pump does this by spewing water out from the IJsselmeer over into the Wadden Sea. 19 00:01:39,828 --> 00:01:47,040 Once a pump is requested, it can be operational in the Netherlands within 12 hours and on location abroad within three days.