How one Dutchman plans to keep America’s cities safe from flooding

Many see Hurricane Sandy as merely a taste of what’s to come for coastal regions like the New York tri-state area as sea levels rise, and it’s led to a call for action. But there are two approaches to tackling the water: either try to forcefully block it with walls and similar devices, or work around the water and give it a place to go. The latter approach has recently been championed in the Netherlands and last year one of the top minds in charge of keeping the Dutch dry came to work for the Obama administration.