HLN RESEARCH. The government itself made the floods worse last year: a gamble with a reservoir had disastrous consequences

According to Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open Vld), the 41 people who died last summer during the flooding in the Ardennes are Belgium’s first climate victims. Research by Het Laatste Nieuws shows that there is more going on: the government itself played a role in the scale of the disaster. Two errors of judgment sent billions of liters of extra water through the streets of cities such as Eupen, Verviers and Pepinster. With disastrous consequences.

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