Dommel River News Today

The high water is continuing to give many water boards and their employees a particularly busy Boxing Day, especially in the east and south of the country where people are experiencing flooding in various places. Pumping stations have been running at full capacity, water boards are flooding floodplains and storage areas, and sandbags and pumps are in need in various places. There was not yet a real emergency anywhere as of 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

Gerardo Osio weaves chair into weeping willow tree on the Dommel river Designer Gerardo Osio has woven the living branches of a weeping willow tree together to form a "living seat" along the Dommel river in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Osio developed the project, called Weeping Seat, as a student on the GEO-Design Masters course at Design Academy Eindhoven. Weeping Seat is a swing woven into a willow tree Weeping Seat explores ideas of how design can be improved and used in order to form a close...