Almost 400 people visited the Westland demosite in 2015

Since the transformation of Westland demosite to a complete Showcase (including information panels, instruction movies, guide tours and scale model) in the second half of 2015, almost 400 visitors were welcomed. These visitors included stakeholders, scientists, water managers, students, and neighbours. The size of visiting groups also showed an interesting variation: from 4 (geohydrologists from Rotterdam) to 24 (student excursion) to 120 persons (IAHR Congress, held in Rotterdam).

The largest Dutch industrial parties visited the showcase in December 2015. Despite their significant water consumption, this was the first time they were informed on the potential of the subsurface to provide temporal storage reservoir.

In May 2016, the visitors of the Adaptation Futures Conference will visit the site during a field trip and in March 2016 the DESSIN consortium will visit the demo-site during a project meeting.

During the official opening of the Showcase in August 2015