More recently, a new paradigm has emerged to make “room for the river”, combining innovative architecture, urbanisation and landscape solutions to build with nature and live with water. This new adaptive perspective (building with nature, living with water), also called “the Delta Works of the future”, partly motivated the adoption of the Delta Act in 2012. The act established the Delta Programme, the Delta Commissioner and the Delta Fund to advance an adaptive governance approach to respond to the country’s current and future challenges on water safety and freshwater supply.