‘The danger and value of water are in my blood’: how rain fences are making Dutch homes more climate resilient

High water level in the River IJssel during the 2021 floods. The lower-lying Netherlands is increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Photograph: Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images

Good fences make good neighbours – but rain fences could make even better ones.

That is the hope of housing corporations in the Netherlands, which are adopting rainwater storage in their garden fences.