Overview
- Provincial review with Vitens found no technical or permitable option to add sufficient drinking water within the next decade.
- Vitens’ legal duty to households keeps residential supply protected, restricting companies to small connections since 2024.
- Governments will work with the business community on alternative water-use measures, with companies taking primary responsibility.
- Urk’s fish-processing sector faces curtailed expansion, putting plans for the Port of Urk development under pressure.
- TenneT has separately warned that parts of Flevoland’s high-voltage grid are at capacity, limiting new or larger power hookups for firms.