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Resilient cities are better prepared for chronic stress and sudden disasters. The 100 Resilient Cities initiative helps them to cope and Deltares is an active discussion partner. 'It's plain and simple: water management is not a choice. Cities will have to include it in their strategies and transform, or suffer the consequences.' DOSSIER 9 More than half of the global population live in cities: cities are appealing. But they are also vulnerable. Earthquakes, floods, terror, epidemics. Disasters can be a fact of life but preparing for them is something we can control. Because you can organise resilience with things like good water management. Look at the 100 Resilient Cities initiative. Or take Mexico City, Singapore and New Orleans, that are working on resilience, each in their own way, but with one common denominator: urban resilience. Urban resilience