Water barrier for a passage

A water barrier for a passage, particularly for persons or vehicles, or part of such a passage, which water barrier is movable between a storage position in which the passage can be passed through and a water-retaining position in which water passing through the passage is prevented, wherein the water barrier comprises a flexible, watertight cloth and a series of rigid segments, such as planks, wherein the segments are individually attached to the cloth and in the water-retaining position of the water barrier at least substantially connect to each other, wherein the segments are elongated, with their main direction transverse to the series direction of the segments, wherein the segments are situated on both sides of the cloth and preferably are substantially similar to each other, and wherein the segments situated on opposite sides of the cloth are tensioned towards each other, while clamping the cloth between them.

Water barrier according to 69, wherein of a first and an in series direction adjacent second pair of segments that are situated on both sides of the cloth, the adjacent segments situated on a first side of the cloth, in particular the water-retaining side of the cloth, have been shaped with said lower first edge and said upper second edge, and wherein of the adjacent segments situated on the opposite second side of the cloth the one segment has a lower first edge situated opposite the lip-shaped lower first edge of the segment on the first side of the cloth and abutting the cloth, and preferably is situated receded with respect to said lip-shaped edge.