Category Archives: Water

Wastewater in Ahmedabad – part 2 : A SOLUTION

My previous blog described an excursion to factories discharging their wastewater in the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad. As part of the program Wetskills I joined a collaboration between 11 other Dutch participates and 13 participants from India to solve 5 … Continue reading

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Wastewater in Ahmedabad – part 1: THE PROBLEM

Last week I was in India, in the city of Ahmedabad, standing on a bridge over the river Sabarmati. The sun is shining bright and the view over the river basin is incredible. I had just returned from a full … Continue reading

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Whatever floats your boat

Last march I participated in a 36 hour engineering challenge organized by VPDelta in the harbor of Rotterdam. The challenges was to build a floating platform with the main purpose of urban poor residential usage, full scale size 6m x … Continue reading

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Mobile monitoring – learning from nature

The future of monitoring is always up for discussion, since costs can be reduced and efficiency can be improved. In the spring of last year I had an idea about mobile monitoring which could be interesting. To guarantee sufficient drinking … Continue reading

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Are we going forward or reverse?

In the Netherlands we are very proud of our tap water. It is of excellent quality, widely available and incredibly cheap. Due to the reasonably good quality of surface waters and the good quality of the groundwater sources it has … Continue reading

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The perfect urban delta

Yesterday I had the privilege to attend the KIVI year conference focused on Delta Cities. After 3 sessions andĀ  a wonderful plenary program (which included a very educational keynote speech by theĀ vice chairman of the China institute for innovation and … Continue reading

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Water stories in Thailand

After graduating in October of 2013 I had the opportunity to travel through South East Asia for 3 months, this blog is based on that experience. Bangkok First off, Bangkok, the city that seems, smells and sounds like unorganized chaos. … Continue reading

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Urban environmental management: Water

I recently made a prezi about urban environmental management focused on water. Let me know what you think!

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