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Tag Archives: development
How nuclear weapons could save the world
Remember the world before November 2016? Happy and hopeful, gradually becoming a better place and most of us were working towards human equality, freedom, life in balance with nature by building a more durable economy. Then the US elections came … Continue reading
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
Posted in Social, Water
Tagged Ahmedabad, development, environment, future, India, Industry, information technology, public health, sanitation, slums, social behaviour, urban, Wastewater, water, water quality, Watermanagement
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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
Posted in Engineering/Technology, Water
Tagged development, engineering, environment, fashion, future, Industry, public health, urban, Wastewater, water
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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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Tagged development, engineering, future, urban, water, Watermanagement
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Water to Nepal – emergency aid
The recent earthquakes in Nepal have left much of the population without basic utilities like good quality drinking water. It takes some time before these basic untilities have become available due to the lack of material and the difficulties faced … Continue reading
Posted in WaSH
Tagged aid, development, future, infrastructure, Nepal, sustainable, WaSH, water
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Human trails in an urban environment
I love walking around a city and observe people, and observe how people interact with the urban environment. In the same way you would if you were to study a group of monkeys in their natural habitat. And just like … Continue reading
Posted in Social, Urban
Tagged development, dutch cross, environment, gum, infrastructure, public health, social behaviour, urban, waste
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Do you know what it feels like for a girl?
In light of the new UN campaign He For She I decided to write my story as a female engineer in a man’s world. Let me start with stating I belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities and … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering/Technology, Social
Tagged development, Emma Watson, engineering, equality, female, future, gender, girls, UN
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Linking public health and urban planning
Since the beginning of March 2014 I have been following the online course TechniCity to further educate me in the future of cities. In this course I have learned about the increasing availability of networks, sensors and mobile technologies, which allow … Continue reading
Posted in Social, Urban
Tagged Amsterdam, development, environment, future, infrastructure, public health, urban
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Exploring challenges in water, sanitation and hygiene
The Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG7) Target 10 is to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. Almost 1.9 billion people gained access to improved sanitation facilities from 1990 to … Continue reading
Development of sanitation infrastructure in slums
In the spring of 2013 I followed the course Managing Urban Environmental Infrastructure at Wageningen University. As part of the work my group developed a possible scenario for the development of the sanitation infrastructure in slums. The following part was … Continue reading
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Tagged development, engineering, environment, infrastructure, sanitation, slums, urban, WaSH, water
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