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Tag Archives: water
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
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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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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
Posted in Engineering/Technology, Water
Tagged anthropogenic, concentrate, engineering, environment, forward osmosis, future, micropollutants, osmosis, public health, reverse osmosis, RO, water
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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
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Tagged aid, development, future, infrastructure, Nepal, sustainable, WaSH, water
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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 and a wonderful plenary program (which included a very educational keynote speech by the vice chairman of the China institute for innovation and … Continue reading
Posted in Urban, Water
Tagged environment, Flooding, future, infrastructure, urban, Wastewater, water, Watermanagement
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A rapper’s guide to Sustainable Shopping
During my time in university I was often too poor, too lazy or too busy to shop and I also did not want to buy stuff I didn’t need. This means my wardrobe so far has consisted for 80% out … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, fashion, female, future, shopping, sustainable, water
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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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Tagged Bangkok, environment, Flooding, Thailand, urban, Wastewater, water, Watermanagement
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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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Urban environmental management: Water
I recently made a prezi about urban environmental management focused on water. Let me know what you think!