Tag Archives: Watermanagement

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

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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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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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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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