Arjen is lead for Water Resources and Climate Change and is keen on hydrogeology, passionate about mapping, and eager to share WASH knowledge and facilitate learning. Arjen's background within IRC was as lead researcher for WASHCost Mozambique.
Arjen has twenty years sector experience – including five years as technical adviser South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan) and 13 years private sector experience in Mozambique and Uganda. He has hands-on experience in extensive water resource studies, detailed social surveys, quality assurance and thorough WASH data analysis and visualisation.
His academic background is an MSc in Hydrogeology and he is fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, German and has a reasonable command of Spanish. He is Dutch by nationality and currently lives near London with his family.
This paper highlights the problems for operation and maintenance in Latin America, where changes to an adjustment policy have not been reflected by a... Read more...
This article descibes steps taken in the United States to restrict water demand, including the setting up of water conservation offices, committees,... Read more...
The authors describe a piped water supply programme in 44 small towns in West-Java, Indonesia. Read more...
The case of Dopopani (the real name of the village has been disguised) represents a case study of how a government often attempts sweeping... Read more...
This article presents comments on "Financing water supply and sanitation under Agenda 21" by Briscoe and Garn (B&G). B&G argue that... Read more...
This paper explores the interactions of small wastewater treatment plants within an urban drainage system. It is noted that the characteristics of... Read more...