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 desk study examines the implications of the growing private sector participation in urban water supply (UWS) on the administrative capacity of... Read more...
The pressure on limited freshwater resources increases to meet the escalating demands of households, municipalities and industry. Read more...
The scarcity of freshwater is now an important issue in many parts of the world. Read more...
Without an amicable agreement between the countries of the Middle East to develop and use scarce water resources on an equitable basis, neither a... Read more...
This background discussion paper has been developed within Saferworld's two-year research project on 'Prevention of violent conflict and the... Read more...
The objective of this publication is to provide a short, accessible overview of what may be considered 'good practice' in emergency water and... Read more...
People in developing countries are generally not aware of the impacts their activities on the land have on groundwater quality. Read more...
This thesis has eight chapters. An introductory chapter is followed by a chapter which elaborates the conceptual framework. Read more...
Evaluation report of the Swedish-Botswana Co-operation Programme on District Development Support. Decentralization of the government has been an... Read more...
It has long been recognized that self-help projects are often more effective than projects designed by engineers or governments, due to the degree of... Read more...