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.
Safe drinking water remains inaccessible for about 1.1 billion people in the world, and the hourly toll from biological contamination of drinking... Read more...
This article charts the progress of a two-year project, carried out by the ODA-funded Environmental Health Programme at the London School of Hygiene... Read more...
This article reports on the findings of the first field-trial to focus on factors determining a group of Kenyan villagers' choice of water source... Read more...
Describes a crystallisation process developed by DHV Water BV of the Netherlands for the recovery of fluoride from industrial wastewater. The process... Read more...
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...