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 paper is based on comparable cross-sectional studies of household environmental problems in three cities with differing proportions of poor... Read more...
Describes and lists the achievements of the 'wash your hands after using the latrine' campaign introduced in the Rural Water and Sanitation East... Read more...
Bolivia has a long history of building rural water and sanitation systems which focus on technical merits, with little consideration given to... Read more...
The decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs has become the focus of recent political debate. Read more...
The new Government of South Africa through its Reconstruction and Development Programme has recognized the link between the provision of safe... Read more...