Advice

How to manage water resources? Is it just a matter of matching supplies to demands? Should water and its quality be recognised for its wider role in life? How to prepare public decisions on water, which are widely supported yet affordable? Questions without easy answers as interests, ideas and stakeholders diverge.

Kees Blok works on such questions and combines insights in technical aspects – and in socio-economic and institutional contexts – with experience in communication and participation.

Example 1

How can safety of lives and certainty of yields in a delta region be increased in a cost-effective manner?
Working in a planning unit of the Government of Bangladesh, Kees Blok helps develop plans for – and monitors the implementation of – medium and small-scale flood control, drainage and irrigation projects.