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Looking back at a productive Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). Singapore and The Netherlands are working and learning together on water management in a changing climate as we have much in common as low-lying urbanized countries: 💧Gertjan Medema honored with water prize for work on COVID surveillance in wastewater 💧 happy to lead economic mission with dozen 🇳🇱 organisations. 💧signed 🇳🇱- 🇸🇬 MOU to support IPCC working group 2 on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability 💧Rijkswaterstaat launched flood management handbook. 💧#I-STORM knowhow exchange on storm surge barriers. 💧Great to finally be at PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, one of the great public utilities of the world (& the only one with its own #NewBeer 🍻) 💧Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Singapore joined forces with EKNs in #ASEAN5. 💧 reconnecting with old water friends and making new ones. NWP (Netherlands Water Partnership) Netherlands Netherlands Enterprise Agency Partners for Water Inclusive Green Growth Department Marc Walraven Bart van den HurkWinston Chow Anneke Adema Maria Angelica Sotomayor Gustavo Saltiel Barbara Swart Tom Groot Haar Astrid Seegers Liliane Geerling Sandra Pompe
So happy to welcome you to Singapore! Glad to hear that it’s been a good Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) for you and the Dutch delegations!
Great the MoU between SG and NL has been signed, that arranges the fruitful collaboration for IPCC Working Group 2 between the support units of Winston Chow and myself
Always a pleasure to see you. See you soon!!!
Congrats dear Meike
A great pleasure to see you again Meike van Ginneken !
Senior Advisor Storm Surge Barriers bij Rijkswaterstaat
1moIndeed Meike, great conference, great hospitality by PUB and good discussions with many PUB representatives that really started the cooperation on sharing knowledge and experience regarding storm surge barrier maintenance and operations and integrating lessons learned into new design 👍