What does truly integrated water management mean?

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We would like to know if you are coming. Please send an email to bestuurssecretariaat@noorderzijlvest.nl.

Integrated water management

The way we water-management work our water-management work is changing. Slowly but surely, we are beginning to have an open conversation about fundamental choices: 

• other land use
• other forms of nature and agriculture
• rethinking waterproofing the future
• working differently for future-proof added value in our region.

So we are taking action. Are we doing it right? Or are the steps we are taking still too small? Do we have a clear understanding of what integrated water management really means?

Where water and soil are truly intended to guide decision-making, competing interests come into play. We’ve observed this during our own research on “water and soil as guiding factors.” Noorderzijlvest Water Authority keeping the conversation on this topic going.

We would therefore like to invite you to a networking event. There, we want to inspire you with the process we are going through to shape the broad Groningen coastal zone in the future. We will also be focusing on the climate landscape of the northern Netherlands.

We hope that many of the people involved in our current and future water-management work ongoing research will have the opportunity to meet one another this evening.

Location

The evening will take place at the Waterschapshuis at Stedumermaar 1, Groningen.
We will guide you inside via our service entrance. The main entrance is currently under construction, but parking is available on our premises.

Noorderzijlvest Water Authority
Stedumermaar 1, 9735 AC Groningen

The program April 9 

• 7:00 p.m.: doors open
• 7:30 p.m.: Dijkgraaf Roeland van der Schaaf on our view of the necessity of integrated water management in which water and soil are the guiding factors.
• 7:45 p.m.: Jeroen Veraart, climate researcher at Wageningen University and involved in the creation of the railway timetable for the Broad Coastal Zone of Groningen: a process that is as integrated as possible.
• 8:15 p.m.: Mathijs Dijkstra, landscape architect at LAOS, on the climate landscape of the northern Netherlands and the unique position of the Lauwersmeer area.
• 8:40 p.m.: Executive committee member Annette van Velde on a Broad Coastal Zone that must continue to provide safety, for which we must already make tough choices.