The Netherlands in the Philippines: Opportunities for Water Managment and Sanitation

25 January 2023.  (9:00 am - 10:30 am NL Time; 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PH Time)

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than seven thousand islands housing approximately 110 milion people. As many of its urban and most densely populated areas are coastal, this provides a wide variety of water-related challenges. A strong demand for improvements in water supply, wastewater treatment, sanitation, water quality and flood management exists in the Philippines. Soil erosion further threatens to impact irrigation as well as drainage canals, resulting in Dutch expertise in dredging and reclamation to be added to the Dutch portfolio of ongoing projects.

This situation is expected to worsen given the country's rising population and increased competition for water usages, both agricultural and industrial, with a dwindling water supply. This was brought about by decades of resource mismanagement, inadequate investments in physical infrastructure, and the growing threat of climate change…