Stef Smits is a senior programme officer and Co-director of IRC's Growth Hub. He has 20 years of professional experience in water supply and sanitation in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America, Southern Africa, and South Asia. His main thematic expertise includes: institutional models for water supply, sustainability and enabling environment, monitoring, costing and financing of services and integrated water resources management.
Stef has led numerous projects on these topics, and published about them. In addition, he has ample management expertise: from consultancy assignments to multi-annual programmes, and units within an organisation. He has worked for a range of clients including bilateral donors, development banks, research funders and NGOs. Stef holds an MSc degree in Irrigation and Water Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
The application of a biological method of river quality management called the Nepalese Biotic Score (NEPBIOS) is describes. Read more...
The first chapter of this book: Traditional Water Harvesting : A Multi-millenial Mission examines how water has been harvested in India since... Read more...
Zimbabwe's water pollution problems, caused by mining, industry, ordinary farming, and agricultural-product processing, have not yet reached the... Read more...
Between January 1987 and February 1988, 4590 homes of children under five years of age were visited in three areas of Kurunegala district, Sri Lanka... Read more...
As part of a research project on Alzheimer's disease and aluminium in drinking water, this article discusses chemical considerations relative to... Read more...
This article attempts to set out the major issues of the new integrated water resource management (WRM) policy for further debate rather than giving... Read more...
A key lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium A.D. Read more...