{"id":806,"date":"2025-10-02T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/van-der-zaag-pieter\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:33","slug":"van-der-zaag-pieter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-der-zaag-pieter\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Der Zaag Pieter"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPieter van der Zaag<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"van der Zaag Pieter\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/van-der-zaag-pieter\/325649-1-eng-gb\/van-der-zaag-pieter_author.jpg\" alt=\"van der Zaag Pieter\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Pieter van der Zaag is professor of water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education&nbsp;and at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has special interests in agricultural water management, water allocation issues in catchment areas and in the management of transboundary river basins. Pieter is fascinated by the dynamic relationship between biophysical and social processes when managing water, which he tries to describe and analyse. He has been involved in several multidisciplinary research and capacity building projects mainly in Africa but also in Asia and Latin America. He is member of the governing board of WaterNet in Southern Africa, is associate editor of Water Policy and is member of the editorial board of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Pieter studied irrigation engineering at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD degree on a study of irrigation management in Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/water-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/water-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/325662-1-eng-gb\/water-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda_column.jpg\" alt=\"Water and the post-2015 development agenda\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/water-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/\">Water and the post-2015 development agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-der-zaag-pieter\/\">Pieter van der Zaag<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t17 February 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe post-2015 agenda on water calls for more cohesion and less pragmatism.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/human-security\/\" title=\"Human Security\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/human-security\/88474-122-eng-gb\/human-security_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Human Security\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/water-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieter van der Zaag Organisation: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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