A career overview and selected classified archive to published work from 1972 to 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

• Fractured Aquifer
  Dynamics
• Groundwater
  Pollution Protection
• Strategic Role of Groundwater
• Groundwater
  Governance
  & Management
• Urban Groundwater
• Agriculture &
  Groundwater
• Global Vision of Groundwater 

Most publications listed are available as pdf downloads  – for access to others use reference libraries.

• developed concept of a World Bank- Groundwater Management Advisory Team (jointly with Dr John Briscoe) at the 2^nd World Water Forum (Den Haag–March 2000) and subsequently put into operation under Dutch, British, Danish & Swedish trust funding (jointly with Dr Karin Kemper), developing a global reputation for authoritative advice on groundwater management and protection
• the GW-MATE initiative generated an extensive Briefing Note Series and Case Profile Collection in the public domain (www.worldbank.org/gwmate  and http://www.un-igrac.org/gwmate ) on this neglected aspect of water resources management

Focusing IAH on Development Agenda

• as IAH–Burdon Commission Chair during 1987-1997, and later as IAH President during 2004-08, made a major effort to address groundwater concerns of developing nations (www.iah.org)
• one of the first professional societies to develop sponsored membership, to facilitate developing-nation authors to publish work and to celebrate congresses in developing world

Groundwater Advocacy in Global Dialogue

• canvassed for an ‘international reference centre for groundwater resources’ (IGRAC www.un-igrac.org) at the WMO/UNESCO Joint Inter-Governmental Council Meeting 1999, and subsequently advised Dutch government on its formation
• proposed to GEF during 2006-08 the promotion of an ‘international agency initiative’ to formulate an action framework and investment priorities for strengthening groundwater governance
• proposed and implemented during 2015-22 the IAH Website-Strategic Overview Series revealing the inter-dependency of numerousother sectors and activities on groundwater

Work on Applied Groundwater Science

• including amongst the first publications on pollutant transport in dual-porosity aquifers, diffuse groundwater pollution by agricultural land-use, aquifer pollution vulnerability mapping and groundwater governance – together with an extensive output on groundwater interactions with urbanisation processes and agricultural practices
• spokesman at numerous global and European water fora on the importance of the resource and its intimate linkages with land-use practices