Multi-purpose dams 
Construction and rehabilitation of dams is on the agenda again! Many lessons have been learned. Increased knowledge, new approaches and techniques, involved stakeholders and changes in priorities in recent times have shown that dams provide new opportunities.
The most obvious benefits of a dam are its ability to:
  • retain water to prevent flooding downstream
  • store water for irrigation in the dry season
  • build up water and extract its energy
  • stock up water and distribute it throughout the year to citizens and industries
     
Less obvious but strong potentials lie in:
  • enhancing groundwater recharge
  • sustaining downstream environmental flow
  • making a river navigable, enabling recreation
  • creating wetlands
  • reducing the need for carbon dioxide-emitting fuels through hydropower
What services do we provide?

Royal Haskoning provides services that cover the whole project life cycle, from concept development, to feasibility, impact assessments, design, tender process, site supervision and operation & maintenance. Specific products and/or services are:
  • Environmental & Social Impact Assessments
  • Economic & Institutional Analysis
  • Dam Safety Assessments
  • Water Management Plans
  • Flood Risk Assessment
  • Hydraulic & Hydrological Modelling
  • Design Structural Measures
  • Monitoring and Early Warning Measures
Barekese Dam

Tradition

Starting in the 1880’s, Royal Haskoning was the first consultant in the Netherlands to be involved in the design of dams and dykes. Throughout the 20th century and onwards we have moved further afield, providing advice to the public as well as private sectors on numerous dams, barrages, barriers and weirs. Based on numerous projects in deltaic areas, Royal Haskoning have in particular built up unique expertise and a strong track record on dams built on soft soils as well as on dams built in complex institutional and social settings.

Mapping your institutional landscape

In the last decennia developing countries have gradually shifted from fragmented water resources management towards Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). To aid this process, a matrix-based tool and database with interfaces was developed by Royal Haskoning, allowing a dissection and a first step analysis of the institutional landscape of water, land and environment management. Royal Haskoning has called this MIMAT, a Matrix-based Institutional Mapping and Assessment Tool.
MIMAT highlights the (potential) problem areas and bottlenecks for a coordinated cross-sectoral water, land and environment management. The tool visualises the relation between the functions in water, land and environment managment and the actors in the sectors. This renders a structured pattern of the institutional landscape, establishing the links between the different actors and answering the question: “who is doing what?” in the sectors.

MIMAT