Matthijs Bonte - consulting, research and project management

Independent consulting on water, climate and the environment.

MB-Water is an independent consulting company that supports organisations in the fields of water, climate and the environment.

Services

Consulting

MB-Water provides consulting services in the fields of water resources management and contaminated land management. MB-Water brings strong expertise in groundwater, both for technical assessments and policy development.

Research

MB-Water conducts research related to water, climate and environmental topics for a wide variety of sectors. Whenever possible, results are published and made publicly available.

Project management

MB-Water supports organisations with scoping and management of water and environmental projects. This starts by developing the right project goals and strategy and ends with implementing project outcomes that have impact.

Project examples

Effects of thermal energy harvesting from drinking water

Research into the effects of thermal energy harvesting from transport pipelines on ecology and drinking water production.

PERIOD
2024 and ongoing
CLIENT
Waternet
ROLE
Project lead
LOCATION
Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes
  • aquathermy
  • ecology
  • drinking water

Groundwater management Pakistan

Development of groundwater models to support groundwater policy in Punjab and Sindh.

PERIOD
2022 and ongoing
CLIENT
UN-FAO
ROLE
Advice and model development
LOCATION
Punjab and Sindh, Pakistan
  • groundwater
  • policy
  • international

Impact and costs of freshwater shortages

Method and dashboard development to quantify the effects of freshwater shortages.

PERIOD
2025 and ongoing
CLIENT
Rijkswaterstaat, with Berenschot
ROLE
Development and analysis
LOCATION
Netherlands
  • freshwater shortage
  • drought
  • societal costs

Dealing with salinity

Guidance and analysis for managing salinity in freshwater systems.

PERIOD
2025 and ongoing
CLIENT
STOWA
ROLE
Program coordination
LOCATION
Netherlands
  • salinity
  • freshwater
  • water management

Knowledge Programme Sea Level Rise

Technical management within the freshwater availability theme of the national knowledge programme.

PERIOD
2022-2025
CLIENT
Rijkswaterstaat
ROLE
Interim technical manager
LOCATION
Netherlands
  • freshwater
  • policy
  • climate

Chloride forecasting tool Andijk

Development of a forecasting tool for chloride at the Andijk raw water intake.

PERIOD
2023
CLIENT
PWN
ROLE
Development and analysis
LOCATION
Andijk
  • salinisation
  • raw water
  • modelling

Delta Programme Freshwater

Synthesis document for the Dutch Delta Programme Freshwater 2021-2026.

PERIOD
2025-2026
CLIENT
Delta Programme Freshwater
ROLE
Author
LOCATION
Netherlands
  • freshwater
  • knowledge agenda
  • policy
About MB-Water
Matthijs Bonte, founder of MB-Water
MATTHIJS BONTE

MB-Water is the independent consulting company of Matthijs Bonte, PhD. Matthijs is a hydrologist with a broad range of experience including the Dutch national government (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management), the energy sector (Shell Global Solutions), scientific research (KWR-Water, VU University Amsterdam) and consulting (Witteveen+Bos).

The experience includes groundwater management, water resources and drought resilience, contaminated land management and environmental and climate related issues.

Matthijs obtained MSc and PhD degrees from the VU University Amsterdam in hydrogeology and hydrochemistry. More information on background and experience is available on LinkedIn.

Publications

Written over 50 papers in both peer reviewed journals and professional journals. A complete overview is available on Google Scholar. Most of these are available through ResearchGate.

Contact

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