“The story behind The Weather Makers and the whole intention is that five years by accident, I was working in a dredging company and one of the commercial people from Egypt approached me on a question about a lagoon where the fish were disappearing. So we started with this very small thing and set up a whole flow modelling approach, so really from the hydraulics, we could determine what would happen with the fish. And that really was the regretting the Sinai could have a very big impact on the world.” Ties van der Hoeven is Creative Director and Co-founder of The Weather Makers, a company which uses holistic engineering to create Watershed Wide Ecosystem Regeneration at the broken continental divide regions to restore hydrological cycles. They influence the vegetation to increase fresh water availability through land-atmospheric processes.As a hydraulic engineer and entrepreneur, Ties has worked on international projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. His main focus is innovation, sustainability, visualization, virtual reality and 3D gaming After working on several big construction projects, his interest shifted to working with nature and implementing a pro-active adaptive engineering approach.
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