Holland to offer expertise in water management

  • 12/12/2005

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

There is substantial room for growth in India-Netherlands economic relations, said Ms Karien van Gennip, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade, in an interview given to Indian journalists at Amsterdam recently. Ms Gennip will be visiting New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai in the first week of September and will be leading a large delegation of Dutch businessmen. She said apart from her own general interest in learning about Indian expertise in technology, there already were a number of areas in which Dutch companies excelled such as water management. Ms Gennip said as the Netherlands was two to three metres under sea level, the Dutch had "developed a policy on living with water instead of fighting it, which had been very successful in the past decades."