Solving water and environmental problems often requires integration of various aspects, such as conjunctive use of ground water and surface water, water quantity and quality, irrigation water demand, water use conflicts, environmental and socio-economic aspects, and integration of the natural systems into human (political and institutional) systems.

The particular advantage to customers of DHI's services is the combination of cutting-edge expertise coupled with state-of the-art decision support tools to assist in the policy analysis and strategic planning of water and environmental resources, ranging from detailed issue-specific water and environmental assessments, over river basin or coastal zone management issues, to broad-scale national policy and planning.

DHI has achieved a leading position within the field of integrated management of land and water resources - we have contributed to defining IWRM approaches and pioneered their application through support to national planning processes. DHI hosts a number of international knowledge centres - run in cooperation with Global Water Partnership, UNEP and WHO - dedicated to working towards integrated management of water, environmental and coastal resources.

DHI has a long tradition for and commitment to close co-operation with customers on technology transfer and capacity building - in the form of formal courses as well as on-the-job coaching. We have developed a suite of regularly scheduled vocational training courses to cover most aspects of water and environmental management. If need be, we tailor-make courses to focus on exactly the issues that participants want to address.