Horst Complex

dr.ir. H.J. Hogeboom (Rick)

Associate Professor
ET-CEM-MWM
Horst Complex W204
h.j.hogeboom@utwente.nl
+31534893911
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Rick studies water consumption in relation to social, economic, and environmental impacts of water use, from global to local scales. Methods of choice are water footprint assessment and valuing water.

Rick is also Executive Director at the Water Footprint Network (WFN), an international non-profit partner and donor organization that works with businesses, NGOs, governments, and investors to promote the transition toward sustainable, fair and efficient use of the world’s fresh water.

Rick is also visiting researcher at King's College London's School for Government.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Water Footprint
    • Water
    • Water Use
    • Investigation
    • Groundwater
    • Assessment
    • Water Consumption
    • Model

Organisations

Publications

2025

Food security beyond borders: How crop imports affect drought risk of conflict-affected countries (2025)Environmental research letters, 20(12). Article 124007. M D Goulart, H., Hamed, R., Hogeboom, R. J., Meijer, K. & Dahm, R.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae1bbfPrioritizing water values for decision-making in transboundary river allocation: A case study of the syr darya river basin (2025)Journal of environmental management, 393. Article 126944. Poplawsky, M., den Haan, R.-J., Hogeboom, R., Wöhler, L. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126944Nutrient production, water consumption, and stresses of large-scale versus small-scale agriculture: A global comparative analysis based on a gridded crop model (2025)Global Food Security, 45, 100844. Article 100844. Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R. J., Luna-Gonzalez, D. V., Mialyk, O., Willaarts, B., Wang, Y. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100844Data and all materials for the serious game: Together We Flow: Shared Values in Transboundary River Basin Allocation (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Poplawsky, M., den Haan, R.-J., Hogeboom, R. J., Wöhler, L. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.4121/dc66c42b-c8b1-4b3f-88c0-470e46d35a72Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary discussion series (2025)Ecological indicators, 174. Article 113458. Berger, M., Gerbens-Leenes, W., Karandish, F., Aldaya, M. M., Boulay, A. M., Hogeboom, R. J., Link, A., Manzardo, A., Mialyk, O., Motoshita, M., Nuñez, M., Pfister, S., Rosenbaum, R. K., Scherer, L., Su, H. & Wöhler, L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113458Data underlying the publication: Estimating the contribution of small-scale agriculture to the crop production involved in international trade and virtual water flows (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Su, H., Bruckner , M., Taherzadeh, O., Sun, Z., Hogeboom, R. J. & Krol, M. S.https://doi.org/10.4121/4d32300f-28cf-45f8-8e9d-77759bf6e9ce

2024

Understanding groundwater droughts using detrended historical meteorological data and long-term groundwater modelling (2024)Netherlands journal of geosciences, 103. Article e25. Schutten, W. A., Pezij, M., Hogeboom, R. J., Jungermann, U. N. & Augustijn, D. C. M.https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2024.22The role of small-scale agriculture in water consumption, water scarcity, and virtual water flows (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Su, H.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560559Water footprints and crop water use of 175 individual crops for 1990–2019 simulated with a global crop model (2024)Scientific Data, 11. Article 206. Mialyk, O., Schyns, J. F., Booij, M. J., Su, H., Hogeboom, R. J. & Berger, M.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03051-3Dataset of Science Based Target Network's Freshwater Quantity Target (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Hogeboom, R. J., Su, H., Prunes, E., Dilks, D. & Townsend, A.https://doi.org/10.4121/089afa18-bbd5-493e-8a6c-39e1ca7b2a59

Research profiles

Teaching

Water Footprint Assessment, CEM Master course

Futures: Complex Problem Solving, Bachelor Honours course

Coordinator Shaping the Future track, Bachelor Honours programme

M.Sc. thesis supervision

2025 Jasper Haak "Evaluating the role of Dutch Water boards in promoting efficient freshwater use: legal authority and policies" 

2023 Wout Schutten "Historical meteorological time series in transfer function-noise modelling: how extreme are current groundwater levels?" 

2023 Stefan van Leijsen "The effect of climate change on groundwater level variation in De Wieden, The Netherlands" 

2022 Jorine Oosting "Optimizing the conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater resources for drinking water production under uncertain climatic conditions" 

2022 Johannes Attema "Ethical water allocations based on water footprint caps: a case study for the Yellow River Basin" 

2021 Foekje van Schoot "Estimating current and possible future irrigation water requirements : an approach for the Rhine basin during the growing season in periods of drought" 

2021, Bart Treurniet "Quantifying the share of non-sustainable groundwater in the blue water footprint of global crop production" 

2020, Dyan Voetdijk "Blue water footprint caps for the Orange River basin" 

2018 Ruben Herrebrugh “The blue and grey water footprint of industry and domestic water supply : The blue and grey water footprint of all industrial sectors and domestic water supply for each country annually in the period 1960-2015” 

2018 Davey de Bruin “Developing water caps for the world’s river basins”

2017 Kees van Ginkel “Urban water security dashboard: characterizing and ranking cities”

2017 Ilja Kamphuis “Water sustainability of Dutch investors”2016, Luuk Knook “The water footprint related to reservoir operation on a global scale”

2016 Jessica de Koning “Defining and distinguishing water footprint benchmarks in crop production”

2015 Vok Keijsper “Freshwater sustainability criteria in ecolabels: the creation of a freshwater sustainability ecolabel and analysis of the ecolabels in the Netherlands” 


B.Sc. thesis supervision

2024 Fenna van der Werff "Climate adaptation of inland water bodies"

2023 Lieke Nannes "Extreme weather events in polders"

2022 Robin Ross "Equitable water allocation in river basins"

2021 Tjerk-Jan van Leerdam "Drought measures in the Utrechtse Heuvelrug"

2020 Ype Willemsen "Managed Aquifer Recharge to mitigate water scarcity"

2017 Dyan Voetdijk “Rioolmodelleringsstudie Lokeren”

2016 Kai Hermann “Groundwater model of Dhaka”

2015 Sam de Roover “Modelling the Jakarta groundwater system: A Sensitivity Analysis”

2015 Max Veerkamp “Modellering rioolstelsel zuiveringsgebied Rillaar”

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2025/2026

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2024/2025

2025-Present EU JRC - Water footprint of food systems

2024-Present IG - Valuing water for drought resilience in Eastern Netherlands

2023-Present HEU WE-ACT - Climate-smart water allocation in Central Asia

2022-Present NWO Veni - A water footprint ethic

2022-Present World Bank - Global water monitoring report

For a concise and inspiring message on my broader line of research, watch my TED-talk.

In the press

  • 2018, Sep 24 - Interview in KJZZ radioshow "Intel promises to restore 100 percent of its global water use - what does it mean?", listen to the show here.
  • 2018, Sep 8 - Article in Environmental Finance "Water sustainability is investor 'blind spot', study suggests", find it here.
  • 2018, Sep 7 - Interview PensioenPro "Grootste pensioenfondsen lopen achter met esg-beleid over watergebruik", find it here.
  • 2018, Sep 4 - Interview H20 "Nederlandse investeerders hebben weinig oog voor waterduurzaamheid", find it here.
  • 2018, Aug 26 - Editorial in Water & Sanitation Campaign magazine MediaPlanet "Investors today can avert water crises of tomorrow", find it here.
  • 2018, May 2 - TED-talk at TEDxTwenteU "Your Water Footprint Revealed", watch the talk here.
  • 2018, Mar 3 - Article in Science Trends "Thirsty Reservoirs - The Water Footprint of Hydroelectric Dam Construction", find it here.
  • 2018, Feb 5 - Interview in radioshow the Scholar’s Circle “Water rights, scarcity and water use in perspective”, listen to the show here.
  • 2017, Oct 25 - Interview in World Finance “The threat of water scarcity looms large”, find it here.
  • 2017, Sep 12 - Interview in Pulse Microsoft Cloud “Zonder de Microsoft Cloud was ons onderzoek niet gelukt”, find it here.

News on utwente.nl

  • 2018, Sep 12 - Interview UToday "Reep chocolade: 17.000 liter water", find it here.
  • 2018, Sep 3 - Press release UTwente.nl "Weinig aandacht voor waterduurzaamheid Nederlandse investeerders", find it here. Overgenomen door DuurzaamBeleggen.nl, find it here. In English, find it here.
  • 2018, Aug 28 - Article in UToday "Als het aan mij ligt gaan we door met InspireU", find it here.
  • 2018, Jul 1 - Interview in Promovabel UT Magazine "Promotieonderzoek naar relatie waterschaarste en consumptie", find it here.
  • 2018, May 1 - Interview in UToday "TEDxTwenteU: Your Water Footprint Revealed", find it here.

Address

University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W204
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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<p>Program Manager @ Wetskills Foundation</p>
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