Dhaka, July 25 -- It is with a heavy heart that I will be saying goodbye to Andre Carstens, Ambassador of The Netherlands to Bangladesh. He is an avid cyclist who cycled 160 km from Barishal to the Sunderban. There, he visited the WIldTeam Conservation Center. He is a friend of the Royal Bengal Tiger.

The Netherlands and Bangladesh are both deltaic regions. As such, Dutch-Bangla friendship and cooperation stretch over decades, and would seem to be locked in through the framework of the Bangladesh Delta Plan. The Netherlands is partnering Bangladesh in arguably its most important, most long-term, and potentially most transformative project: the Delta Plan 2100.

Water management is a major challenge in Bangladesh, where spatial and season...