Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Dutch: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat
	; Building of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Department overview
Formed	14 October 2010; 14 years ago
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Rijnstraat 8, The Hague, Netherlands
Annual budget	€15,7 billion (2018)
Minister responsible	Barry Madlener, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management;
Deputy Minister responsible	Chris Jansen, State Secretary for Public Transport and the Environment;
Department executive	Jan Hendrik Dronkers, Secretary-General;
Website	Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Dutch: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat; I&W) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for transport, aviation, public works, land management and water resource management. The Ministry was created in 2010 as the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment following the merger of the Ministry of Transport and Water Management and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment. In 2017, the Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the responsibilities for environmental policy and climate change policy were transferred to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management (Dutch: Minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) is the head of the Ministry and a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. The current Minister is Barry Madlener, serving since July 2024.

Organisation

The Ministry has currently two Government Agencies and three Directorates:

Government Agencies				Responsibilities
		Rijkswaterstaat	RWS	Public infrastructure • Water Management
		Meteorological Institute (Dutch: Meteorologisch Instituut)	KNMI	Weather forecasting