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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The Urban Waterbuffer

Urban areas are increasingly faced with temporary flooding caused by heavy rainfall, or water shortages due to longer drought periods. The conventional solutions aim in particular at rapidly discharging the water and at supplying water from external…

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Sustainable resources
Removing H2S from biogas using granular iron(hydr)oxide

Aquafer is a sludge consisting of ferric oxide/ferric hydroxide, which is a residual of drinking water treatment processes. Reststoffenunie (now AquaMinerals) looks after the disposals of the aquafer…

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Sustainable resources
Production and application of granular aquafer

Every year in the Netherlands about 95,000 tons of aquafer is generated (62,000 tons of liquid aquafer and 33,000 tons of dewatered aquafer). Reststoffenunie (now AquaMinerals) disposes of this water company residual…

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Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

The successful realisation of the greenhouse horticulture area of Nieuw Prinsenland (Dinteloord) requires that the supply of irrigation water be made sustainable. There is insufficient rainwater to meet the needs of the greenhouse horticulturalists, and there are…

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Experts

Lennart Brokx MSc
Scientific researcher
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Lennart Brokx MSc

Scientific researcher

Lennart Brokx is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. In 2020 he graduated as a hydrologist/geohydrologist from Utrecht University. In the last phase of his MSc, he wrote his thesis…

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lennart.brokx@kwrwater.nl

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Luuk de Waal MSc
Scientific researcher Portfolio manager
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Luuk de Waal MSc

Scientific researcher Portfolio manager

Luuk de Waal is a researcher in the Water Treatment & Resource Recovery team and manages the organization-wide project-portfolio Water cycle. His research focusses on innovative water treatment technologies and…

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luuk.de.waal@kwrwater.nl

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Sija Stofberg PhD
Scientific researcher
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Sija Stofberg PhD

Scientific researcher

Sija Stofberg is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. She works on projects in the field of groundwater, ecohydrology and water system analysis. Examples include research on sustainable freshwater supply…

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sija.stofberg@kwrwater.nl

06-52826056

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Niels Hartog PhD
Principal scientist
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Niels Hartog PhD

Principal scientist

Dr. Niels Hartog's research focuses on the sustainable use and improvement of the quality of groundwater and the use of the subsurface as a sustainable source and storage of water…

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niels.hartog@kwrwater.nl

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News

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RECREATE: a system-wide look at the water system

02 July 2024 — PWN and KWR are working together in the European RECREATE project about alternative water sources.

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W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

17 July 2020 — Last Tuesday, 14 July, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, paid a working visit to…

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New thesis prize named after leading hydrogeology expert Stuyfzand

17 December 2019 — Over the course of forty years, hydrogeologist Pieter Stuyfzand has worked at Kiwa/KWR, Delft University of Technology and…

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SALutions and COASTAR presented at International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge

22 May 2019 — During the triennial International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR) held in Madrid, KWR and Arcadis presented results…

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KWR associated with four Water Innovation Prize nominations

10 October 2018 — At the Innovation Expo 2018 in Rotterdam, the Association of Regional Water Authorities and the Water Bank (NWB)…

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Large-scale freshwater provision in low-lying areas of the Netherlands through smart use of the subsurface

22 May 2018 — Water authorities, drinking water companies, knowledge institutes, consultant Arcadis, the Province of South Holland and the greenhouse horticultural…

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COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

13 July 2017 — In the COASTAR (COastal Aquifer STorage and Recovery) project that recently got underway, KWR, together with Deltares and…

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Water reuse and subsurface storage: a logical combination

13 June 2017 — In Dinteloord (North Brabant) the Tuinbouwontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Horticultural Development Company) (TOM) has realised a high-quality, sustainable freshwater provision system…

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Urban Waterbuffer now also in practice

19 May 2017 — How can we retain rainwater in the subsurface of urban areas longer and more effectively? And can we…

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Urban Waterbuffer gives value to excess rainwater

22 December 2016 — Urban areas increasingly face flooding due to intense rainfall, as well as water shortages due to long droughts.…

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SubSol: underway one successful year

15 September 2016 — On 12-13 September the partners of the Horizon 2020 SubSol project gathered in Berlin. The project’s objective is…

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Koen Zuurbier obtains doctorate with dissertation on Aquifer Storage & Recovery

09 May 2016 — On 10 May 2016 Koen Zuurbier was awarded his doctorate by TU Delft for his research into the temporary subsurface storage…

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