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Value Case Development: a process methodology for sustainable decision-making

Drinking water utilities will have to make major investments in the coming decades in areas such as asset infrastructure in order to maintain their capacity to continue supplying…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Effectiveness of nitrogen-mitigation measures in dry habitats

In the Netherlands low-productive habitat types have for decades been affected by high nitrogen deposition. Nitrogen-mitigation measures have been taken to maintain and restore these low-productive habitat types.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
DNA Diatom Biosensor

In order to attain and maintain the desired level of ecological quality in European waters, water management authorities need to implement comprehensive monitoring and measurement packages that enable them to comply with the European requirements set by…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Smartroof 2.0

Heat stress is a growing problem in the urban environment. In this TKI project, industry, real-estate managers, and government and research entities joined forces to optimise the cooling function of evaporation from blue-green roofs. The project produced…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Monitoring fish migration through eDNA

To bring the ecological quality of European waters up to standard, water management entities have to implement extensive sets of measures. In this way they can satisfy the requirements laid out in…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Incorporation of soil nutrients and acidity into PROBE

The vegetation composition in freshwater natural ecosystems can be explained on the basis of the soil moisture, nutrient fertility and acidity. A reliable assessment of how the vegetation…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
DNA Water system Scan & Reference Tool

The identification of aquatic organisms through DNA barcode information has accelerated greatly over the past few years. Worldwide, DNA barcodes of a multiplicity of species have been collected and made available via…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Identifying eDNA to understand aquatic biodiversity

Preserving biodiversity is high on the (political) agenda worldwide. The theme has been given quite high priority at both the European level (EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020) and…

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Jelmer Nijp PhD
Scientific researcher
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Jelmer Nijp PhD

Scientific researcher

Jelmer Nijp has been working as a researcher in the Ecohydrology team since 2018. Jelmer's field is at the interface of Hydrology and Ecology, combining mathematical models, field measurements, experiments…

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Edu Dorland PhD
Manager Project manager
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Edu Dorland PhD

Manager Project manager

Edu Dorland has since 2016 been leader of the Ecohydrology team, heading a diverse group of ecologists and hydrologists. As a project manager since 2012, Edu has also worked on…

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edu.dorland@kwrwater.nl

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Presenting blue-green roofs in Bolzano

08 August 2022 — My first in-person conference in two years was the Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Conference…

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Biodiversity and water inextricably linked

08 May 2019 — Of the estimated eight million species on Earth, fully one million are threatened with extinction in the decades…

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Cool heads and dry feet thanks to blue-green roof

01 November 2018 — At the annual National Delta Congress, outgoing Delta Programme Commissioner, Wim Kuijken, shined the spotlight on Smartroof 2.0.…

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NL-Fish Population Scan determines species composition of fish populations

14 June 2018 — The presence or absence of fish species provides information about the quality of the water. Within the ‘Monitoring…

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Water Sector

Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

08 September 2017 — On Friday, 8 September, the innovative, blue-green SmartRoof 2.0 was opened at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. The hot,…

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Doctoral research into salt exposure and its impact on plants in low-lying polders

15 June 2017 — On 7 June, Sija Stofberg obtained her doctorate at Wageningen University & Research for her research into the…

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Water Sector

Nature4Life: National knowledge agenda for research into biodiversity, ecology and evolution

06 February 2017 — On 1 February, State Secretary Sander Dekker was handed the first copy of the national ‘Nature4Life Biodiversity Knowledge…

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Water Sector

Collaboration in knowledge and research programme Lumbricus formalised

15 December 2016 — The collaboration between the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and a consortium of water boards, knowledge institutions…

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Water Sector

Pim de Voogt named member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks

02 May 2016 — Pim de Voogt was late last week in Luxemburg appointed member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental…

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Cooperating knowledge institutes: ‘Biomonitoring could be faster, more reliable and cheaper’

12 January 2016 — In March 2015, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and KWR Watercycle Research Institute sealed their agreement to become preferred partners…

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KWR and Naturalis sign cooperation agreement in Biodiversity & Water

16 April 2015 — In early 2015, KWR Water Research Institute and Naturalis Biodiversity Center joined forces as each other’s preferred partners…

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Climate change and resilience

The water sector needs practice-oriented research to help it confront the wide-ranging consequences of climate…

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Biodiversity

Value Case Development: a process methodology for sustainable decision-making

Effectiveness of nitrogen-mitigation measures in dry habitats

DNA Diatom Biosensor

Smartroof 2.0

Monitoring fish migration through eDNA

Incorporation of soil nutrients and acidity into PROBE

DNA Water system Scan & Reference Tool

Identifying eDNA to understand aquatic biodiversity

Presenting blue-green roofs in Bolzano

Biodiversity and water inextricably linked

Cool heads and dry feet thanks to blue-green roof

NL-Fish Population Scan determines species composition of fish populations

Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

Doctoral research into salt exposure and its impact on plants in low-lying polders

Nature4Life: National knowledge agenda for research into biodiversity, ecology and evolution

Collaboration in knowledge and research programme Lumbricus formalised

Pim de Voogt named member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks

Cooperating knowledge institutes: ‘Biomonitoring could be faster, more reliable and cheaper’

KWR and Naturalis sign cooperation agreement in Biodiversity & Water

Climate change and resilience