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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
RECREATE

Eleven European partners will be working together on using alternative sources and additional buffers to strengthen the resilience of water supplies to water scarcity. KWR is leading a work package with four varied regional case studies: in…

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Health
Biological activity
The effects on biological stability and later growth of mixing treated water from alternative sources and conventionally produced drinking water

This project will determine the effect of mixing drinking water extracted from new sources (groundwater and surface water) with drinking water from conventional treatment on the biological stability…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The Ultimate Water Plant

The Ultimate Water Plant is a collaborative project involving parties in the water sector who want to demonstrate how, and subject to which conditions, treated sewage can be made available as a supplementary source of drinking water.…

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Health
Microbial safety
Rainwater as a source of drinking water: production costs and environmental aspects

Many people think it would be sustainable to make drinking water from collected rainwater. However, there is not enough rainwater in the Netherlands to meet demand. The costs…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Cocktail of Substances (RIWA-Meuse)

RIWA Maas collects large amounts of water quality data at a number of locations, both in the Netherlands and upstream, which is summarized in annual reports. These reports show that substances exceed…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Implications of the Environment and Planning Act

The implementation of the Environment and Planning Act will create new opportunities to protect drinking water sources in regional area management. By means of interviews with local and regional authorities, the research…

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Society
Stakeholder involvement and governance
4D Source protection in a changing world

This project involves studying the application of a 4D approach to source protection. The approach is based on knowledge about subsurface (3D) and future (4D) developments, and also takes into account the…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Ground passage in the adaptation of surface-water water companies due to population aging and climate change

According to predictions based on anticipated population aging and climate change, the concentrations of pharmaceuticals in surface water will significantly increase in the years ahead. Because of protracted…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Occurrence and removal of nanoparticles in drinking water treatment

Because of the global increase in the use of nanoparticles, in consumer and pharmaceutical products for example, it is expected that they will increasingly become a source of…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
HDDW Rodenhuis

The research, conducted in partnership with Oasen and Visser & Smit Hanab, aims to establish whether water can be abstracted more efficiently using HDDWs at the Rodenhuis wellfield in the Province of South Holland. Because the area…

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Arnaut van Loon PhD MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager
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Arnaut van Loon PhD MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager

Arnaut van Loon is a wide-ranging hydrogeologist, who is active as a researcher and project manager in the field of rewetting, freshwater management and groundwater protection. As an applied researcher,…

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Eight key actions in EU Soil Monitoring Act require inclusion of groundwater protection

02 August 2023 — KWR identified eight key actions in the European Soil Strategy that urge the inclusion of groundwater protection. This…

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News

FRESHMAN researches use of brackish groundwater as new drinking water source

01 February 2022 — After two years of preparatory and construction work, on 31 January 2022 the pumps at the Dunea pilot…

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Blog

Pharmaceuticals in the water cycle

27 October 2021 — Pharmaceuticals can more and more be found in the water cycle. They may affect the aquatic environment and…

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News

RO with minimal pre-treatment offers financial scope for optimisation

17 June 2021 — Using reverse osmosis (RO) on (drinking) water sources can produce high quality water directly. In practice, however, RO…

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Dunea working on future-resilient freshwater supplies – FRESHMAN

14 July 2020 — Drinking water company and nature management authority Dunea has signed a subsidy contract with the European Union on…

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News

Multiple sources of Genesee County Legionella Outbreak in 2014-2015

04 December 2019 — In 2017 the State of Michigan asked KWR to investigate the epidemic of Legionnaires’ Disease in Genesee County,…

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Blog

International Groundwater Quality Conference (GQ19)

24 September 2019 — Last week, the news was all about the deterioration of Dutch groundwater quality and the resulting stress on…

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News

Quality of drinking water sources under growing pressure

12 September 2019 — A survey study by KWR on the quality of drinking water sources in the Netherlands shows that these…

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News

Is it good to further purify your drinking water at home?

18 July 2019 — Reports appear fairly regularly in the media suggesting that drinking water is not clean and that it’s better…

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News

Dutch drinking water sources vulnerable to plant protection products

01 April 2019 — Ground- and surface-water sources in the Netherlands are vulnerable to contamination by old and new plant protection products…

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News

Study of the effect of underground heat sources on drinking water temperature

30 April 2018 — Research institutes KWR and Deltares are to investigate the effect of underground heat sources on the temperature of…

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Blog

Visit to Norvatten, Stockholm

23 April 2018 — Drinking water utility Norvatten wants to modernize its treatment process for the increasing population of Stockholm, and to…

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News

Which drinking water is the safest?

30 January 2018 — In recent times the safety of drinking water has regularly been in the news. Some believe that tap…

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Column

Substances policy: persistency and mobility are important for water quality

13 December 2017 — European legislation on chemical substances (REACH) primarily focuses on substances that do not easily break down and are…

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News

Drinking water sector investigating potential risks of antimicrobial resistance

04 December 2017 — Antimicrobial resistance forms a risk for public health. Resistant bacteria and the genes for antimicrobial resistance are also found in…

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Groundwater Abstraction Database launched on NHI day

30 November 2017 — KWR and Deltares last week, during the annual meeting of the Netherlands Hydrological Instrument (NHI), launched the Groundwater…

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Article

Safe drinking water toolbox developed

27 July 2015 — With the introduction of the new WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality and the Water Safety Plans, a need…

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Article

KWR and water companies in the grip of pyrazole discharges for long spell

09 July 2015 — In the summer of 2015, Limburg Water Distribution Company (WML) detected a pollutant in the river Meuse, which…

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