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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
Biomonitoring of atmospheric nitrogen deposition with mosses

It was expected that the emission of nitrogen during the COVID-19 crisis and the lockdowns would diminish because of the sharp reduction in human activities. This would apply…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Solar panels on water reservoirs

Drinking water reservoirs have a large water surface. The installation of floating solar panels on reservoirs can be an effective strategy to generate energy. However, the question is, if and what impacts do solar panels have on…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Water Quality Knowledge Impulse

Over the past four years, work in the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse has focused on learning more about the quality of groundwater and surface water, and the factors that affect that quality. The aim of the Water…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Urban Photosynthesis; three functions on a single roof

Urban Photosynthesis involves research in the urban environment on an integrated solution, which closes as many water loops as possible at the building level, combined with the generation…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Restoration of dry dune grasslands after high nitrogen deposition

The dune water utilities face big challenges in the management and restoration of dry dune grasslands. As a result of a high atmospheric nitrogen deposition, and the associated…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Nutrients: which agricultural measures make sense?

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. Agriculture plays a major part in the nutrient loading in our waters. In this project we are studying the effects of measures…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Toxicity: effect-directed water-quality measurement

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. More than 140,000 chemical compounds are produced, used and traded in Europe. And a portion of them end…

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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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Experts

Camiel Aggenbach MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Camiel Aggenbach MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Camiel Aggenbach is an ecologist with 30 years of experience in restoring and managing ecosystems and their biodiversity. His expertise is in the rewetting of peatlands and the restoration of…

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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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News

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Insights on sustainable water management

20 November 2024 — The Netherlands and Tokyo face similar challenges in water management, such as ensuring water quality and integrating green…

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Blog

Exposome: showing how climate change impacts global health

10 August 2022 — A hackathon is a great way to challenge yourself, explore new research avenues and meet fellow researchers.

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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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A strategy for exposure science

18 July 2019 — On the fourth and fifth of July 2019, I joined the de ISES Europe Exposure science strategy workshop.…

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News

Willem Koerselman Award for Ruud Bartholomeus

02 April 2019 — Ruud Bartholomeus has won the 2018 Willem Koerselman Award for the article “A plant’s perspective of extremes: terrestrial…

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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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Focus on tools for ecological diagnosis and impact prediction

28 February 2018 — The identification of aquatic organisms using DNA barcode information has accelerated rapidly in recent years. All over the…

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Pharmaceuticals in wastewater conference

23 January 2018 — In the Meander Medical Center Amersfoort STOWA organized a conference about the presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. The…

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News

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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Ruud, Martin and Jan Jaap @ European Geoscience Union

01 May 2017 — KWR gave one oral presentation, presented several posters and organized a session at the European Geosciences Union in…

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Water Sector

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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