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Evaporation

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
VIPNL: Wetland crops on water-rich peat

This project is investigating how wetland agriculture on water-rich peat can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land subsidence, and deliver improvements in water quality and biodiversity. The focus is on…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Peak Matching offers view of nitrogen deposition and evaporation

Information about nitrogen and evaporation is essential for the sustainable management of groundwater resources and nature in the dunes. In this research project, a method is being tested…

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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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Water and Fire

The risk of the spread of wildfires is closely related to the water management. The flammability of the vegetation in particular is partly a function of the availability of water. The drier the soil, the drier the…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
BINGO

To anticipate the impact of climate change appropriately, the water sector needs better, downscaled climate predictions. Only with regional-level information can the sector develop risk management strategies. Objectives BINGO’s objective is to reduce the uncertainty of climate…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Material properties required for shallowly buried pipes

Brabant Water has developed the concept the Tertiaire Net van de Toekomst (TNT) (Tertiary Network of the Future). According to this vision, the tertiary network will be installed…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
PROBE 3: an innovative model for vegetation development, groundwater recharge and nitrate leaching in a changing climate

Climate change can be expected to have big consequences for groundwater-independent vegetations, precisely because they rely entirely on the atmosphere for their water. Over the past few years,…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Future temperature in the distribution network under the impact of urbanisation and climate change

Water temperature at the pumping station has limited impact on the temperature at the tap, but groundwater temperature does have a strong impact. If ground temperatures increase because…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
A cost-effective system for measuring evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration is nearly always the main source of moisture loss in water balance studies. Most of the precipitation in an area is actually evaporated by crops, trees, natural…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of EFC for the treatment of regenerant from ion exchange – as applied in DOC removal/decolouration and softening (especially drinking water and water-related industrial applications) – through…

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Prof. Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc
Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist
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Prof. Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc

Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist

Ruud Bartholomeus works as Chief Science Officer of KWR and Principal Scientist of the Ecohydrology team on a robust freshwater supply in rural areas, and is special professor 'plant water…

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News

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Test ponds in KWR garden come to life

06 September 2023 — The plants in the test ponds (“mesocosms”) in the KWR garden flourished in the first year. This gives…

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News

SmartRoof 2.0 installed at Polypipe Terrain, Aylesford, UK

25 January 2019 — Following the successful launch of the first SmartRoof project in Amsterdam (www.projectsmartroof.nl) in 2017, we transformed a second…

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News

Bernard Voortman earns doctorate on invisible water loss

21 September 2018 — Former KWR researcher Bernard Voortman has earned his doctorate from VU University Amsterdam for his thesis on ‘Evaporation…

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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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Water Sector

An integrated analysis of the water cycle in the context of climate change

06 March 2017 — Researchers from across Europe met at the Veluwe research site in the Netherlands on 1-2 February to evaluate…

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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

KWR places ‘water in the circular city’ centre-stage at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands

31 March 2016 — The circular city was the theme this year of KWR’s stand at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands. The…

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News

New apparatus measures invisible water loss

16 September 2015 — We can see rain and snow, but that’s not the case for the biggest cause of water loss…

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Article

Kick-off of European BINGO project

09 July 2015 — In Lisbon, on 9 and 10 July 2015, the kick-off took place of the BINGO project: Bringing Innovation…

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Sustainability

Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is not a given. Globally, the water sector is…

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Sustainability

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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Evaporation

VIPNL: Wetland crops on water-rich peat

Peak Matching offers view of nitrogen deposition and evaporation

Smartroof 2.0

Water and Fire

BINGO

Material properties required for shallowly buried pipes

PROBE 3: an innovative model for vegetation development, groundwater recharge and nitrate leaching in a changing climate

Future temperature in the distribution network under the impact of urbanisation and climate change

A cost-effective system for measuring evapotranspiration

Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation

Test ponds in KWR garden come to life

SmartRoof 2.0 installed at Polypipe Terrain, Aylesford, UK

Bernard Voortman earns doctorate on invisible water loss

Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

An integrated analysis of the water cycle in the context of climate change

Collaboration in knowledge and research programme Lumbricus formalised

KWR places ‘water in the circular city’ centre-stage at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands

New apparatus measures invisible water loss

Kick-off of European BINGO project

Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Climate change and resilience