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Power-to-Protein: pilot (phase 2)

The supply of sufficient food, energy and water present huge challenges worldwide – among the causes are global population growth and the impact of climate change on crops. There is no obvious universal solution. Rather, what will…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Groundwater for crops

The ‘Groundwater for Crops’ TKI project is the basis of a decision-support system (DSS) that helps agriculturalists and water managers take anticipatory water management measures at the land-parcel and regional levels. Technology The DSS provides early warnings…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
From big water data to smart water grids

Due to far-reaching computerisation, smart metering, the use of (online) sensor systems in drinking water production companies and distribution networks, and automation, the quantity of ‘water’ data will grow inexorably into the…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Soil mechanics & dynamics

Information about the soil is available from a number of sources. This information is important in the estimation of the aging subsurface infrastructure. Waternet needs to structure these information sources and combine them with existing information systems…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Power-to-Protein: desk study (phase 1)

The supply of sufficient food, energy and water present huge challenges worldwide. There is no obvious universal solution. Rather, what will be needed are local, situation-oriented tailored solutions, based in part on…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Within today’s wastewater treatment practice most attention is focused on achieving extensive and stable biological nutrient removal in the activated sludge process, including a stable biological phosphorus removal…

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Alex Hockin MSc
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Alex Hockin MSc

Scientific researcher

Alex Hockin is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. In 2018, she completed her Master's in environmental hydrogeology at Utrecht University, graduating cum laude. For her Master's she studied the…

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News

Water Sector

Drones: opportunities and risks for the water companies

24 November 2016 — Drones, or RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) as they’re officially known, can be used to monitor and inspect…

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Water Sector

Dutch cities once again in the top 5 for drugs use

31 May 2016 — In 2015, for the fifth year in a row, a European study into drugs in sewer water was…

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Hydroinformatics

Hydroinformatics is the application of information technology in its broadest sense on water-cycle related issues,…

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Geoinformation

Power-to-Protein: pilot (phase 2)

Groundwater for crops

From big water data to smart water grids

Soil mechanics & dynamics

Power-to-Protein: desk study (phase 1)

Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Drones: opportunities and risks for the water companies

Dutch cities once again in the top 5 for drugs use

Hydroinformatics