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Determining reliability of modelling of drinking water warming

Water utilities want to know at which locations in the distribution network, and during which periods, risks of excessively warm drinking water may occur, and what targeted measures…

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Society
Stakeholder involvement and governance
The ‘Integrated Area Plan’: designing and assessing integrated solutions in area processes

This project is exploring how professionals working in practice can arrive at well-considered ‘Integrated Area Plans’. An Integrated Area Plan focuses on multiple and integrated solutions for various…

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Sustainable energy
HEATSTORE

The HEATSTORE project is an European project aimed at making technologies for the subsurface seasonal storage of sustainable heat ready for market uptake. With 23 European parties from nine countries the deployment is Europe-wide. In six demonstration…

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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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

Increasing water demand, climate change and rising relative sea-levels all contribute to salinisation in coastal areas, leading to shortages of freshwater for drinking water, agriculture, industry, nature and (urban) water management. This…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Shale Gas and Water

Before the Netherlands can initiate shale gas extraction, answers must be given to the question of the possible environmental risks involved for the water system. The Shale Gas and Water programme is focused on issues in the…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Effect of ATES systems on the spreading of contaminants

Historic soil and groundwater contamination is present in many city centres. The installation of aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) systems in contaminated aquifers affects the spreading of the…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Fresh in saline: Suitability maps for South Holland

Greenhouse horticulture in the Province of South Holland already makes use of subsurface water storage in areas with fresh/brackish groundwater in order to address its irrigation water shortages.…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Storage of Water : The Stippelberg

Addressing water shortage in high sandy ground regions In high sandy ground regions there is frequently a phase difference between water supply and demand. During the winter period there is a water…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Salinisation and freshwater: Ovezande

In the Southwest Netherlands Delta the availability of fresh water cannot be taken for granted. Fresh groundwater, or fresh water supplied from the Lake Volkerak-Zoom and/or the pipeline transporting river water, is…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Salinisation and freshwater: Westland

Prominent, the tomato growers association in ‘s-Gravenzande, recently started operating an installation for the aquifer storage and recovery of fresh water in a saline aquifer. The installation is part of a KWR…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Salanisation and freshwater: Nootdorp

Since mid January 2012, within the framework of the Knowledge for Climate programme (Climate Proof Fresh Water Supply theme), at an orchid grower’s in Nootdorp, KWR researchers have injected about 14,000 m3…

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DESSIN

Water scarcity and water quality present a big challenge worldwide. DESSIN (Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector) has a twofold objective. First, to promote the implementation of innovative solutions for water-related issues and, second,…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
SUBSOL

Coastal areas are the most productive and economically dominant regions of the world. The high water demand in these regions, however, puts tremendous pressure on their freshwater resources and ecosystems. This leads to problems like seasonal water…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
New applications of subsurface water storage in practice

Subsurface water storage and supply-building offer multiple opportunities for the development of robust water systems and their responsible exploitation. Pilots can contribute to demonstrating the application range and…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
Smart Wellfield: gains from smart management or separate abstraction?

In several Vitens’ wellfields, water quality varies greatly from well to well. This has adverse consequences for the treatment of the abstracted water. Over the past few years,…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Towards an optimal management of wellfields; conduct of two pilots

We still don’t know enough about how well clogging, energy use and treatment management can be optimised in an integrated manner, and the extent to which integrated optimisation…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Circular water provision in horticulture: Water to the greenhouse – Freshwater provision and well technology

Water supply is of crucial importance for greenhouse horticulture. An adequate supply of fresh (irrigation) water has to be available – during dry periods as well – and…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Freshkeeper

The supply of fresh groundwater is limited in coastal areas all over the world, while the demand for freshwater in these areas is actually increasing because of population growth and economic development. One of the effects of…

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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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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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Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – Harnaschpolder

Technology The greenhouse horticultural sector in the Netherlands requires large quantities of high-quality irrigation water at an attractive rate. This project examined the possibilities of storing treated effluent in the subsurface, and then using it for greenhouse…

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Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

The successful realisation of the greenhouse horticulture area of Nieuw Prinsenland (Dinteloord) requires that the supply of irrigation water be made sustainable. There is insufficient rainwater to meet the needs of the greenhouse horticulturalists, and there are…

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Effluent reuse – MDR in the water cycle

In the ‘Effluent reuse – MDR in de waterketen’ (Effluent reuse – MDR in the water cycle) study the potential contribution of Modular Sustainable WWTP (MDR) to the optimisation of the water…

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Innovative water treatment technologies
Iron and manganese removal in above-ground sand filters and subsurface: processes understood

In groundwater treatment, it is often essential that the iron and manganese removal run well. Even if the techniques involved have been in use for decades, a lot…

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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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W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

17 July 2020 — Last Tuesday, 14 July, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, paid a working visit to…

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COASTAR goes Chile

20 December 2018 — Certain regions in Chile are characterized as dry areas, partly because Chile currently takes too much groundwater in…

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KWR associated with four Water Innovation Prize nominations

10 October 2018 — At the Innovation Expo 2018 in Rotterdam, the Association of Regional Water Authorities and the Water Bank (NWB)…

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Subsurface thermal storage also helps heat the Netherlands sustainably in the winter

04 October 2018 — This week sees the start of the HEATSTORE project: a 16-million-euro European project aimed at making technologies for…

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Analysis of Uzbek groundwater monitoring data powered by Menyanthes

07 August 2018 — The Uzbek O’zgashkliti Institute wanted to apply monitoring of groundwater levels and hydrological analyses to better understand fluctuating…

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Urban Waterbuffer supplies water to Sparta Stadium

20 June 2018 — A Cruyff Court with a subsurface waterbuffer was opened today on the Spartaplein square in Rotterdam. The event…

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Large-scale freshwater provision in low-lying areas of the Netherlands through smart use of the subsurface

22 May 2018 — Water authorities, drinking water companies, knowledge institutes, consultant Arcadis, the Province of South Holland and the greenhouse horticultural…

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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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Sugar beet reuse water used to grow tomatoes

23 April 2018 — On 19th April, Erik van Merrienboer, Province of North Brabant Executive for Spatial Planning and Finance, officially opened…

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Collaboration offers opportunities for clean water and sustainable agriculture

03 April 2018 — Agriculture and horticulture produce large-scale emissions of (artificial) fertilisers, plant protection products and veterinary pharmaceuticals, which hinder the…

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COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

13 July 2017 — In the COASTAR (COastal Aquifer STorage and Recovery) project that recently got underway, KWR, together with Deltares and…

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Water reuse and subsurface storage: a logical combination

13 June 2017 — In Dinteloord (North Brabant) the Tuinbouwontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Horticultural Development Company) (TOM) has realised a high-quality, sustainable freshwater provision system…

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Launch of Power to X hydrogen project

22 March 2017 — On Wednesday, 22 March, a celebration was held for the launch of the Power to X project at…

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Water Sector

Ecosystem services benefit from water sector innovations

27 January 2017 — Ecosystem services are currently a focus of intense interest. An ecosystem service is a ‘service’ that the ecosystem…

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Future of Cities Forum 2016, Tianjin, China

24 October 2016 — Organizers The World Future Council, UN Habitat and the China Urban Research Center of Beijing Jiaotong University organize…

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Geothermal energy experience of KWR to the USA

10 October 2016 — The Netherlands is world leading in the application of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES). The potential for ATES…

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2nd national congres geothermal energy

18 July 2016 — Friday 8-7-2016 the 2nd Dutch Geothermal Congress was held, organised by the students at the Earth Sciences Society…

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Water Sector

AquaNES: synergy between nature and technology

09 June 2016 — The European project AquaNES was launched on 7 June during a meeting of the 30-partner consortium at coordinator…

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KWR “most stimulating environment” in the Netherlands

20 May 2016 — Our new KWR building has been named as the most stimulating environment as part of the ‘Best Building…

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Koen Zuurbier obtains doctorate with dissertation on Aquifer Storage & Recovery

09 May 2016 — On 10 May 2016 Koen Zuurbier was awarded his doctorate by TU Delft for his research into the temporary subsurface storage…

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GWRC impressed by water sector research in the Netherlands

18 April 2016 — The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to research and innovation in the water sector. That was…

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Horizon 2020 Subsol project launches its official website Subsol.org

12 April 2016 — Following the kick-off of the European project Subsol at KWR in Nieuwegein in October 2015, the consortium has…

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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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Bavaria innovates process-water reuse with KWR’s help

24 March 2016 — On 23 March 2016 Bavaria put a new screw conveyor into operation. The screw conveyor makes it possible…

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DESSIN: How can we make sustainable use of the ecosystem to solve water problems?

18 March 2016 — The ecosystem can offer solutions to many of the ‘water’ problems that confront us, such as water scarcity…

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KWR places the Circular City centre-stage at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands

09 March 2016 — On 15, 16 and 17 March 2016 be sure to visit the main source of inspiration for all…

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KWR hands over a scientific scale model of the Leeuwarden distribution network to Vitens

27 November 2015 — Working within the joint research programme for the water companies, KWR researchers designed and built a scale model…

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Conclusion of TKI De Ceuvel Cleantech Playground project

19 October 2015 — Decentralisation: a fad or a necessary step towards a sustainable city? This question was at the core of…

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Start of Horizon 2020 SUBSOL project

09 July 2015 — On 9 July 2015, the European project SUBSOL was officially started at KWR in Nieuwegein. Over the past…

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European DESSIN project meeting

02 July 2015 — In mid-2015, the German Emschergenossenschaf organised a meeting to discuss the European DESSIN project’s preliminary results and future…

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Subsurface water storage without health risks

04 May 2015 — On 29 April 2015, Andreas Antoniou was awarded his doctorate from VU University Amsterdam for his research into…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources

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

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There is a worldwide drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shift to cleaner, more…

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Sustainable resources

The circular economy is the alternative to the current – essentially linear – economy. While…

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Even if the Netherlands has a superbly functioning drinking water network, parts of it are…

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