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Lead

Projects

Health
Emerging contaminants
Lead from brass components – phase III

This project examines the Dutch drinking water sector’s sampling protocol to control lead concentrations at the tap. With a tightening of the lead standard, the performance of this protocol needs to be…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Citizen Science and Lead

In this innovative research project of KWR and the Dunea water company, customers of a water company are taking part for the first time in a scientific study, as researchers, into lead water pipes. Dunea wants to…

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News

News

Smart Water Utility – how smart do you want to be?

14 May 2020 — During this year’s second knowledge exchange meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform on 23 April, the central question was…

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KWR contributes expertise to RIVM advisory note

06 May 2020 — The recent publication, ‘Advisory note on sampling strategy for the detection of lead pipes’, provides a manual for…

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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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