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Projects

Biological activity
Circular Rain

With Circular Rain we are investigating the innovative storage, purification and use of rainwater. By buffering and simultaneously purifying harvested rainwater, a variety of useful applications can be envisaged for the water. Technology EWB has developed an…

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Health
Microbial safety
Rainwater as a source of drinking water: production costs and environmental aspects

Many people think it would be sustainable to make drinking water from collected rainwater. However, there is not enough rainwater in the Netherlands to meet demand. The costs…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
CitySports – climate-adaptive artificial pitches

Challenges facing cities include urban densification and climate change. As a result, every location has to serve multiple functions so that cities will continue to be healthy and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The Urban Waterbuffer

Urban areas are increasingly faced with temporary flooding caused by heavy rainfall, or water shortages due to longer drought periods. The conventional solutions aim in particular at rapidly discharging the water and at supplying water from external…

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News

News

Mannoury blue-green energy roof wins 2022 Roof of the Year award

29 March 2023 — Roof of the Year: housing project Mannoury (Amsterdam), where TKI project Urban PhotoSynthesis provides integrated solutions for the…

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News

Drinking-Water Conservation Symposium: How to get to 100 litres daily for each Dutch person?

24 February 2023 — Around 50 drinking water experts from the Netherlands and Flanders attended the drinking-water conservation symposium held at KWR…

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Blog

Are extreme weather conditions becoming the new normal?

19 September 2019 — Are extreme weather conditions becoming the new normal? How can cities arm themselves against these conditions? What solutions…

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News

KWR demonstrates value added of water knowledge for practice at trade fair

04 April 2019 — KWR presented the value added of water knowledge in water practice at Aqua Nederland Vakbeurs 2019. The event,…

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News

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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News

Which drinking water is the safest?

30 January 2018 — In recent times the safety of drinking water has regularly been in the news. Some believe that tap…

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News

Urban Waterbuffer now also in practice

19 May 2017 — How can we retain rainwater in the subsurface of urban areas longer and more effectively? And can we…

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Water Sector

Urban Waterbuffer gives value to excess rainwater

22 December 2016 — Urban areas increasingly face flooding due to intense rainfall, as well as water shortages due to long droughts.…

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