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Aarhus ReWater

The municipality of Aarhus (Denmark), because its population is growing annually by 5000 people, faces the challenge of both creating a cleaner harbour and bay and increasing the capacity of wastewater treatment plants. The current wastewater treatment…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Closing the Cycle of Nutrients from Wastewater and Process Water (KNAP)

In this cross-sectoral project within TKI Water Technology and TKI Agri & Food, research partners WUR/WENR, KWR and LeAF are working together with a wide range of public-…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Sewage surveillance of drug use

Drug use is a recognised societal problem. It is damaging to public health and has negative (undermining) consequences for public security and the environment. An effective drug policy needs to be founded on reliable drug-use and -dealing…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Reduction of pressure on groundwater through reuse of water from dairy plants in agriculture

Groundwater in the Netherlands is under pressure, both in terms of quantity and quality. Groundwater is used in several activities, including drinking water production, agriculture and industry. In…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Water-Futures

How should the world achieve high-quality water services in the future while facing severe climate, economic and population pressures under deep uncertainty? Water-Futures, a 10M Euros European Research Council (ERC) funded project (ERC Synergy Grant), aims to…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Belissima – modelling removal of OMPs in wastewater

The presence of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in wastewater has a big impact on the aquatic environment. Given that most of these substances end up in the water cycle…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Closing the water cycle

To close the water cycle, organic micropollutants have to be removed from effluent. However, today’s WWTPs are not specifically designed to remove those substances, which can encompass a wide range. Where they are, the quality of the…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
UNESCO, KWR and the University of Bath assess urban water management in 4 cities in Africa

By applying the City Blueprint approach, they will define the risks and opportunities for improvements in the cities of Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Lusaka (Zambia), Lagos (Nigeria) and Nairobi…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Application of electrocoagulation to water with low conductivity

The wastewater and drinking water sector in the Netherlands and Europe is committed to reducing its CO2 footprint. This also includes a desire to reduce the use of…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
SARS-CoV-2 (RNA) in municipal wastewater: hazards and opportunities

This project couples the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in the underground (sewage water) with above-ground testing, with the aim of evaluating the sensitivity, the predictive value for the incidence…

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Biological activity
Reuse of activated carbon for the removal of organic micropollutants

The use of personal care products, dietary supplements and medicines is constantly increasing. This is partly due to the ageing, and growing, population. A large fraction of personal…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
B-WaterSmart

In the Horizon 2020 project B-WaterSmart funded by the European Commission, KWR collaborates with 36 partners (research institutes, water utilities, technology provides, SME) to accelerate the transformation to a water-smart economy and society in European coastal regions,…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
KWR wastewater surveillance guidance for SARS-CoV-2

As Covid-19 infections are increasing again after the initial lockdowns, it is now critical to set up a surveillance and monitoring system for COVID-19. KWR can assist you…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Innovative technology for treating waste water from slaughterhouses

Waste water from slaughterhouses is difficult to treat because it contains high concentrations of solids and colloidal compounds such as blood, proteins and fats. The waste water is…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
ReCirc Singapore Community of Practice

The main aim of the project is to establish a joint Singaporean-Dutch Community of Practice (CoP) to exchange knowledge and business opportunities relating to Zero Waste and circular objectives in Singapore and…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Organic kitchen waste via the sewer

Within the framework of the circular economy, it is important for municipalities to make the best possible use of kitchen waste (fruit and vegetable waste, or ‘FVW’) through high-value, sustainable processing. In…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
EUSEME: Europe-wide Sewage analysis to Monitor Emerging drug problems

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is now an established approach in monitoring the consumption of a selection of illicit drugs. However, WBE can also become a valuable source of information…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Fiware4Water

Fiware4Water is a three-year European research and innovation project, coordinated by the French Office International de l’Eau, links the water sector to the smart solution platform ‘FIWARE’ via demonstration projects in the water cycle. FIWARE makes it…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Main-stream Partial Nitritation/Anammox process coupled to a MBR-reactor

Anammox, an acronym for ANaerobic AMMonium OXidation, is a microbial process in the nitrogen cycle. There is huge interest in the application of the Anammox process in wastewater…

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Biological activity
Surveillance of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance

The chemical and biological constituents of wastewater are a valuable source of information on human health and behavior, and on the state of the environment. The concept of…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Preventing the flow of microplastics via effluent into surface water

Microplastics are small (< 5mm), synthetic particles that can have a big impact if they flow into large surface water bodies. Larger pieces of plastic waste cause harm…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Reuse of industrial residual water to meet agricultural water needs

Agricultural yields depend on the amount of moisture in the root zone. But in the summer soil moisture levels are often insufficient and result in reduced yields. In…

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Biological activity
Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products from jointly collected discharge water in greenhouse horticulture

The ‘Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products from jointly collected discharge water in greenhouse horticulture’ project was recently launched. The project involves the development of a…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ – a partnership in water technology

More and more chemical substances are being produced and used all over the world. At the same time, increasing volumes of water are being abstracted for domestic, industrial…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
TKI sewage fat solution

Deposits of fats, oils and grease (often referred to as FOG) clump together and settle in pumping stations for example. If this causes blockages or the failure of system components, it can entail high (societal) costs. Besides…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Circular Water 2050

The project ‘Circular Water 2050 – impact and opportunities of the “fully circular in 2050” target for an urban water cycle falls under the WiCE ‘Efficient with Raw Materials’ research area. The project’s aim is to develop…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Reuse of coagulant from aquafer (HerCauWer)

In the Netherlands drinking water treatment almost always generates aquafer as a residual. By treating this material with acid, we can again transform it into iron salts, which can then be applied…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
DNA fingerprinting in surface- and wastewater management

Situations arise in surface- and wastewater management in which it is often important to be able to determine the origin of the water and of the potentially problematic…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
WATCH

Request for services for a waste water analysis report on the stimulant illicit drug markets in the EU. Objectives Conduct a wastewater monitoring exercise utilising a standardized protocol approved by the Commission and the EMCDDA to describe…

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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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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
Nanotechnology in water applications

NanoNextNL is a consortium directed at research in the field of micro- and nanotechnology. More than one hundred companies, universities, knowledge organisations and university medical centres make up the consortium. As a…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
REWATCH

Freshwater resources are increasingly under stress conditions and there exists a huge mismatch between available water resources and rising water demand in many parts of the world. The petrochemical industry is an important water user. REWATCH aims to validate…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the future. In AquaNES, we test constructed Natural and Engineered Systems (cNES) to face these challenges, develop a monitoring programme…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Affinity adsorption

The presence of pharmaceuticals and degradation products in surface water represents a threat to ecological water quality and drinking water sources. The removal of pharmaceuticals and organic micropollutants is also becoming more and more topical. Many pharmaceuticals…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Recovering metals from water, sludge and fly ash

The focus of water treatment is increasingly shifting to the recovery of raw materials, partly stimulated by the quest for a circular economy. In the same way as drinking water companies and…

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Health
Microbial safety
ANSWER

In response to the growing problem of water scarcity, the reuse of treated urban wastewater is considered to be the most suitable and reliable alternative for sustainable water management and agricultural development. In spite of the benefits…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
BlueSCities

Climate change and urbanisation are crucial phenomena for water supply, economic development and health worldwide. Since many cities battle with droughts and floods, it is imperative that urban water management be radically improved. In the European Commission’s…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
SCREENCAP

The essence of the innovative concept of Screencap is the recovery of solids from raw wastewater on the basis of particle size rather than density. The partners, Aa and Maas Water Board, CirTec and KWR Water Research…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Data mining in suspect screening data; searching for relevant new chemicals in different water types

Data from suspect screening analyses collected over the past few years contain a treasure of information. The data originate from samples of drinking water, groundwater, surface water and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Exploration of climate-neutrality in the water cycle at the tactical and strategic level

Practically all water companies have ambitions and objectives concerning a climate-neutral water cycle. In the first instance, these ambitions target the drinking-water part of the water cycle, but,…

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Sustainable energy
Sustainable water cycle and geothermal energy at Lelystad Airport

At the beginning of 2015 the Airport Decree was ratified for Lelystad Airport, providing official authorisation for the airport’s expansion. Since the new work will take place on…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Multi-Source, Single-Stage, Full-Stream RO

The objective is a tested Multi-Source, Full-Stream RO concept, with minimal pre- and post-treatment (single stage), which uses flexible water sources and produces water of impeccable quality. The concept is researched in…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Pharmaceuticals from effluent

Wastewater contains increasing amounts of pharmaceutical residues. Since the WWTPs are not designed to remove them from the water, the plants’ effluent frequently still contains pharmaceuticals. Many techniques for the removal of these pharmaceuticals, and other micropollutants,…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Loop-Closure Cleantech Playground Amsterdam

The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a testbed for clean, innovative technologies in the heart of the city of Amsterdam. The concept, which aims at closing the (biological) loop, is set up in…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Design guidelines for sewer systems for domestic wastewater

In the urban context there are two key water discharge streams: the dry-weather stream and the stormwater stream. The volume flows of domestic wastewater are essentially a function…

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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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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
On-site sensoring & monitoring

Determining nutrient concentrations with electronic finger prints and an algorithm based on an artificial neural network. Technology Within TKI Water Technology’s Smart Water Systems theme, a method has been developed which processes…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Energy-efficient and sustainable Tergooi hospital

Tergooi is developing a new hospital as part of the redevelopment of the Monnikenberg country estate to the east of Hilversum. The hospital is part of the supraregional health-care park that is…

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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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Biological activity
Biological sulphate reduction in wastewater treatment

The sludge line accounts for about one-quarter of total wastewater treatment costs. Minimising the volume of excess sludge would therefore lead to considerable cost savings. Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB)…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Sustainable airport cities

This TKI project is meant to showcase how different sectors can strengthen each other in the process of increasing the sustainability of their own sector – a win-win concept – through the application of innovative technologies originating…

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Tavishi Guleria
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Tavishi Guleria

Scientific researcher

Tavishi is an Environmental Engineer and joined KWR in September 2020 as a Scientific Researcher in the in the Innovation and Valorisation team. At KWR, she is working on the…

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Christie Stuut-Klaucke MSc
Communications consultant
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Christie Stuut-Klaucke MSc

Communications consultant

Christie Stuut is an experienced marketing and communications consultant. Her expertise lies in the field of positioning, strategic communication and the further development of company vision to (online) communication. Within…

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Siddharth Seshan
Scientific researcher Portfolio manager
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Siddharth Seshan

Scientific researcher Portfolio manager

Siddharth recently joined KWR in January 2020 as a Scientific Researcher and is part of the Industry, Wastewater and Reuse Team. Specifically, Siddharth is working on a Horizon2020 funded project…

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Maria Lousada Ferreira PhD
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Maria Lousada Ferreira PhD

Scientific researcher

Maria is an environmental engineer, with a PhD in wastewater treatment. She has been working for more than 20 years on how to combine environmental preservation with economic/social growth. Her…

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Frederic Béen PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Frederic Béen PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Frederic Béen works as a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. His research activities focus on the implementation of analytical and sampling techniques to monitor emerging contaminants…

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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Julian Muñoz Sierra is a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment and Resource Recovery team. He studied chemical engineering at the National University of Colombia. He worked as a process…

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Erik Emke BSc
Scientific researcher
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Erik Emke BSc

Scientific researcher

Erik Emke is a researcher on the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. Erik has 25 years of experience in the research, development and implementation of new analytical techniques for…

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Thomas ter Laak PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Thomas ter Laak PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Thomas ter Laak works as a senior researcher in Chemical Water Quality on the sources, monitoring, behaviour, presence, as well as modelling of (new) micropollutants in the water cycle. Over…

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Kees Roest PhD BSc
Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology
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Kees Roest PhD BSc

Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology

Kees Roest has worked at KWR since 2008 and was among the pioneers in KWR's wastewater research. On the Energy and Circular Systems team, he works on sustainable transitions, with…

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Tessa van den Brand PhD MSc
Scientific researcher Quality coordinator
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Tessa van den Brand PhD MSc

Scientific researcher Quality coordinator

Tessa van den Brand has worked as a scientific researcher at KWR since 2010 and is now one of the first members of the new Energy and Circular Systems team.…

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New Insights on Membrane Technology from SIWW 2024

05 July 2024 — It was great to be back in Singapore for the first time since the pandemic. On the first…

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The Dutch waterline for Defence starts here

23 October 2023 — How will climate change impact our water system, and how can we deal with it? This was the…

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The new urban drinking and wastewater chain: small, concentrated and sustainable

30 June 2023 — The drinking water and wastewater chains must be more sustainable in order to guarantee the availability of adequate…

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KWR publication on monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in sewage garners much interest

16 May 2023 — No fewer than three KWR researchers will receive the Willem Koerselman Prize this year: Gertjan Medema, Frederic Béen…

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Water certainty in an uncertain future

16 March 2023 — The Water Futures project looks for robust and adaptive water solutions that perform well over many unexpected futures.

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Water Sector

Conclusive business case for circular application of powdered carbon

24 October 2022 — The high-value powdered carbon that Dunea uses in drinking water production can perfectly well be given a second…

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Water Sector

CoRe Water: from evolution to a revolution in municipal water treatment

10 October 2022 — The development of a new modular and adaptive physical-chemical concept for the treatment of wastewater remains a big…

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First edition of Guide for Legionella Prevention in biological wastewater treatment plants is made public

29 July 2022 — The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management recently made available, via the Informatiepunt Leefomgeving (IPLO) website, the Guide…

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AquaSPICE: Implementation of circular water use in the European process industry

07 June 2022 — The first AquaSPICE General Assembly was held on 12 and 13 May 2022, bringing together 29 partners from…

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Towards a sustainable approach to concentrate treatment

11 March 2022 — Shifting the joint ambition regarding concentrate flows from discharge to recovery and reuse.

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Marion Koopmans receives KWR Honorary Fellowship

09 November 2021 — Marion Koopmans, Professor of Virology, receives the KWR Honorary Fellowship 2020. She has been granted the honorific title…

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Pharmaceuticals in the water cycle

27 October 2021 — Pharmaceuticals can more and more be found in the water cycle. They may affect the aquatic environment and…

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Joint Research Programme/WiCE and STOWA study use of viruses against Legionella in wastewater streams

16 September 2021 — Within the Joint Research Programme-WiCE (Water in the Circular Economy) programme, KWR and STOWA are studying the extent…

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The water sector as a reliable supplier of commodities recovered from the water cycle

20 July 2021 — Water is probably the most circular resource on earth. So it’s hardly surprising that the water sector has…

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Pilot starts with innovative technology for treating slaughterhouse wastewater

15 July 2021 — After successful bench-scale tests with an innovative anaerobic SBR (sequencing batch reactor) technology (AnSBR) for complex wastewater streams,…

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CoRe technology pilot in Roermond now processes 2 m3 of wastewater per hour

29 June 2021 — In Roermond a CoRe pilot installation is now producing a stream of very clean water from 2 m3…

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Strengthen the water sector’s capacity by transferring practice-oriented knowledge

24 June 2021 — As we move towards a more circular and sustainable water chain and climate robust water system, new insights,…

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A new phase for the City Blueprint Approach in Africa

17 June 2021 — On May 31, 2021, students in Abidjan, Lagos, Lusaka and Nairobi started applying the City Blueprint approach (CBA)…

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IUVA World Congress 2021

14 June 2021 — Every two years the International UV Association (IUVA) organizes a world congress. Last year, due to Covid, the…

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Waterwise cities will help make the world a better place

07 June 2021 — In ten years, the City Blueprint Approach (CBA) has developed into a powerful tool to assess how water-wise…

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Researchers at KWR, Exeter (UK), Greece and Spain, awarded price for their video on ‘Sewers4COVID’

07 June 2021 — Sewers4COVID is a digital observation prototype that can quickly and cost-efficiently detect outbreak hotspots at a national scale. The…

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It can be done: processing organic kitchen waste from multi-storey buildings sustainably using the sewer system

04 June 2021 — Municipal authorities want to process kitchen waste in sustainable, high-grade, ways in order to contribute to the circular…

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Covid and the UK variant: the sewage tells the truth

13 April 2021 — Presence of Covid in the population Since the outbreak of the pandemic, already more than one year ago,…

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NWO funding for research on water in the circular economy: AquaConnect and ReCoVR

23 March 2021 — KWR will participate in two basic research programmes in the field of water and resource reuse. The two…

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World Water Day 2021: Valuing Water

22 March 2021 — A team of more than 20 KWR colleagues signed up to join the World Water Run from 16-22…

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Sewage monitoring shows how covid-19 is evolving in the population

27 January 2021 — Our trend analysis of SARS- CoV-2 in sewage links the underground data with the above-ground data (new COVID-19…

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‘New regulatory and legal framework for water reuse calls for an interdisciplinary approach’

05 January 2021 — In 2020 the European Union approved a legislative proposal on the requirements for water reuse in irrigation applications.…

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Dealing differently with water in the built environment

31 December 2020 — Downpour flooding and persistent drought: two extremes that are familiar to every person living in a city or…

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How to achieve a water-wise city?

07 December 2020 — Extreme rainfall can leave city streets under water. Drought can put pressure on the water supply. Two severe…

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SETAC honours Pim de Voogt with Emeritus Membership

04 December 2020 — The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) has accorded Pim de Voogt its Emeritus Membership award. This…

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Water sector sets course for the circular economy

26 November 2020 — The recently published report ‘Stip op de horizon Circulair Water 2050’ (‘Point on the Circular Water 2050 horizon’)…

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Concentration of SARS CoV-2 in sewage shows a descending trend

16 November 2020 — Since February 2020, we have measured the SARS -CoV-2 RNA in sewage water. By correcting the results for…

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Four lessons from creating a Dutch circular face scrub

12 November 2020 — On the surface, beauty products and water treatment are worlds apart. After all, the glitz and glamour of…

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Covid in wastewater: second wave as high as the first

06 November 2020 — As early as February, KWR demonstrated the connection between the number of SARS-CoV-2 viral particles in the sewage…

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ULTIMATE & NextGen Water Circular Economy solutions

21 October 2020 — What do Trappist monks, a whisky distillery and water utilities have in common? How can water utilities and…

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Symposium on Valuable Water

19 October 2020 — Friday October 16th STOWA organized a symposium on “Valuable Water”. The main topic was the “Water factory” at…

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Water Sector

CoRe pilot underway in Roermond: the next generation of wastewater treatment

05 October 2020 — Following successful clean-water tests at the KWR Water Research Institute in Nieuwegein, on 29 September the new CoRe…

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New SARS-CoV-2 graphs for wastewater samples of September

02 October 2020 — The KWR microbiologists have extensively evaluated and improved their research methods for the surveillance of the coronavirus genetic…

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The SARS-Cov-2 sewage water samples of 20 August

25 August 2020 — Since the end of February, KWR has been monitoring concentrations of the genetic material of the coronavirus, so-called…

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Royal Academy of Engineering award Sewers4COVID team

24 August 2020 — Researchers at KWR, in collaboration with scientists from Exeter (UK) Greece and Spain, developed a fresh approach ‘Sewers4COVID’…

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A moral compass: using sewage water to study drugs use

03 July 2020 — More than half of the Dutch population believe that privacy concessions are an option in the fight against…

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EUSEME: Drugs in sewage during Dutch lockdown

17 June 2020 — In the week after the announcement of the ‘intelligent’ lockdown in the Netherlands, KWR tested levels of illegal…

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Wastewater-based epidemiology: Wastewater reflection on society

16 June 2020 — Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) uses sewage as a source of information about citizens’ health and lifestyle. Analysis of sewage…

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Sewage monitoring as an early warning system for corona

29 May 2020 — The emerging questions of the past weeks are: How does the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage water…

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Coronavirus in sewage falls faster than recorded patient numbers

24 May 2020 — Since early February, KWR’s microbiologists have been studying levels of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in sewage in collaboration with the…

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First methamphetamine waste discharge measured in Eindhoven

12 March 2020 — The consumption of cocaine and MDMA (XTC) in the Netherlands has been the highest in Europe for a…

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Monitoring emerging drug problems in Europe

04 December 2019 — The partners of the EUSEME project came together on 19 and 20 November for the kick-off meetings. Researchers…

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Conference on emerging contaminants and micropollutants

11 November 2019 — From 20 to 23 October the 11th Micropol & Ecohazard conference was held in Seoul, South-Korea. The Micropol…

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Healthy drinking water and wastewater treatment for all

07 November 2019 — If you don’t measure what you want to know, you can’t manage the progress. That also applies to…

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Wastewater analysis reveals trends in international drug use

23 October 2019 — The results of seven years’ wastewater analysis have been compiled in an article published in the prestigious journal…

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Water reuse and freshwater provision: connecting sectors

16 October 2019 — Having sufficient freshwater, for all users and uses. Always. In the Netherlands and Flanders this is becoming more…

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Jan Hofman strengthens KWR’s Industry, Wastewater and Reuse team

07 October 2019 — Jan Hofman has since 2015 been associated with the University of Bath but, last 1 September, he returned…

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The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities

29 August 2019 — Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities.…

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Launch of Fiware4Water: digital solutions for water

28 June 2019 — On 10 June 2019, Waternet and KWR, together with twelve European partners, launched the Fiware4Water project. This three-year…

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Water reuse presents opportunities

05 June 2019 — The reuse of water is becoming an increasingly central focus of attention. This reuse presents companies with important…

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Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

04 June 2019 — Since the beginning of April, Kees Roest has been program director at the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology…

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Consortium researches impact of ‘Bubble Barrier’ on microplastics in treated wastewater

06 May 2019 — A research consortium, comprising the water utility PWN, Hollands Noorderkwartier Water Authority (HHNK), The Great Bubble Barrier and…

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KWR member of Water Reuse Europe

24 April 2019 — KWR has become a member of Water Reuse Europe (WRE). This industry association for Europe’s rapidly growing water…

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Water Quality Knowledge Impulse launched

05 April 2019 — The water quality in large parts of the country has clearly improved over the last few years, but…

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CatchAmed binds pharmaceuticals in the toilet

01 April 2019 — Increasing attention is being paid to methods for the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater. In the TKI programme’s…

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Enough water and dry feet in the city

21 March 2019 — With summer in view, many people are wondering whether it will be as hot and dry as last…

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2018 figures on drugs in European cities’ wastewater

14 March 2019 — The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) today published the results of drug monitoring of…

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How to deal with micropollutants in water

13 March 2019 — Additional treatment steps for WWTPs; Learning by doing, doing while learning As WWTPs in general haven’t been designed…

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Power-to-Protein: safe protein production from wastewater

28 January 2019 — Two research pilots demonstrate that it is possible to safely use ammonium recovered at two WWTPs for the…

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Membrane distillation and freeze crystallisation treat salt-streams containing organic pollutants

23 January 2019 — The Orpheus project shows that membrane distillation and freeze crystallisation offer possibilities for the concentration of high-saline streams…

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CoRe Water project launched with pilot plant at Wehl WWTP

13 December 2018 — TKI Water Technology’s CoRe Water project has begun with the installation of a first pilot at the Rijn…

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Prof. Pim de Voogt: 25 years in Environmental Chemistry

03 November 2018 — Prof. Pim de Voogt, is – after a fruitful career of more than 25 years – retiring from…

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WHO Meeting underscores importance of achieving SDG 6

24 October 2018 — KWR was present at the WHO High Level Meeting and Technical Workshop on Water Safety and SDG 6…

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Water in the City: rain after sunshine!

25 September 2018 — Our work on ‘Water in the City’ is based on an old piece of medical wisdom: prevention is…

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Research into metals in the water cycle

05 June 2018 — The focus of water treatment is increasingly shifting to the recovery of raw materials, partly stimulated by the…

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Kees van Leeuwen appointed David Parkin Visiting Professor at Bath

23 April 2018 — Kees van Leeuwen, Principal Scientist at KWR and professor of Water Management and Urban Development at Utrecht…

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Water reuse with a nanofiltration membrane bioreactor in Singapore

13 February 2018 — At the beginning of March, a project will start at the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) on water…

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Professor Willy Verstraete appointed KWR Honorary Fellow

25 January 2018 — On 25 January Professor Willy Verstraete was appointed KWR Honorary Fellow. KWR bestowed Verstraete the Honorary Fellowship in…

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Sewer water analysis shows: amateur athletes use of ‘fat burner’ DNP

24 January 2018 — In the study entitled ‘Wastewater-based tracing of doping use by the general population and amateur athletes’, KWR researchers…

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Pharmaceuticals in wastewater conference

23 January 2018 — In the Meander Medical Center Amersfoort STOWA organized a conference about the presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. The…

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Nutrient Platform members’ meeting at KWR on 7 December 2017

18 December 2017 — The Nutrient Platform members’ meeting is held three times per year at one of the 35 members’ premises.…

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VibroCav tool offers prospect of more effective sludge disintegration

04 December 2017 — Sludge processing accounts for one quarter of the operational costs in a wastewater treatment plant. Waterboards have long…

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Kees Roest speaks at Fosfaatspagaat Symposium

22 November 2017 — On Sunday, 19 November the Fosfaatspagaat Symposium was held in the Metaal Kathedraal in Utrecht. The event was…

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KWR again WHO Collaborating Center Water Quality & Health

15 November 2017 — WHO has again designated KWR as a Collaborating Centre on Water Quality and Health. Over the next four…

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CoRe Water: from WWTP to a sustainable water factory

31 October 2017 — On the first day of Aquatech 2017, Allied Waters, BLUE-tec, KWR and Royal HaskoningDHV signed a collaboration agreement…

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Innovations at centre-stage of Waterevent

18 October 2017 — More than 150 visitors attended the annual Waterevent at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) Greenhouse Horticulture and LTO…

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Sulphate-reducing bacteria also work in WWTP

17 October 2017 — KWR, Paques and Delfluent Services BV have conducted a pilot test with sulphate-reducing bacteria under winter conditions at…

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10th Micropol & Ecohazard Conference in Vienna

21 September 2017 — From 17 till 20 September the 10th Micropol & Ecohazard conference was held in Vienna. The conference consisted…

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Korean consortium wins IWA Award for Best Practices on Resource Recovery

08 August 2017 — Partnered with Watershare, the International Water Association’s (IWA) Resource Recovery Cluster has concluded the IWA Award for Best…

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WHO expert meeting: the role of water in spreading antimicrobial resistance

05 July 2017 — On 5 and 6 July, 30 experts from all over the world met at KWR to assist the…

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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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Detection, removal and recovery potential of metals from the water cycle

08 May 2017 — The focus of water treatment is increasingly shifting to the recovery of raw materials. Drinking water companies, waterboards…

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‘The future of the water economy is circular’

30 March 2017 — ‘There is nothing in the urban watercycle that is negotiable. Water is a matter of quality and safety…

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The connecting role of water in the circular economy

24 February 2017 — As of 21 March 2017, the TKI Water Technology partners will be present at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands…

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Workshop on pharmaceuticals

21 February 2017 — Load and concentrations of pharmaceuticals in water are increasing. Therefore, it will become more and more important to…

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Citizen trust: key to successful introduction of water reuse

14 February 2017 — In principle, Europe’s citizens have a positive attitude towards water reuse. But whether they would personally reuse water…

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Metals in the water cycle: insight and opportunities

15 November 2016 — Is it possible to recover (scarce) metals in an economically responsible manner from the watercycle – from drinking…

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Presenting QMRA at Iranian Conference on Environmental Health and Sustainable Development

24 October 2016 — Iran is facing many challenges in the field of environmental health, including air pollution, water and food contamination…

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City Blueprint at Habitat III conference: host city under the microscope

13 October 2016 — Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, will take place from 17 to…

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Sustainability pilot with struvite pellets for lush Schiphol grasslands

08 September 2016 — On 7 September 2016 struvite fertilising pellets were applied to the areas next to Schiphol airport’s runways Schiphol-Rijk…

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Paul Jeffrey appointed visiting professor

23 June 2016 — With the appointment of Prof. Dr. Paul Jeffrey as visiting professor at the Knowledge Management group, KWR has…

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Effective removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater

03 May 2016 — Wastewater contains more and more pharmaceuticals that are difficult to remove in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This issue…

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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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2015 Willem Koerselman Award to Cornelissen and Roest

12 April 2016 — Emile Cornelissen and Kees Roest won the 2015 Willem Koerselman Award for their article ‘Forward osmosis for application in…

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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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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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New DNA analysis method helps optimise biological phosphate removal

01 March 2016 — Royal HaskoningDHV and KWR have developed, within the Smart Water Systems theme of TKI Water Technology, a…

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New Power-to-Protein website: all about producing protein from wastewater

02 February 2016 — The Power-to-Protein concept is attracting a great deal of attention. The process involves the highly efficient production of…

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KWR, WUR and TUDelft join forces to combat diarrhoea

17 December 2015 — In 2015, KWR, Wageningen University (WUR) and Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) pooled their knowledge to develop a…

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‘Boer Bier Water’ wins 2015 ZLTO Initiative Award

11 December 2015 — The farmers and growers in the municipality of Laarbeek, together with brewers Bavaria, have uniquely combined their strengths…

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‘Resource Recovery in the Water cycle’: what does the future look like?

10 November 2015 — On 3 November, the ‘Accelerating Resource Recovery from Wastewater’ workshop was held during the Amsterdam International Water Week…

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Challenging governance research for Vitens

03 August 2015 — Customer excellence is of paramount importance for Vitens. To this end, KWR explored how Vitens can best attune…

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KWR and water companies in the grip of pyrazole discharges for long spell

09 July 2015 — In the summer of 2015, Limburg Water Distribution Company (WML) detected a pollutant in the river Meuse, which…

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Best H2O article 2014: pharmaceutical spreading via WWTPs

23 April 2015 — On 23 April 2015, at the Royal Dutch Water Network (KNW) spring conference in Utrecht, Lieke Coppens (KWR;…

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Updated, online database on waterborne pathogens

15 April 2015 — From 12 to 15 April 2015, an international group of 35 scientists working on the Global Water Pathogen…

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Aa and Maas Water Board, BWA and KWR sign partnership agreement on finescreen technology

03 March 2015 — On 3 March 2015, the Aa and Maas Water Board, technology company BWA and KWR signed an agreement…

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