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Value Case Development: a process methodology for sustainable decision-making

Drinking water utilities will have to make major investments in the coming decades in areas such as asset infrastructure in order to maintain their capacity to continue supplying…

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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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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
ARSINOE

Resilience to climate change ARSINOE, a large four-year European Commission (EC) funded project (budget 15M Euros), aims to build an innovative ecosystem for climate change adaptation solutions. ARSINOE is funded under the Green Deal EC Calls (2021)…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
IMPETUS

With persisting impacts of climate change on people's health and livelihoods and the environment, the need to build resilience, adaptive capacity and sustainable and environmentally-friendly economic measures become more urgent. IMPETUS, a four-year European Commission-funded project coordinated…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
NEXOGENESIS

The water, energy, food and ecosystem (WEFE) nexus is a complex interrelationship governed by climatic and socio-economic drivers. We need holistic cross-sector considerations and policies to achieve resource use efficiency, leverage synergies and promote cross-sectoral cooperation. NEXOGENESIS,…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Nieuwegein Circular Water

In the TKI project, "Nieuwegein Circular Water", a water concept is being developed for an urban area (Nieuwegein city centre case) and implemented in practice through an interactive process with the stakeholders (municipality, Water Authority and project…

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Health
Biological activity
Reservoir management, algal growth and sun on water

There is a theme-overarching enthusiasm to tackle research questions in relation to new developments in reservoir management. This ranges from investigating the risk analysis of cyanotoxins, to the…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
WarmingUP: Innovative Sustainable Heat Collective

Collective heating systems play a major role in accelerating the sustainability of heat demand in the built environment. The aim of the WarmingUP project is to make collective heating systems reliable, sustainable…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
ULTIMATE

KWR coordinates the EC funded ULTIMATE project, working closely with 27 project partners (research institutes, utilities and SMEs). ULTIMATE is a project on water smart industrial symbiosis, and demonstrates, at 9 large scale sites across Europe, enabling…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Tap water awareness

Since the publication of the 2014 OECD report on the future-fitness of water governance in the Netherlands, the concepts of ‘awareness’ and ‘developing awareness’ have become an inescapable part of the vocabulary of managers and water professionals.…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
NextGen

NextGen will demonstrate innovative technological, business and governance solutions for water in the circular economy in ten high-profile, large-scale, demonstration cases across Europe. We will also develop the necessary approaches, tools and partnerships for transfer and upscaling.…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Optimal design of robust and future-proof target structures

The design of target structures is a topical subject in the water sector. Drinking water companies are busy with the (proactive) replacement of their mains networks. At the…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Power to X

In the future our energy supply will have to be renewable, but also reliable and affordable. In Nieuwegein we will be making a contribution to meeting this challenge through the realisation of a unique project: Power to…

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Society
Stakeholder involvement and governance
Industry Water Network Group

Through the Industry Water Network Group , KWR provides industrial partners a platform in which they can make and maintain contacts, and share and transfer knowledge. Diverse participants The Network Group consists of companies in the (petro)chemical…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
BTO workshop on Collaboration Opportunities in the Cycle

The water companies have the intention of reducing their CO2 footprint. But their own operations consume a limited amount of energy, and there are only modest levels of…

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Tavishi Guleria

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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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NWO WaterScape project gets started

29 February 2024 — The NWO WaterScape project has begun. It will focus on the development of WaterScapes: climate-robust and adaptive water…

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Blog

Soil-crop models are worthwhile to better understand processes

27 September 2023 — The experiences of a summer school about modelling; data of field experiments are required to understand the real-world…

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WiCE Inspiration Session: working together on water, circularity and sustainability

06 July 2023 — The WiCE inspiration session brings together people involved in water, circularity and sustainability. Water in the Circular Economy…

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Academic Collaborative Centre for Healthy and Safe Water

03 July 2023 — Academic Collaborative Centre for Healthy and Safe Water allows KWR and Utrecht University (IRAS) to focus on remedying…

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ANCHOR scrutinises urban water reuse

26 June 2023 — New EU project ANCHOR examines urban water reuse from technical, societal, governance and economic perspectives.

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Blog

Hydrological experiences as an Early Career at the EGU in Vienna

08 May 2023 — The quote "simple models are incorrect, but useful whereas complex models are correct but useless" was mentioned. Whether…

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EGU 2023 – Inspiration, collaboration and social relation

08 May 2023 — Natural hazards are human-made…[…or at least partly, since natural phenomena turn into disasters only when they exploit the…

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The big picture and the details – impressions from EGU’23

08 May 2023 — Decisions taken in one crisis's heat may have unforeseen long-term consequences. Science should evolve to help society prepare…

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KWR takes Vienna, overview from a first time at EGU

08 May 2023 — I learned that while different climate scenarios lead to very different predictions on the average precipitation (and thus…

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News

If we are all going to live in cities, there has to be water

22 March 2023 — If we are all going to live in the city, there must be water. And in only a…

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Blog

Waterinfodag in Den Bosch brings together data professionals in the water sector

20 March 2023 — Five delegates of KWR, Nienke Meekel, Tessa Pronk, Alifta Ariestiwi, Fred Vreeswijk and Rene ter Haar, went to…

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Giving Digital Twins the IMPETUS to become regional

15 November 2022 — The phrase “Digital Twins” has become more common in the water industry to describe creating virtual replicas of…

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News

Looking ahead for groundwater research

10 November 2022 — Groundwater extraction for drinking water production will probably be affected by changes in the chemical quality of groundwater…

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Blog

Circular Economy at IWA Copenhagen: experiences and reflections

08 November 2022 — IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition: a mouthful, but what a crazy experience! Full of enthusiasm, and curious…

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News

Meaningful youth engagement: key to a sustainable and water-inclusive future

12 August 2022 — The Youth Journey is a collaboration to catalyse meaningful youth engagement and action on water and climate.

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News

WarmingUPdate: where are we now, where we are headed?

19 July 2021 — We are halfway through the WarmingUP period and well on our way. So it’s time for a detailed…

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Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

25 June 2021 — According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy aims to design waste and pollution management with new…

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Nextgen is exploring an augmented reality app to help engage citizens on water reuse

23 March 2021 — The water industry is exploring Augmented Reality (AR) as one of the technologies to accelerate circular solutions implementation.…

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Building NextGen wastewater treatment systems

15 March 2021 — The four-year NextGen project brings together a partnership of 30 organisations to demonstration solutions for water in the…

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Identifying a shared vocabulary and relevant stakeholders are essential in developing a circular approach

11 February 2021 — Circular economy developments often focus on technology. To be successful, we need to define a common vocabulary and…

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‘Deploying scientific base for climate and clean water’

05 February 2021 — Late last year Milou Dingemans and Ruud Bartholomeus were appointed as the new Chief Science Officers (CSOs) at…

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To unlock a Circular Economy in 2021, we need trust

19 January 2021 — Climate change has such a tremendous impact on the water sector that it is in our interest to…

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ULTIMATE uses real-world, large scale industrial demonstrations to build evidence-based symbiosis applications

07 January 2021 — A total of 27 project partners have come together under the ULTIMATE project (indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a…

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Turning Wastewater into a Resource

15 June 2020 — A team of European researchers and engineers initiated the ULTIMATE project to turn wastewater into a resource. This…

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Blog

How to deal with ammonium in surface water?

18 April 2019 — At the annual ‘Emissie Symposium’, which took place on April 11, I organised a workshop on ammonium in…

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News

Ad van Wijk appointed KWR Honorary Fellow

11 March 2019 — Hydrogen pioneer and sustainable energy entrepreneur, Prof. Ad van Wijk, was today nominated Honorary Fellow 2018 for his…

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Over 2300 publications available online at KWR

05 July 2018 — KWR’s renewed online library has recently been opened to public access. The first version of the library was…

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Buenos Aires water company AySA joins Watershare

26 April 2018 — AySA, the water company of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, became a Watershare member on Wednesday, 25 April. Now…

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Water wisdom comes with ups and downs

14 March 2018 — Over the last three months Stef Koop and Kees van Leeuwen have been very busy with a number…

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International symposium of CIB W062

24 August 2017 — The annual international symposium for water supply and drainage for buildings was held in Haarlem. Jacqueline Cramer opened…

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Ruud, Martin and Jan Jaap @ European Geoscience Union

01 May 2017 — KWR gave one oral presentation, presented several posters and organized a session at the European Geosciences Union in…

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Building Liveable Cities Together

20 April 2017 — The Human Cities Coalition is a public-private partnership of organizations from business, government, NGOs and academia dedicated to…

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News

Initial results of “Boer Bier Water” are promising

15 December 2016 — The initial results of the study being undertaken by KWR show that the trial using reverse Level Controlled…

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Training students in Sustainable Development & Water Science and Management

09 December 2016 — The conclusion of the Transdisciplinary Case Study (TCS) Sustainable Development & Water Science and Management course of the…

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KWR contributes to third Freshwater Knowledge Day

09 November 2016 — The Delta Program Freshwater Plan includes initiatives and measures aimed at making the freshwater provision in the Netherlands…

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Water-wise cities require a comprehensive approach

11 October 2016 — Tuesday started off really well with an interesting keynote presentation by James Lynch of the Asian Development Bank…

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Mayor van der Laan (Amsterdam) on Water, Circularity and Social Participation in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo

29 June 2016 — In a short mission of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to Argentina and Brazil from 15 to 21 June…

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Water Sector

KWR is a new Samen voor Nieuwegein partner

11 March 2016 — KWR has become a silver partner of Samen voor Nieuwegein, an intermediary between businesses and the community in…

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