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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Central web platform for groundwater abstraction data

With the objective of a having a more efficient and better structured stream of groundwater abstraction data, a new web platform is being developed based on actual measured…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Microbial profiling: short-circuit flows around water wells

Leakages from the casings and clay seals of water wells can cause short circuits between the aquifers. This applies in particular to small, unnoticed leakages resulting from the…

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Sustainability
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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Sustainability
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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
HDDW Dunea

Over the past few years, intensive collaborations between drinking water companies, KWR Water Research Institute and various market players has led to great progress in the development of Horizontal Directional Drilled Wells (HDDWs), that is, horizontal well…

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Martin van der Schans MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Martin van der Schans MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

Martin van der Schans is a hydrogeologist and project manager at KWR. His expertise and experience lie in the field of the construction, management and safeguard of the hygienic safety…

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FRESHMAN researches use of brackish groundwater as new drinking water source

01 February 2022 — After two years of preparatory and construction work, on 31 January 2022 the pumps at the Dunea pilot…

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Understanding iron chemistry helps us understand chemical well clogging and iron removal in drinking water preparation

15 June 2021 — KWR researcher Kees van Beek studied iron chemistry after he retired because iron chemistry is not only relevant…

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Dunea working on future-resilient freshwater supplies – FRESHMAN

14 July 2020 — Drinking water company and nature management authority Dunea has signed a subsidy contract with the European Union on…

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Optimisation of water wells improves the efficiency of recharge and energy storage

29 January 2020 — KWR researcher Jan van Lopik successfully defended his doctorate dissertation entitled: ‘Design of infiltration and abstraction well systems…

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Better wells for water abstraction and geothermal energy

26 June 2017 — A workshop, with the participation of 18 companies and knowledge organisations, examined the main impediments to the installation…

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Water Sector

Kees van Beek Well-Management Symposium

20 March 2017 — The subsurface is being used with increasing frequency for more and more purposes, such as water abstraction and…

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KWR, Vitens and Haitjema develop new drilling technique

17 December 2015 — Soil drilling company Haitjema, water company Vitens and KWR have together, within TKI Water Technology, developed a drilling…

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More and more interest in KWR’s Freshmaker

27 August 2015 — In 2013, together with ZLTO and Meeuwse Goes BV, KWR developed the Freshmaker technique, a method for storing…

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