European collaboration
KWR advises the European Commission in policy formulation, regulation, planning and implementation by means ranging from quick recommendations to long-term scientific research and vision development. For many years now, KWR has advised the Directorate General Environment on all technical and scientific questions regarding the development and implementation of the Drinking Water Directive 98/83/EC. For the proper implementation of this directive, KWR has a network in all the European Union’s 27 Member States and contacts with every national drinking water regulatory authority.

European cooperative framework for water cycle research
On 29 January 2010 leading water cycle research institutes signed an agreement to set up a cooperative framework for water cycle research on a European level. The signing institutes include CETaqua (Barcelona, Spain), LNEC (Lisbon, Portugal), NTNU and SINTEF (Trondheim, Norway), IWW (Mülheim, Germany) and KWR Watercycle Research Institute (Nieuwegein, The Netherlands). 

With this initiative, which builds on fruitful and productive cooperation in European projects such as WEKNOW, TECHNEAU and PREPARED, the founding members wish to team up in order to provide their national water cycle stakeholders with the most relevant and first-of-class technical and scientific knowledge and expertise in the field. Bridging the science system and end users on a European national level is a main target and unique selling point of the cooperative framework.  This will enable the European water cycle sector to better cope with the huge challenges ahead such as demographic changes, climate challenges, ageing assets, scarce resources and the need for more sustainable strategies and operations. 

The coming period the consortium will further elaborate the cooperative framework including a joint programme for research and knowledge exchange in close cooperation with universities and utilities across Europe.

GWRC (Global Water Research Coalition)
KWR is one of the co-initiators of the GWRC. This coalition involves 14 leading research institutes in the area of drinking water and wastewater from Australia, South Africa, the United States, Singapore and five European countries. Its members respond quickly to current water issues, jointly developing research strategies for global water problems, and collaborating in conducting the research.

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TECHNEAU
TECHNEAU is a large-scale European research programme, which is coordinated by KWR and involves the participation of more than 30 business-sector and scientific organisations. TECHNEAU develops new technologies for the production and monitoring of drinking water, but also works on the optimisation of existing technologies. Risk management and consumer behaviour are objects of its research as well. The programme is closely connected with that of BTO.

 

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