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COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance must-reads

08 July 2020 — Since early February 2020 KWR-researchers have been monitoring sewage water at various wastewater treatment plants in The Netherlands in order to detect COVID-19 RNA. On this web page we summarise all the KWR-publications on the topic. Scientific publications...

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The SARS-Cov-2 sewage water samples of 7 July

10 July 2020 — Since late February, KWR has been measuring the concentration of genetic material of the coronavirus (SARS-COV-2 RNA) in…

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Water sector can use hydroinformatics to take uncertainties into account in decision-making

09 July 2020 — The third knowledge exchange meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform on 25 June focused on uncertainty and uncertainty propagation.…

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A moral compass: using sewage water to study drugs use

Thomas ter Laak PhD — More than half of the Dutch population believe that privacy concessions are an option in the fight against…

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All is hydroinformatics?

Peter van Thienen PhD — The world is becoming increasingly digitalised, and we are reaping many benefits from this, in terms of convenience…

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KTH and KWR join forces in heavy metal research in water

22 June 2020 — Aim is to develop, maintain and share knowledge between the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and KWR.…

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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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Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in sewers and in patients

16 June 2020 — It recently became possible to detect SARS-CoV-2 in sewage water, making it possible to see the extent to…

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