Projects
KWR’s foundation is the knowledge we develop on the basis of our leading, applied scientific research into the watercycle. We are experts in a wide range of specialist fields and we inspire the water sector to define its research issues and questions. Together, we build the knowledge needed to address complex water challenges.
KWR’s foundation is the knowledge we develop on the basis of our leading, applied scientific research into the watercycle. We are experts in a wide range of specialist fields and we inspire the water sector to define its research issues and questions. Together, we build the knowledge needed to address complex water challenges.
- Research agenda
- Projects
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‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ – a partnership in water technology
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(Soft) sensor for coagulation step in treatment
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360-degree stakeholder management
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4D Source protection in a changing world
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A cost-effective system for measuring evapotranspiration
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Adjusting WML’s strategic course
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Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products
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Adsorptive and biological removal of plant protection products from jointly collected discharge water in greenhouse horticulture
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Advanced oxidation for drinking water treatment
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Affinity adsorption
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Agent-based models for water demand – an exploration
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AgriAs
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AIR: autonomous inspection robots for drinking water pipes
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AMVD research
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Anammox
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ANSWER
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Antibiotic resistance in surface water and water treatment
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Applicability of German climate research to the Dutch situation – phase 1
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Application future failure frequency prediction method
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Application of drinking water sludge to phosphorus-rich soils to favour nature development
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Application of granular ferric (hydr)oxide for arsenic and phosphorus removal
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AquaNES
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AquaPriori
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AQUARIUS
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AquaSPICE
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Area planning process systems
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Area-focused national-regional collaboration to tackle nutrients
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Ariel
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Arsenic removal
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Assets: looking ahead to 2030 and 2050
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ATES/UV: Energetic decontamination
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B-WaterSmart
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Behavioural influence in practice
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Behavioural knowledge: dealing differently with water
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Behavioural sciences and data
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Big Data Epidemiology
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BINGO
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Bioassays for neuroactive substances in water
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Biological conversion of micropollutants in drinking water treatment
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Biological sulphate reduction in wastewater treatment
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BlueSCities
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Bridging the gap: next-generation characterisation of AOC
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BTO evaluation 2016
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BTO workshop on Collaboration Opportunities in the Cycle
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Calculation of drinking water utilities’ CO2 footprint
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CALLISTO
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Calorics
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Capillary nanofiltration (capNF) for drinking water treatment
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Central web platform for groundwater abstraction data
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Chain Explorer – fewer emissions
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Chalk Aquifer Management (CHARM)
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Circular Rain
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Circular Water 2050
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Circular water provision for horticulture: Operate
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Circular water provision for horticulture: Water in the greenhouse
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Circular water provision in horticulture: Water from the greenhouse Water treatment and reuse
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Circular water provision in horticulture: Water to the greenhouse – Freshwater provision and well technology
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Circular Water System Co-Creation in Brainport Smart District
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Citizen Science and Hardness
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Citizen Science and Lead
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Citizen Science and Lime
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CitySports
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Climate-proof drinking water, now and in the future
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Closing the watercycle in North-Holland
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COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand
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Cocktail of Substances (RIWA-Meuse)
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Combined effects of climate change and nitrogen deposition
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Condition forecast for individual mains
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Consequences of intake of back-up Lek water on drinking water quality and dune ecology
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Cooling water conditioning in the future
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CoRe Water
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CT scans as a reference for determining the condition of AC and PVC
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Customer & Market Platform
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Customer perception/experience and infrastructure
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Customer perspectives
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Customer wishes and expectations in the management of assets
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Data from smart water meters used to predict hotspots in distribution network
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Data mining for asset management – survey and water sector examples
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Data mining in suspect screening data; searching for relevant new chemicals in different water types
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Data validation implementation pilot
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DEMOWARE
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Design guidelines for sewer systems for domestic wastewater
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DESSIN
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Development of a substance database
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Development of an RT-PCR for detecting enterococci
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Development of DiVerDi software for GeoWater
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Development of WaterVision Nature
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Developments in water quality at surface water intake points for drinking water supply
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DiAMANT-Water: Data of the Future
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Digital twin demonstrator
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Discolouration prediction tool for optimal cleaning policy
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DMA fingerprint
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DMA Fingerprinting – Fase II
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DNA Diatom Biosensor
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DNA fingerprinting in surface- and wastewater management
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DNA Water system Scan & Reference Tool
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DPWE programme evaluation
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DPWE treatment robustness: test set-up and substance selection
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Drinking water biological stability in relation to temperature
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Drought in the Pleistocene uplands of Southern, Central and Eastern Netherlands
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Drugs of abuse
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Dutch Water Sector Intelligence (DWSI)
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Effect of ATES systems on the spreading of contaminants
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Effect-based monitoring in Water Safety Planning
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Effect-based water-quality measurements with bioassays
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Effective restoration of herb- and fauna-rich grasslands in dry sandy areas
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Effectiveness of nitrogen-mitigation measures in dry habitats
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Effects of Sand-Drift Dynamics on the Conservation and Restoration of Grey Dunes
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Efficient (re)use of water for a robust freshwater supply
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Efficient hot water heating
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Effluent reuse – Harnaschpolder
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Effluent reuse – MDR in the watercycle
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Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord
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Elaboration of heat-cold recovery from drinking water
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Electrochemical treatment processes
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Energy transition and drinking water phase 1: overview, impact and knowledge gaps
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Energy-efficient and sustainable Tergooi hospital
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Environmental impact of NaOH and lime milk in drinking water treatment
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EUSEME: Europe-wide Sewage analysis to Monitor Emerging drug problems
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Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation
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Exploration of climate-neutrality in the watercycle at the tactical and strategic level
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Explorations by KWR and the drinking water sector in innovative water technology
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Exploratory research into data mining
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Exploring Serious Games
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Exploring standard tests for effect-measurements for chemical water quality
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Exploring the impact of drought on the drinking water provision
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Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment
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Ferramentum: tool for insights into rapid filtration
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Fiware4Water
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Fresh in saline: Suitability maps for South Holland
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Freshkeeper
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From big water data to smart water grids
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From mains data to mains knowledge
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Further development of Water Vision Nature
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Future perspectives on peat polders
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Future temperature in the distribution network under the impact of urbanisation and climate change
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Future water use and peak factors under climate change
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Governance and knowledge action for the circular water cycle
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Ground passage in the adaptation of surface-water water companies due to population aging and climate change
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Groundwater for crops
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H-Flex: green hydrogen in a flexible electricity system
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HDDW Dunea
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HDDW Rodenhuis
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Healthy soil, healthy water system
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Heat and Cold from drinking water (HCD)
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Heat transfer to drinking water mains
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HEATSTORE
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HerCauWer
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High-throughput qPCR
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High-value reuse of lime pellets from drinking water production
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Highly polar compounds – II
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Horizon scanning and impact studies
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Hydrodynamic cavitation for effective sludge disintegration
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Hydroinformatics Platform coordination and knowledge sharing
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Hydroinformatics Platform Pilot Data Validation
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Identifying contaminations with numerical source-determination
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Identifying eDNA to understand aquatic biodiversity
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Impact studies
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Implications of antibiotic resistance for drinking water production
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Implications of the Environment and Planning Act
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Improvement potential of residuals from WML drinking water production
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Improving water quality prognosis at surface water intake points for drinking water supply
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Incorporation of soil nutrients and acidity into PROBE
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Increased density of geothermal energy systems for greater CO2 reduction
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Industry Water Network Group
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Innovative drinking water treatment
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Innovative treatment technologies – Application of AiRO technology
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Instruments – Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis
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INTEREST – Investment in, and returns from, sensor networks
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Iron and manganese removal in above-ground sand filters and subsurface: processes understood
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Iron removal for the removal of organic microcontamination
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IWA – KWR Collaboratory on Resource Recovery
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Joint Research Programme ‘Eyes & Ears’
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Joint Research Programme Impact Studies
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Joint Research Programme Incubator Function
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Knowledge exchange and stimulation of integrated asset management research
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Knowledge to the surface
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Knowledge valorisation
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Knowledge-based rules for PVC mains
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KWR to advise the State of Michigan in Flint research dispute
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KWR wastewater surveillance guidance for SARS-CoV-2
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LCA study of urban farming in Singapore
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LCA study of variants of activated carbon
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Leaching of the geochemical buffer capacity in the subsurface
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Legionella control in the tropics
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Loop-Closure Cleantech Playground Amsterdam
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Making Aquarellus applicable
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Managing concentrate streams
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Material Flow Analysis & City Blueprint Framework ReCirc Singapore
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Material properties required for shallowly buried pipes
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Measures to combat the unwanted heating of water in the pipe network
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Measuring a number of failure mechanisms in exit assessments
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Measuring impact and societal value
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Mechanisms and quantification of re-contamination in dune passage
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Menyanthes in Oezbekistan
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Micro- and ultrafiltration in surface water treatment
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Microbial profiling in dune infiltration
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Microbial profiling: short-circuit flows around water wells
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Microbiology during drinking water distribution
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Microplastics in water
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MICRORISK: Microbiological risk assessment
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Midas: Multiple Data Sources
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Modelling regrowth in the distribution network
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Molecular-biological methods
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Monitoring fish migration through eDNA
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Monitoring the effects on nature of the redevelopment of the Middel- en Oostduinen water extraction area
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Multi-Source, Single-Stage, Full-Stream RO
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Nanostructures on pipe walls to control regrowth
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Nanotechnology in water applications
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Natural viruses to monitor the integrity of membrane installations
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Networks Roadmap drinking water distribution 2050
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New applications of subsurface water storage in practice
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New water cycles
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NextGen
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Nitrogen and Dutch nature areas
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Nitrogen labelling
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NOMixed
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Non-target screening
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Non-target screening: quantitative and on time
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Nutrients: which agricultural measures make sense?
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Occurrence and removal of nanoparticles in drinking water treatment
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On-site sensoring & monitoring
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Online monitoring Aeromonas in drinking water distribution system without chlorine
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Oportunistic pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water
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Optimal design of robust and future-proof target structures
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Optimal transition to network blueprints phase II
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Optimising the location of pressure sensors
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Organic kitchen waste through sewer
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Organising the Veghel experimental plot
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Particle composition and biological stability
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Path and prerequisites for implementation of backtracing and source identification in hydraulic packages
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PATHOCERT- Pathogen Contamination Emergency Response Technologies
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Peak consumption causes
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Peak Matching offers view of nitrogen deposition and evaporation
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Performance of nanotechnology-based membranes in the removal of pathogens and organic micropollutants
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Perspective and preconditions for the development and use of autonomous inspection robots in water mains
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PFAS: A Threat for the Dutch Drinking Water Cycle?
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Pharmaceuticals from effluent
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Physical vulnerability of mains to climate change
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Picturing the pipe network
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PilotCity indoor installation
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POWER
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Power to X
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Power-to-Protein: desk study (phase 1)
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Power-to-Protein: pilot (phase 2)
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Practical guidelines for use of PE as pipe material
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Prediction and validation in organic micropollutant removal
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Prediction model condition-determination of cementitious mains – Data mining phase 2
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Preventing and controlling emissions in greenhouse cultivation
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Preventing and controlling emissions in greenhouse cultivation 2
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Preventing the flow of microplastics via effluent into surface water
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PROBE 3: an innovative model for vegetation development, groundwater recharge and nitrate leaching in a changing climate
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Processing technology for horticultural discharge water
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Production and application of granular aquafer
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Proficiency testing
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Protecting bathing water by detecting blue-green algae using DNA techniques
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Purification in water reservoirs
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PVC degradation model in Comsima
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QMRA of the distribution network
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QSAR tools and bioassays for emerging contaminants and transformation products
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Quick picture of water quality
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Quickly measuring after work on network
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Radical new sources of drinking water
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Rainwater as a source of drinking water: production costs and environmental aspects
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Rapid detection of faecal pollution in bathing water
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Rapid Filtration Engineering Assistant
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Rapid optical detection of enterococci
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Rapid, online detection of enterococci and of the total microbial activity in water
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Re-USe of Treated effluent for agriculture – RUST
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Real-time sensor measurements for a better water-quality policy
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ReCirc Singapore Community of Practice
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Recovering metals from water, sludge and fly ash
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Regrowth of bacteria of the coli group in sand filters at the Bergen and Mensink pumping stations
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Reliable and affordable backfilling of boreholes in closed thermal energy systems
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Remineralisation of RO permeate
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Removing H2S from biogas using granular iron(hydr)oxide
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Reservoir management, algal growth and sun on water
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Resilience of distribution systems under crisis scenarios
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Restoration of dry dune grasslands after high nitrogen deposition
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Reuse of activated carbon for the removal of organic micropollutants
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Reuse of industrial residual water to meet agricultural water needs
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REWATCH
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Risk perception
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Risks of industrial emissions to air for drinking water production
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River-bank filtration as alternative to direct intake
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Robustness of the drinking water infrastructure
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Role determination in area planning processes: summary of Vitens Tailored Research project results
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Role of soil passage in removal of OMPs
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Salanisation and freshwater: Nootdorp
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Salinisation and freshwater: Ovezande
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Salinisation and freshwater: Westland
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SARS-CoV-2 (RNA) in municipal wastewater: hazards and opportunities
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SCREENCAP
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Seasonal influences of surface water on fouling potential in UF
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Shale Gas and Water
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Silicon Carbide (SiC) membranes for innovative applications
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SIM4NEXUS: water-energy-land-food and climate nexus
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Smart rehabilitation of water mains
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Smart sewers
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Smart Water Networks
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Smart Water Networks – 2
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SMART ways of saving water at home
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Smart Wellfield: gains from smart management or separate abstraction?
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Smarter measurement
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Smarter sprinkling using subsurface water storage, combined with iron removal
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Smartroof 2.0
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SmartWater4Europe
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Softening 2.0 at Waternet; Leiduin production location
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Soil mechanics & dynamics
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SOLUTIONS
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SPECTORS
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Stakeholder expectations Vitens
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Stand-alone decentralised drinking water provision in outlying areas
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Stand-alone local treatment for remote areas
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STOP-IT
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Storage of Water : The Stippelberg
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Strategic decision-making for IAM: what can serious games contribute?
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Strategies for the optimal placement of water quality sensors in the distribution network
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Strengthening research into activated carbon filtration for micropollutant removal
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SUBSOL
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Subsurface iron removal with ATES geothermal energy systems
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Supplementary treatment for the removal of polar organic micropollutants
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Surveillance of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance
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Survival and growth of water lice on organic matter in drinking water distribution networks
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Sustainable airport cities
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Sustainable watercycle and geothermal energy at Lelystad Airport
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System Design Power-to-X
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Tap water awareness
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Test network for research on inspection tools and drinking water distribution
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The Clean Water Experiment
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The customer perspective toolkit
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The decision-making processes for Integrated Asset Management (IAM)
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The effect of water quality on leaching in pipes containing cement
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The hardness of water
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The importance of good water supply and water management
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The physico-chemical behaviour of purified water turbidity in distribution networks
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The Urban Waterbuffer
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Thermal energy from drinking water: TED
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TKI Innovative slaughterhouse Wastewater Treatment Technology
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TKI sewage fat solution
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Towards a multidisciplinary BTO: Insights and recommendations from the literature
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Towards an optimal management of wellfields; conduct of two pilots
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Toxicity: effect-directed water-quality measurement
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Toxicological risk assessment
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TRAMP
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Transition to increased storage temperature at Koppert Cress open thermal energy system
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Treating spent IEX regenerant streams
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ULTIMATE
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Unknown anthropogenic substances in ground- and drinking water
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Urban Photosynthesis; three functions on a single roof
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Urban water management tools
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User-friendly shell improves applicability of PROBE-dunes
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Validation and standardisation of the BPP test for drinking water
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Validation slow sand filtration at De Punt
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Value of legal and alternative regrowth parameters
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WarmingUP: Innovative Sustainable Heat Collective
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Wat-Qual
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WATCH
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Water and Fire
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Water Company Standardisation Contact Group
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Water Conservation challenge
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Water demand in a hydrogen economy
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Water field pilot: The Freshness of Water
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Water Knowledge Action Programme
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Water lice and Aeromonas
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Water Mining
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Water reuse and the freshwater provision
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Water Sector Intelligence
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Water-quality crisis
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Water-quality map
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Water4India
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Waterproof Flower-Bulb Cultivation
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WaterVision Agriculture
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WINDOW fase 1
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WINDOW Underground Thermal Energy Storage; high temperature storage
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Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 1)
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Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 2)
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