Innovative water treatment technologies

An absolute barrier to PFAS in RO concentrate – no PFAS discharge to the environment in the drinking water sector (PAK PFAS)

An inventory study (KWR 2021.040) has shown that drinking water utilities find PFAS in their sources. PFAS are removed effectively during treatment with reverse osmosis (RO) but this…

Social environment and area planning processes

Area-based PFAS approach: system & governance analysis

...international levels to effectively reduce human and environmental exposure to PFAS. The decision-making process for a European ban on PFAS was initiated on 7 February 2023. The pesticide…

Biological activity

PFAS: A Threat for the Dutch Drinking Water Cycle?

...increasing, and to-date more than 4000 chemicals have been classified as PFAS. Water contamination and resulting human exposures from legacy PFAS, such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and emerging PFAS, such...

Innovative water treatment technologies

An integrated approach for the detection of undesirable perfluorinated substances in the water cycle

...complex mixes of PFAS in groundwater, surface water and drinking water is not known, particularly since industry is introducing more and more alternative PFAS to replace regulated substances.…

Customer perspective and behavioural research

Artist in Residence programme

...KWR site. It symbolises how microorganisms cope with the passage of time. They are constantly adapting to changing conditions. Researcher Elvio Amato is conducting research into PFAS in water. He...

Emerging contaminants

Risks of industrial emissions to air for drinking water production

...the air filters of the drinking water treatment plant were filled with soot. At present, the threat comes from the emission of PFAS from industrial activities. It has…