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Aquifer storage and recovery

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Digital Twin for the development of data and model to support ASR management systems

Subsurface water storage, also known as Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), of excess freshwater can play an important role in enhancing the sustainability of water use in the…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
WINDOW fase 1

The WINDOW project focuses on the subsurface storage of heat. The implementation of subsurface heat storage at temperatures above 40°C is however still very limited in the Netherlands. In the WINDOW programme we aim to remove technical,…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
CitySports – climate-adaptive artificial pitches

Challenges facing cities include urban densification and climate change. As a result, every location has to serve multiple functions so that cities will continue to be healthy and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
HEATSTORE

The HEATSTORE project is an European project aimed at making technologies for the subsurface seasonal storage of sustainable heat ready for market uptake. With 23 European parties from nine countries the deployment is Europe-wide. In six demonstration…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

Increasing water demand, climate change and rising relative sea-levels all contribute to salinisation in coastal areas, leading to shortages of freshwater for drinking water, agriculture, industry, nature and (urban) water management. This…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the future. In AquaNES, we test constructed Natural and Engineered Systems (cNES) to face these challenges, develop a monitoring programme…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The Urban Waterbuffer

Urban areas are increasingly faced with temporary flooding caused by heavy rainfall, or water shortages due to longer drought periods. The conventional solutions aim in particular at rapidly discharging the water and at supplying water from external…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Salinisation and freshwater: Ovezande

In the Southwest Netherlands Delta the availability of fresh water cannot be taken for granted. Fresh groundwater, or fresh water supplied from the Lake Volkerak-Zoom and/or the pipeline transporting river water, is…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Salanisation and freshwater: Nootdorp

Since mid January 2012, within the framework of the Knowledge for Climate programme (Climate Proof Fresh Water Supply theme), at an orchid grower’s in Nootdorp, KWR researchers have injected about 14,000 m3…

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Gilian Schout PhD
Scientific researcher
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Gilian Schout PhD

Scientific researcher

Gilian Schout strives in his research in the Hydrogeology team to find sustainable solutions in geohydrochemically demanding projects. He is experienced in environmental geochemistry, which includes the use of isotope…

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gilian.schout@kwrwater.nl

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Luuk de Waal MSc
Scientific researcher Portfolio manager
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Luuk de Waal MSc

Scientific researcher Portfolio manager

Luuk de Waal is a researcher in the Water Treatment & Resource Recovery team and manages the organization-wide project-portfolio Water cycle. His research focusses on innovative water treatment technologies and…

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luuk.de.waal@kwrwater.nl

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Niels Hartog PhD
Principal scientist
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Niels Hartog PhD

Principal scientist

Dr. Niels Hartog's research focuses on the sustainable use and improvement of the quality of groundwater and the use of the subsurface as a sustainable source and storage of water…

030-6069652

niels.hartog@kwrwater.nl

06-53436286

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Klaasjan Raat PhD
Senior scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager
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Klaasjan Raat PhD

Senior scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager

Klaasjan J. Raat is a Senior scientific researcher and Project manager in the Geohydrology team. He is an expert in water resources management, water reuse, and freshwater supply in coastal…

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Klaasjan.Raat@kwrwater.nl

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Signing of declaration of intent heralds new phase for COASTAR

08 December 2022 — On 24 October, seventeen parties – from Zeeland to Groningen – signed a declaration of intent through which…

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COASTAR, one of the water-future visions at the Rotterdam biennale

18 September 2020 — On 19 September, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) opened with the exhibition ‘Drought in the Delta’, for…

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W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

17 July 2020 — Last Tuesday, 14 July, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, paid a working visit to…

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Exploration of underground thermal energy storage

16 July 2020 — On 7 July, the WarmingUP collective organised the first episode in a series of webinars on applicable knowledge…

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Water Sector

World’s coolest artificial grass pitch in Amsterdam

27 September 2019 — On Wednesday, 25 September, TKI CitySports introduced the world’s coolest artificial grass playing field on the Laan van…

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Water Sector

COASTAR goes Chile

20 December 2018 — Certain regions in Chile are characterized as dry areas, partly because Chile currently takes too much groundwater in…

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KWR associated with four Water Innovation Prize nominations

10 October 2018 — At the Innovation Expo 2018 in Rotterdam, the Association of Regional Water Authorities and the Water Bank (NWB)…

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Subsurface thermal storage also helps heat the Netherlands sustainably in the winter

04 October 2018 — This week sees the start of the HEATSTORE project: a 16-million-euro European project aimed at making technologies for…

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Field Factors wins first prize with Urban Waterbuffer

24 September 2018 — On 13 September Field Factors won the Climate Adaptation Challenge South Holland with the Bluebloqs technology, which is…

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Urban Waterbuffer supplies water to Sparta Stadium

20 June 2018 — A Cruyff Court with a subsurface waterbuffer was opened today on the Spartaplein square in Rotterdam. The event…

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Water Sector

Year Review 2016: ‘Not without reason.’

14 April 2017 — You will find our Year Review 2016 on our website. It includes facts and figures, an overview of…

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