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Bathing water

Projects

Health
Microbial safety
Rapid detection of faecal pollution in bathing water

During nice weather, people increasingly take to the water for bathing and leisure, sometimes in large numbers. Cities, municipalities, water authorities and Rijkswaterstaat do their best to make…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
The Clean Water Experiment

In this citizen science research project, initiated by Deltares, Wageningen University, KWR, Waternet, Regional Public Water Authority Amstel, Gooi en Vecht, AMS Institute and Pavèl van Houtenvan, Amsterdam citizen scientists will research the quality of Amsterdam’s surface…

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Health
Microbial safety
Proficiency testing

Proficiency tests are an important instrument for the harmonisation of (environmental) measurements; they allow laboratories to compare their results with those of other laboratories. For more than 30 years, KWR has conducted proficiency tests for a variety…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Rapid optical detection of enterococci

Faecal contamination is the main health threat related to water worldwide. The principal monitoring parameters for the microbial safety of drinking and bathing water quality are Escherichia coli and enterococci. These parameters…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Protecting bathing water by detecting blue-green algae using DNA techniques

Every summer in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, bathing is forbidden or advised against in outdoor bathing locations because of the excessive growth of cyanobacteria. The reason…

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Alex Hockin MSc
Scientific researcher
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Alex Hockin MSc

Scientific researcher

Alex Hockin is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. In 2018, she completed her Master's in environmental hydrogeology at Utrecht University, graduating cum laude. For her Master's she studied the…

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News

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KWR, WUR and TUDelft join forces to combat diarrhoea

17 December 2015 — In 2015, KWR, Wageningen University (WUR) and Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) pooled their knowledge to develop a…

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Subjects

Enabling technologies

Hydrogenomics

Genomic techniques are developing at a very rapid pace in health, life, forensic and environmental…

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Bathing water

Rapid detection of faecal pollution in bathing water

The Clean Water Experiment

Proficiency testing

Rapid optical detection of enterococci

Protecting bathing water by detecting blue-green algae using DNA techniques

KWR, WUR and TUDelft join forces to combat diarrhoea

Hydrogenomics