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Health
Emerging contaminants
PARC: European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals

The EU-wide research and innovation programme PARC was established in order to improve the risk assessment and sustainability of chemicals. The PARC project will strengthen the scientific basis…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Implementation of screening and NTS methods in practice

Drinking water laboratories have recently expressed a need for the further integration of screening methods, including non-target screening (NTS), in the methods used to monitor water quality. Technological…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Environmental forensics: pollution signatures

The presence of anthropogenic substances in the drinking water chain poses challenges for the water sector, and specifically for drinking water companies. That presence is undesirable, and sometimes even problematic. Although treatment…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Big data – analysis and integration of chemical and toxicological data

Monitoring the water quality of drinking water is challenging due to the presence of complex mixtures of mostly unknown substances that vary in concentration and composition. Over the…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Drugs production waste in groundwater: field research and action perspectives

Little is still known about the impact of the long-term or extensive discharge of chemical waste from the production of synthetic drugs (SYNDRU) on groundwater quality and therefore…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Nanoplastics in drinking water

It is becoming increasingly clear that plastic is everywhere. That has been demonstrated in numerous environmental compartments, including soil, sediment, surface water and air. Data about the presence of microplastic particles in surface water are sparse, and…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Integration of non-target screening, statistical analyses and bioassays for the global assessment of chemical water quality

Thanks to developments in screening methods based on high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), the detection of chemicals in water now not only allows for the detection of specific substances…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
New chemical analysis methods

The world around us is changing rapidly and new techniques emerge regularly. The ongoing assessment of detection technologies (instrumental and otherwise) makes it possible to identify their possible value for the water sector in good time. BTO…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Impact of substances of very high concern in the environment

The water sector is being increasingly confronted with substances of very high concern and new emission pathways for those substances. Substances of very high concern are a threat…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Non-target screening

The steady growth in the production and use of chemicals is leading to an increased presence of these compounds in drinking water and drinking water sources. Target screening is no longer sufficient for the monitoring of all…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Instruments – Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis

The Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis is equipped with specialised instruments, the most important of which are described in this page. Mass Spectrometry Mass spectrometry is…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
Unknown anthropogenic substances in ground- and drinking water

The Drinking Water Regulations require a water company to follow the statutory monitoring programme or otherwise have a monitoring programme that has been set up on the basis…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Shale Gas and Water

Before the Netherlands can initiate shale gas extraction, answers must be given to the question of the possible environmental risks involved for the water system. The Shale Gas and Water programme is focused on issues in the…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
Nanotechnology in water applications

NanoNextNL is a consortium directed at research in the field of micro- and nanotechnology. More than one hundred companies, universities, knowledge organisations and university medical centres make up the consortium. As a…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Nitrogen labelling

Among the reasons analytical chemistry is important for the drinking water sector, is the latter’s need for unequivocal identification of nitrogenous by-products and for toxicological risk assessment of the formed products. The objective of this project is…

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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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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Knowledge-based rules for PVC mains

As a result of the large-scale use of PVC by the Dutch drinking water sector since the 1950s, 52% of the current drinking water distribution network is made of this pipe material.…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Effects of Sand-Drift Dynamics on the Conservation and Restoration of Grey Dunes

Since 2012, within the framework of DPWE, research has been ongoing on the restoration and management issues of dry dune grasslands (habitat Grey dunes). The research is a…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Data mining in suspect screening data; searching for relevant new chemicals in different water types

Data from suspect screening analyses collected over the past few years contain a treasure of information. The data originate from samples of drinking water, groundwater, surface water and…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Circular water provision in horticulture: Water from the greenhouse Water treatment and reuse

Water supply is of crucial importance for greenhouse horticulture. An adequate supply of fresh (irrigation) water has to be available – during dry periods as well – and…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Within today’s wastewater treatment practice most attention is focused on achieving extensive and stable biological nutrient removal in the activated sludge process, including a stable biological phosphorus removal…

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Experts

Audrey Biesmans
Technician
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Audrey Biesmans

Technician

Audrey Biesmans began working as a chemical analyst in the Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis (LMC) in April 2021. She works primarily with liquid chromatography coupled with mass…

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audrey.biesmans@kwrwater.nl

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Nienke Meekel MSc
Scientific researcher
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Nienke Meekel MSc

Scientific researcher

Nienke Meekel is a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. In July 2020, she completed the Analytical Sciences track of the Master Chemistry at both the University…

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nienke.meekel@kwrwater.nl

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Frederic Béen PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Frederic Béen PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Frederic Béen works as a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. His research activities focus on the implementation of analytical and sampling techniques to monitor emerging contaminants…

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frederic.been@kwrwater.nl

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Claudia Kooijman
Technician
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Claudia Kooijman

Technician

Claudia Kooijman is active as a chemical analyst in the Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis (LMC). She works mostly in the application of ICP-MS for metal analysis, but…

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Nanda Huijbens-Berg
Laboratory coordinator
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Nanda Huijbens-Berg

Laboratory coordinator

Nanda Huijbens-Berg is the coordinator of the Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis (LMC). She is the first contact person for activities conducted in the laboratory. These activities consist…

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News

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Better understanding of concentration dynamics of substances in surface water

11 March 2024 — Research demonstrates: clusters of substances in surface water show similarities in concentration patterns. Useful knowledge in getting a…

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Research helps to reduce the impact of Substances of Very High Concern on drinking water supplies

11 May 2023 — More knowledge about the toxicity and behaviour in soil and treatment of Substances of Very High Concern helps…

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Designer drugs dodge the law

30 September 2021 — Every year tens of new substances appear on the market in Europe; substances that actually have stimulating, psychotropic…

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Wastewater-based epidemiology: Wastewater reflection on society

16 June 2020 — Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) uses sewage as a source of information about citizens’ health and lifestyle. Analysis of sewage…

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Margo van der Kooi wins 2019 Willem Koerselman Award

20 May 2020 — KWR analyst Margo van der Kooi has won the 2019 Willem Koerselman Award. She received the award as…

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Column

Should we reconsider our love for indestructible organic-halogen compounds?

07 January 2020 — PFAS, which stands for Per- and PolyFluoroAlkyl Substances, are currently causing a great deal of commotion. Why have…

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Blog

EMCON 2018 Conference on emerging contaminants

05 July 2018 — The 6th International Conference on Emerging Contaminants was held in Oslo, Norway, from 25 to 28 June, 2018.…

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Wastewater epidemiology has grown up

24 May 2018 — In ten years wastewater epidemiology has developed into a mature field of knowledge which provides objective data on…

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Netherlands number 1 user of XTC in Europe

07 March 2018 — The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) today (11:00 CET) published the results of the…

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GenX report: drinking water in the Netherlands is safe

22 November 2017 — RIVM and KWR have produced a report in response to the presence of GenX in drinking water…

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Water Sector

‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ research programme begins

01 September 2017 — Today saw the start of a new research programme aimed at expanding our knowledge about the presence, hazards…

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New dumps and increase in the use of cocaine and cannabis

13 December 2016 — The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) today published the result of drug monitoring in…

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Water Sector

Successful meeting of KWR proficiency test participants

14 November 2016 — On 8 November 2016, KWR received the participants in its proficiency tests. The attendance was high: more than…

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Water Sector

New DNA analysis method helps optimise biological phosphate removal

01 March 2016 — Royal HaskoningDHV and KWR have developed, within the Smart Water Systems theme of TKI Water Technology, a…

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Water Sector

High-value reuse of lime from drinking water softening is sustainable and profitable

16 February 2016 — At the end of 2015, the TKI Water Technology research project ‘Marketing Dutch lime pellets’ was successfully completed.…

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KWR and water companies in the grip of pyrazole discharges for long spell

09 July 2015 — In the summer of 2015, Limburg Water Distribution Company (WML) detected a pollutant in the river Meuse, which…

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Subjects

Enabling technologies

New materials and technologies

Detecting and removing emerging contaminants calls for advanced materials and technologies. KWR develops knowledge about…

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Chemical analysis

PARC: European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals

Implementation of screening and NTS methods in practice

Environmental forensics: pollution signatures

Big data – analysis and integration of chemical and toxicological data

Drugs production waste in groundwater: field research and action perspectives

Nanoplastics in drinking water

Integration of non-target screening, statistical analyses and bioassays for the global assessment of chemical water quality

New chemical analysis methods

Impact of substances of very high concern in the environment

Non-target screening

Instruments – Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis

Unknown anthropogenic substances in ground- and drinking water

Shale Gas and Water

Nanotechnology in water applications

Nitrogen labelling

Proficiency testing

Knowledge-based rules for PVC mains

Effects of Sand-Drift Dynamics on the Conservation and Restoration of Grey Dunes

Data mining in suspect screening data; searching for relevant new chemicals in different water types

Circular water provision in horticulture: Water from the greenhouse Water treatment and reuse

Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Better understanding of concentration dynamics of substances in surface water

Research helps to reduce the impact of Substances of Very High Concern on drinking water supplies

Designer drugs dodge the law

Wastewater-based epidemiology: Wastewater reflection on society

Margo van der Kooi wins 2019 Willem Koerselman Award

Should we reconsider our love for indestructible organic-halogen compounds?

EMCON 2018 Conference on emerging contaminants

Wastewater epidemiology has grown up

Netherlands number 1 user of XTC in Europe

GenX report: drinking water in the Netherlands is safe

‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ research programme begins

New dumps and increase in the use of cocaine and cannabis

Successful meeting of KWR proficiency test participants

New DNA analysis method helps optimise biological phosphate removal

High-value reuse of lime from drinking water softening is sustainable and profitable

KWR and water companies in the grip of pyrazole discharges for long spell

New materials and technologies