Cities - KWR

AIWW Summit on Amsterdam Agreements and SDGs

In preparation for the next Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) of November 2019, an extra...

Cool heads and dry feet thanks to blue-green roof

01 November 2018 — At the annual National Delta Congress, outgoing Delta Programme Commissioner, Wim Kuijken, shined the spotlight on Smartroof 2.0.

Smartroof 2.0 at National Delta Congress 2018

Over the last two years KWR, in collaboration with partners within TKI Water Technology, has carried out research...

Rain after sunshine!

25 September 2018 — Our work on ‘Water in the City’ is based on an old piece of medical wisdom: prevention is...

Developing capacity to overcome water challenges in a rapidly changing world

20 September 2018 — How to address our water challenges? Climate change and urban growth are making this question increasingly important. Despite...

Analysis of Uzbek groundwater monitoring data powered by Menyanthes

07 August 2018 — The Uzbek O’zgashkliti Institute wanted to apply monitoring of groundwater levels and hydrological analyses to...

Water wisdom comes with ups and downs

14 March 2018 — Over the last three months Stef Koop and Kees van Leeuwen have been very busy with a number...

Drought – a global challenge in cities

30 January 2018 — Recently, on 26 January 2018, an article on ‘thirsty cities’ appeared in ‘ het Algemeen Dagblad’ (AD),...

Collective research on Water in the Circular Economy

The collective research programme Water in the Circular Economy (WiCE) involves the joint research of the water companies...

Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

08 September 2017 — On Friday, 8 September, the innovative, blue-green SmartRoof 2.0 was opened at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. The hot,...

Opening Project SmartRoof 2.0

On Friday, 8 September, the innovative, blue-green SmartRoof 2.0 project will be opened at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam.

Water Knowledge Action Programme

Managers, researchers and practice innovators are working on water governance in the Water Knowledge Action Programme to realise...

Assessing resilience at the city level

22 May 2017 — Resilient solutions to urban water challenges are becoming increasingly important due long-term and uncertain trends of climate change,...

Urban Waterbuffer now also in practice

19 May 2017 — How can we retain rainwater in the subsurface of urban areas longer and more effectively? And can we...

Urban Water Atlas for Europe

01 May 2017 — Last week the European Commission published the Urban Water Atlas for Europe, a complete panorama...

Building Liveable Cities Together

20 April 2017 — The Human Cities Coalition is a public-private partnership of organizations from business, government, NGOs and academia dedicated to...

First Knowledge Workplace of the Water Knowledge Action Programme

14 April 2017 — On 12 April 2017, the Observant in Amersfoort was filled with practice innovators, researchers and decision-makers committed to...

Blue-green roof system for active cooling, urban biodiversity and lower rainwater runoff

Heat stress is a growing problem in the urban environment. Industry, real-estate managers and government are working in...

The Urban Waterbuffer

Urban areas increasingly face flooding due to intense rainfall, as well as water shortages resulting from longer droughts.

Urban Waterbuffer gives value to excess rainwater

22 December 2016 — Urban areas increasingly face flooding due to intense rainfall, as well as water shortages due to long droughts.

Workshop and concluding conference of the European BlueSCities project

15 December 2016 — The workshop and concluding conference of the BlueSCities project, part of the Horizon 2020 programme of...

Future of Cities Forum 2016, Tianjin, China

24 October 2016 — Organizers The World Future Council, UN Habitat and the China Urban Research Center of Beijing Jiaotong University organize...

Water-wise cities require a comprehensive approach

11 October 2016 — Tuesday started off really well with an interesting keynote presentation by James Lynch of the Asian Development Bank...

Jan Vreeburg appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter

18 August 2016 — Dr. Ir. Jan Vreeburg, principal scientist at KWR and associate professor of Urban Environmental Technology and Management...

Blue Cities: everything revolves around the city

27 July 2016 — Blue, green, sustainable, smart or climate-adaptive. In the interest of the transition towards the habitable city of the...

Mayor van der Laan (Amsterdam) on Water, Circularity and Social Participation in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo

29 June 2016 — In a short mission of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area to Argentina and Brazil from 15 to 21 June...

BlueSCities

Climate change and urbanisation are crucial phenomena for water supply, economic development and health worldwide. Since many cities...