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Citizen science and public participation
The customer as tourist

For the drinking water utilities customers are not only drinking water consumers. As tourists they also use the nature areas that these organisations manage. What is the perception of the customer as tourists? And to what extent…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Drought monitoring: youngsters join in

An exceptional citizen science study will be conducted this summer, with participants building their own sensors and measuring drought in their gardens. The measurements will be used to give advice about watering.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Water Conservation challenge

How can drinking water customers be moved to themselves save water? And is it actually possible to exert such influence? That is the objective of this practice-oriented research project, in which we challenged participants to consume as…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Water-quality crisis

Communication during an acute water-quality crisis requires an approach that differs from regular risk communication. The goal of this project is to develop an applied scientific understanding, with which to define the most effective response strategies in…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Behavioural influence in practice

The objective of this research project is to generate scientific understanding and tested techniques to study how, and to what degree, the behaviour of domestic customers can be effectively influenced. This will involve setting up a behavioural…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Behavioural knowledge: dealing differently with water

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. Water quality is not only a matter for water managers. We are all collectively responsible for water of…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Behavioural sciences and data

Citizens are increasingly asked to adapt their behaviour. Drinking water utilities also make such requests. During drought periods for instance we see customers asked to be economical with their water during peak hours. We also know that…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
The customer perspective toolkit

In a world where water company customers can no longer be seen as all the same, an understanding of the different types of customer becomes more and more important. This project considers how knowledge of different water…

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Society
Valorisation
The hardness of water

Research shows a clear link between the ‘perceived quality’ of tap water and the perception of water hardness: the softer customers perceive water to be, the higher the quality rating. This project analyses the extent to which…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Tap water awareness

Since the publication of the 2014 OECD report on the future-fitness of water governance in the Netherlands, the concepts of ‘awareness’ and ‘developing awareness’ have become an inescapable part of the vocabulary of managers and water professionals.…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Risk perception

On the basis of insights into customers’ perceptions, needs and experiences, communications guidelines are being developed with regard to the presence of anthropogenic substances in drinking water and its sources. Challenges regarding transparent communications The number of…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Customer perspectives

It is becoming increasingly clear that one can no longer generalise about drinking water customers. This project reveals the existence of drinking water customers with different perspectives for all of the Netherlands and in De Watergroep’s supply…

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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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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Citizen Science and Hardness

What does it mean to involve drinking water customers as researchers for a period of six months? In this citizen science project of KWR and the water company Brabant Water, customers will, for the first time, participate…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Citizen Science and Lime

In this citizen science research project of KWR and the drinking water company WML, the clients of a water company are, for the first time, participating as researchers in a scientific study of drinking water hardness and…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Citizen Science and Lead

In this innovative research project of KWR and the Dunea water company, customers of a water company are taking part for the first time in a scientific study, as researchers, into lead water pipes. Dunea wants to…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Water field pilot: The Freshness of Water

In this citizen-science field pilot project, citizens participate for the first time as actual researchers in scientific research into drinking water. With the message that tap water is a fresh product, citizens…

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Experts

Noor van Dooren
Scientific researcher
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Noor van Dooren

Scientific researcher

Noor van Dooren is a researcher on Public Design in the Resilience Management and Governance team. She earned her master's degree in Transnational Ecosystem-based Water Management, a double-degree programme at…

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Katja Barendse
Scientific researcher
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Katja Barendse

Scientific researcher

Katja Barendse works as a public design researcher in the Resilience Management & Governance team. She analyzes obstacles to sustainable development caused by deeply rooted paradigms, often resulting in so-called…

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Nicolien van Aalderen MSc
Scientific researcher
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Nicolien van Aalderen MSc

Scientific researcher

Nicolien van Aalderen has been working as a Public Design researcher in the Resilience Management and Governance team since 2019. She focuses on issues related to the social context of…

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Stijn Brouwer PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Stijn Brouwer PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Stijn Brouwer is a senior researcher at KWR Water Research Institute, where he does socio-scientific research in water governance and resilience issues. Having done his doctoral work on operational management,…

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News

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The exposome: a new paradigm for the water sector?

26 September 2023 — It is hoped that exploratory research looking at the role of water in the exposome will provide an…

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Citizen science with impact is done TOGETHER – according to this new manual

24 September 2021 — Since 2016, both within and outside of its Joint Research Programme with the water utilities, KWR has built…

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Water Sector

Acquired habits and new solutions

14 January 2020 — At the end of 2019, researchers in the Behavioural Knowledge project, part of the Water Quality Impulse, invited…

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The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities

29 August 2019 — Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities.…

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Transparent communication to maintain and boost customer confidence

11 June 2019 — Drinking water customers have great confidence in the safety of Dutch drinking water and the drinking water companies…

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Creating social platforms for citizen engagement

31 January 2019 — The European project POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) consortium held a meeting, hosted by…

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Conference on Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management

03 December 2018 — Just one month after three-quarters of Venice was flooded by exceptional high tide – at its peak the…

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Brabant Water customers measure tap water hardness themselves

05 October 2017 — At the beginning of this week almost 100 ‘temporary water researchers’ gathered together in Oss to launch the…

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Looking for citizen scientists for Amsterdam water research

30 June 2017 — What does the water in the canal smell of today? Is the Sloterplas lake water really so clean…

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New citizen science research launched

24 May 2017 — On Monday, during a festive launch and information evening at the Limburg Maasbracht, a new citizen science research…

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Water Sector

Unique citizen science project concludes: Amsterdam’s tap water is fresh

28 October 2016 — On Tuesday evening, 26 October, Amsterdam citizen scientists, KWR professional researchers and numerous other interested people gathered in…

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Subjects

Society

Citizen science and public participation

Increased citizen engagement is confronting the water sector with steadily growing demands. A connection needs…

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Citizen Science

The customer as tourist

Drought monitoring: youngsters join in

Water Conservation challenge

Water-quality crisis

Behavioural influence in practice

Behavioural knowledge: dealing differently with water

Behavioural sciences and data

The customer perspective toolkit

The hardness of water

Tap water awareness

Risk perception

Customer perspectives

The Clean Water Experiment

Citizen Science and Hardness

Citizen Science and Lime

Citizen Science and Lead

Water field pilot: The Freshness of Water

The exposome: a new paradigm for the water sector?

Citizen science with impact is done TOGETHER – according to this new manual

Acquired habits and new solutions

The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities

Transparent communication to maintain and boost customer confidence

Creating social platforms for citizen engagement

Conference on Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management

Brabant Water customers measure tap water hardness themselves

Looking for citizen scientists for Amsterdam water research

New citizen science research launched

Unique citizen science project concludes: Amsterdam’s tap water is fresh

Citizen science and public participation