Climate - KWR

Quality of drinking water sources under growing pressure

12 September 2019 — A survey study by KWR on the quality of drinking water sources in the Netherlands shows that these...

Drinking water biological stability in relation to temperature

The law establishes that drinking water temperature must be under 25°C. However, there aren’t any, or hardly any,...

Making better predictions of peak water demand

11 July 2019 — The summer of 2018 was an extremely dry one and 2019 is on course to follow suit. A...

Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

04 June 2019 — Since the beginning of April, Kees Roest has been program director at the Institute for Sustainable Process...

Principal Scientist and ecohydrologist Flip Witte leaves KWR

15 May 2019 — For the last thirteen and a half years, Flip Witte has integrated the scientific disciplines of hydrology, soil...

Biodiversity and water inextricably linked

08 May 2019 — Of the estimated eight million species on Earth, fully one million are threatened with extinction in the decades...

Oasen forecasts peaks in water demand with data-driven algorithm from KWR

01 May 2019 — This spring the Oasen water utility began using a new, data-driven algorithm which, on the basis of population...

Exploring the impact of drought on the drinking water provision

The year 2018 will enter the records as an extremely dry year and, perhaps, as far as the...

Willem Koerselman Award for Ruud Bartholomeus

02 April 2019 — Ruud Bartholomeus has won the 2018 Willem Koerselman Award for the article “A plant’s perspective of extremes:...

KWR and CWTS join forces in research on social impact

25 January 2019 — KWR and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University are going to collaborate in...

Climate-proof drinking water, now and in the future

Drinking water in the Netherlands is treated to high quality standards and then delivered to customers through the...

Further development of Water Vision Nature

The Water Vision Nature (WWN) tool is being developed in phases. In the first phase, a user-friendly shell...

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.

Development of WaterVision Nature

WaterVision Nature (WWN) is a tool that calculates the effects of climate change and water management on terrestrial...

WaterVision Nature

WaterVision Nature (WWN) is a freely-available tool to calculate the impact of climate change and water management on...

Water in the City: rain after sunshine!

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

‘Power to X’ project brings residential districts that run on sunshine and rain a step closer

24 July 2018 — A residential district can use solar power to meet enough of its residents’ energy, heating and mobility needs.

Future perspectives on peat polders

Our project ‘Making the Polder Futureproof’ maps out sustainable supported solutions for making the peat polder futureproof. To...

Data from smart water meters used to predict hotspots in distribution network

To ensure fresh and healthy drinking water in a future of climate change and urbanisation, it’s important to...

WaterVision Agriculture

WaterVision Agriculture: instrumentarium to quantify the effects of water management and climate on agricultural production. WaterVision Agriculture is...

Data from smart water meters used to predict hotspots in distribution network

02 July 2018 — To ensure fresh and healthy drinking water in a future of climate change and urbanisation, it’s important to...

First congress on adaptation to heat stress

02 July 2018 — The first heat stress congress in The Netherlands took place on June 25th 2018 in Den Bosch. With...

Heat transfer to drinking water mains

The warming of the soil around a drinking water main can make the temperature of the water in...

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),...

Code of Practice helps businesses monitor their own carbon neutrality

19 December 2017 — Calculating carbon neutrality or the CO₂ footprint is an excellent tool for industry when formulating CO₂ reduction targets.

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...

Heated activity in the subsurface

31 October 2017 — Over the last few years we have carried out many projects under the climate change, water quality and...

KWR partner in Consortium on Climate Change and Adaptation

31 August 2017 — On 31 August in Utrecht, seven knowledge organisations – besides KWR, they are Utrecht University, University of Twente,...

Darling Solutions

07 July 2017 — As a member of its Advisory Committee, I paid a visit to UNU-FLORES. This is the institute...

Water Indicators show impact of water management and climate change on agriculture and nature

29 June 2017 — With the Nature Water Indicator and the Agriculture Water Indicator one can obtain more detail and user-friendly predictions...

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,...

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...

1st International Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events Conference

13 April 2017 — Last Friday, I attended the first Pan-European Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events (WSSP) conference,...

An integrated analysis of the watercycle in the context of climate change

06 March 2017 — Researchers from across Europe met at the Veluwe research site in the Netherlands on 1-2 February to evaluate...

Doctoral research into flood governance responsibilities

08 February 2017 — On 10 February 2017, KWR researcher Emmy Bergsma was granted her doctorate by the University of Amsterdam. Now...

Nature4Life: National knowledge agenda for research into biodiversity, ecology and evolution

06 February 2017 — On 1 February, State Secretary Sander Dekker was handed the first copy of the national ‘Nature4Life Biodiversity Knowledge...

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...

Seoul International Water Conference 2016

27 October 2016 — Organizers The Seoul Water Institute sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, the Korea Water and Wastewater Works Association,...

Presenting QMRA at Iranian Conference on Environmental Health and Sustainable Development

24 October 2016 — Iran is facing many challenges in the field of environmental health, including air pollution, water and food contamination...

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...

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...

Developments in water quality at surface water intake points for drinking water supply

Future developments in water quality at surface water intake points for drinking water supply constitute the key climate-change...

Applicability of German climate research to the Dutch situation – phase 1

There is a lot of high-value knowledge available in Germany on climate change, water management, and the spatial...

Ecohydrology

KWR’s conducts research into the impact, among others, of climate change, nutrients, water management and site management on...

BINGO

To anticipate the impact of climate change appropriately, the water sector needs better, downscaled climate predictions. Only with...

Consequences of intake of back-up Lek water on drinking water quality and dune ecology

As a result of climate change, low river discharge levels are occurring more frequently and for longer periods...

Material properties required for shallowly buried pipes

Brabant Water has developed the concept the Tertiaire Net van de Toekomst (TNT) (Tertiary Network of the Future).

Future water use and peak factors under climate change

According the prognoses of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), weather extremes, such as heat and drought, will...

Incorporation of soil nutrients and acidity into PROBE

The vegetation composition in freshwater natural ecosystems can be explained on the basis of the soil moisture, nutrient...

Exploration of climate-neutrality in the watercycle at the tactical and strategic level

Practically all water companies have ambitions and objectives concerning a climate-neutral watercycle. In the first instance, these ambitions...

PROBE 3: an innovative model for vegetation development, groundwater recharge and nitrate leaching in a changing climate

Climate change can be expected to have big consequences for groundwater-independent vegetations, precisely because they rely entirely on...

Physical vulnerability of mains to climate change

Climate change can lead to a higher probability of failure in drinking water mains. Analysis of failure data...

Future temperature in the distribution network under the impact of urbanisation and climate change

Water temperature at the pumping station has limited impact on the temperature at the tap, but groundwater temperature...

Ground passage in the adaptation of surface-water water companies due to population aging and climate change

According to predictions based on anticipated population aging and climate change, the concentrations of pharmaceuticals in surface water...

Improving water quality prognosis at surface water intake points for drinking water supply

In an earlier project, ‘Developments in water quality at surface water intake points for drinking water supply’, prognoses...

Global Challenges We Face and the Need for International Collaboration

31 March 2016 — Over the past few decades, the water industry has undergone drastic change. This change, being experienced in many...

European PREPARED project bundles knowledge on urban climate adaptation

27 August 2015 — Climate-proof measures for drinking water and sanitation systems contribute to a sustainable urban water sector. This is one...