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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Assuring WWTP effluent for greenhouse horticultural sector

The provision of irrigation water for the greenhouse horticultural sector is under increasing pressure, in part as a consequence of climate change. Alternatives are therefore being sought. Moreover,…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Climate adaptation in practice (KLIMAP)

In the four-year KLIMAP project, a consortium of 24 organisations is looking at which measures can contribute, and what joint process will be needed, to adapt Dutch sandy areas to climate change.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Prediction of freshwater supplies in the Netherlands

In this project we intend to use hydroinformatics methods – notably machine learning and deep learning – to predict available freshwater supplies, particularly during periods of serious drought.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Urban Photosynthesis; three functions on a single roof

Urban Photosynthesis involves research in the urban environment on an integrated solution, which closes as many water loops as possible at the building level, combined with the generation…

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Health
Biological activity
Circular Rain

With Circular Rain we are investigating an innovative storage, purification and use of rainwater. By buffering and simultaneously purifying harvested rainwater, a variety of useful applications can be envisaged. Rainwater harvesting is becoming increasingly important. This is…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The importance of good water supply and water management

Over the last few years the south-west of the Netherlands, and thus also the Rusthoeve Experimental Farm, have experienced periods of heavy rainfall and dry periods. This was…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Calculation of drinking water utilities’ CO2 footprint

Drinking water utilities currently have a clearly defined utility function: to produce and supply safe and reliable drinking water at a cost acceptable to society. Part of this…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Drought in the Pleistocene uplands of Southern, Central and Eastern Netherlands

The summer of 2018 was particularly dry in the Netherlands, which led to water supply problems for agriculture and nature in the Pleistocene uplands. This project focuses on…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Combined effects of climate change and nitrogen deposition

Nature areas in the Netherlands are under pressure from a combination of nitrogen deposition and climate change. More knowledge about the influence of high nitrogen deposition on nature…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Peak Matching offers view of nitrogen deposition and evaporation

Information about nitrogen and evaporation is essential for the sustainable management of groundwater resources and nature in the dunes. In this research project, a method is being tested…

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Health
Biological activity
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, measures available to actually keep the water temperature below this…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 water utilities and water managers are concerned, ‘replace’ 1976 as…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
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 underground distribution system. The distribution system consists of trunk mains,…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 was created on the basis of existing knowledge. Thanks to the contributions of numerous…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Development of WaterVision Nature

WaterVision Nature (WWN) is a tool that calculates the effects of climate change and water management on terrestrial vegetation in nature areas. Policy-makers and area managers can now take better account of the consequences for nature of…

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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
Future perspectives on peat polders

Our project ‘Making the Polder Futureproof’ maps out sustainable supported solutions for making the peat polder futureproof. To this end, the first phase of the project explores definitions of the issues, visions…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 know where drinking water ‘hotspots’ occur in the network, and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
WaterVision Agriculture

WaterVision Agriculture: instrumentarium to quantify the effects of water management and climate on agricultural production. WaterVision Agriculture is a method to determine the impact on agricultural production of changes in hydrological conditions. These changes can be the…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Heat transfer to drinking water mains

The warming of the soil around a drinking water main can make the temperature of the water in the main rise above 25 °C, which means that the water no longer satisfies…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
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 associated risk for the drinking water sector. This was a…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 organisation of urban and rural areas. This knowledge was developed…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
BINGO

To anticipate the impact of climate change appropriately, the water sector needs better, downscaled climate predictions. Only with regional-level information can the sector develop risk management strategies. Objectives BINGO’s objective is to reduce the uncertainty of climate…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
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 in the Meuse. This can structurally change the river’s water…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
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). According to this vision, the tertiary network will be installed…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 become more frequent and long-lasting. Peaks in water consumption will…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
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 fertility and acidity. A reliable assessment of how the vegetation…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
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 water cycle. In the first instance, these ambitions target the drinking-water part of the water cycle, but,…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
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 the atmosphere for their water. Over the past few years,…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 in USTORE, covering the last five years, shows that the number of pipe fractures…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
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 does have a strong impact. If ground temperatures increase because…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
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 will significantly increase in the years ahead. Because of protracted…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
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 were made for water quality under the impact of climate…

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Christie Stuut-Klaucke MSc
Communications consultant
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Christie Stuut-Klaucke MSc

Communications consultant

Christie Stuut is an experienced marketing and communications consultant. Her expertise lies in the field of positioning, strategic communication and the further development of company vision to (online) communication. Within...

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Stefania Munaretto PhD
Scientific researcher
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Stefania Munaretto PhD

Scientific researcher

Stefania works as researcher within the Innovation and Valorisation team. Her work has an applied focus and revolves around two lines of research: knowledge valorisation, and policy and governance. The...

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Sharon Clevers MSc
Scientific researcher
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Sharon Clevers MSc

Scientific researcher

Sharon Clevers works as a hydrologist on the Ecohydrology team. In 2016, she completed her Master’s in hydrology and integrated water management at Wageningen University. She graduated following geohydrological research...

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Bram Hillebrand MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Bram Hillebrand MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

Bram Hillebrand is a scientific researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. After earning a Master’s in geophysics, he worked for four years on a PhD at Utrecht University in the...

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News

Blog

Machine learning predictions outside our comfort zone

30 August 2021 — Machine learning (ML) has given us a new tool to better predict hydrological events and their impact on…

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Open day turns the spotlight on subirrigation

13 July 2021 — All eyes were on a test array for ‘underground irrigation’ at the Rusthoeve Test Farm in Zeeland on…

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Blog

1st IAHR Online Forum – looking at the future of water

06 July 2021 — IAHR has organized an Online Forum, which is a week-long even intended to bring together the continually evolving…

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News

Following research about climate-adaptive sandy soils on the KLIMAP website

07 June 2021 — A range of measures and changes in use patterns will be needed to cope with the effects of…

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News

Insight into the current drought situation

04 June 2021 — Since May, a Drought Portal has been available that provides an overview of the current drought situation in…

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Nextgen is exploring an augmented reality app to help engage citizens on water reuse

23 March 2021 — The water industry is exploring Augmented Reality (AR) as one of the technologies to accelerate circular solutions implementation.…

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NWO funding for research on water in the circular economy: AquaConnect and ReCoVR

23 March 2021 — KWR will participate in two basic research programmes in the field of water and resource reuse. The two…

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Building NextGen wastewater treatment systems

15 March 2021 — The four-year NextGen project brings together a partnership of 30 organisations to demonstration solutions for water in the…

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News

Making raised sandy soil areas climate-robust: the work goes on

05 March 2021 — Over the last four years the Lumbricus programme has involved the conduct of practice-oriented research, but also the…

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Lumbricus Closing Symposium: How can we make raised sandy soils climate-robust?

15 February 2021 — On 3 March the four-year (2016-2020) Lumbricus programme will hold its governance closing symposium. As one of the…

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Blog

Identifying a shared vocabulary and relevant stakeholders are essential in developing a circular approach

11 February 2021 — Circular economy developments often focus on technology. To be successful, we need to define a common vocabulary and…

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‘Deploying scientific base for climate and clean water’

05 February 2021 — Late last year Milou Dingemans and Ruud Bartholomeus were appointed as the new Chief Science Officers (CSOs) at…

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To unlock a Circular Economy in 2021, we need trust

19 January 2021 — Climate change has such a tremendous impact on the water sector that it is in our interest to…

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Four water technology projects honoured within PPP call for Agriculture, Water and Food

23 November 2020 — De PPP (Public-Private Partnership) call for Agriculture, Water and Food has resulted in four projects in which TKI…

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Blog

Developments in climate scenarios – how relevant are they to KWR?

20 November 2020 — KWR does a lot of work in the field of climate adaptation – which technological developments help us…

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News

ERC Synergy Grant for ‘Smart Water Futures’

05 November 2020 — To ensure a high-quality and reliable supply of drinking water in the face of urban growth, KWR-CEO Dragan…

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Cooling artificial grass with subsurface water storage

31 July 2020 — As one of the implementors of the CitySports project, KWR is helping address urban problems associated with climate…

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Determining buffer capacities of surface water utilities

17 October 2019 — The surface water utilities in the Netherlands dispose of buffer capacities for their drinking water provision, which guarantee…

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News

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…

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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…

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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 Technology…

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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…

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Column

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…

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News

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…

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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: terrestrial…

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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…

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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.…

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Column

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…

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‘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.…

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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…

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Blog

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…

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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), a…

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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.…

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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…

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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,…

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Darling Solutions

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

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News

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…

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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,…

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News

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 of…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Water Sector

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…

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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 the European…

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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,…

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Blog

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…

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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…

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News

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…

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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…

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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…

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