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Condition forecast for individual mains

The risk of pipe failure is one of the factors taken into account by drinking water utilities when...

Sim City: agent-based water demand model

One of the biggest and most significant uncertainties in the development of network blueprints is the future water...

Smart Water Networks – 2

This project within the Joint Research Programme of KWR and the water utilities concerns the question of how...

Development of DiVerDi software for GeoWater

Drinking water utilities strive to achieve maximum quality in the provision of drinking water to customers. This aspiration...

CALLISTO

Water losses in drinking water distribution systems are a globally recognised problem. Drinking water utilities have a number...

Optimal transition to network blueprints phase II

Within this project KWR is developing a method to automatically determine the transition from current structures to network...

Measures to combat the unwanted heating of water in the pipe network

Legally the water temperature at the tap may not exceed 25°C. The temperature of the water network changes...

Data-driven, sustainable drinking water provision in Mexico

28 May 2019 — On 20 May, the water utility SAPAZA, the municipality of Zapotlán El Grande and MGB Victoria from Mexico,...

As Hong Kong grows, so does demand for better water infrastructure

23 April 2019 — From 8-10 April I visited Hong Kong together with Idsart Dijkstra, Water Systems and Technology manager, and Prof.

KWR demonstrates value added of water knowledge for practice at trade fair

04 April 2019 — KWR presented the value added of water knowledge in water practice at Aqua Nederland Vakbeurs 2019. The event,...

Application future failure frequency prediction method

The prediction of failure frequencies is important in determining pipe replacement volumes and replacement prioritisation. The predictions are...

Contamination Source Toolkit

When contamination incidents occur in the distribution system, as a result of work on the network for example,...

Comsima

Water mains in the Netherlands suffer failures many times every day. These events cause a nuisance in the...

Resilience of distribution systems under crisis scenarios

This exploratory research project is producing an inventory of the possible physical and cyber threats (crisis scenarios) that...

Organising the Veghel experimental plot

In this project, we are creating a scientific basis for the organisation of water company Brabant Water’s future...

Workshop makes numerical optimisation more accessible for water companies

27 June 2018 — More and more attention is being directed at the optimisation of drinking water distribution systems. But the complexity...

Gondwana

Over the last decades growing attention has been directed at the optimisation of drinking water distribution systems. But...

PVC degradation model in Comsima

In the Netherlands PVC is the pipe material that is most used: more than half of the drinking...

Real-time sensor measurements for a better water-quality policy

The current, hydraulic models are infrequently applied to water-quality issues in the distribution network; moreover, they are poorly,...

Heat transfer to drinking water mains

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

Bram Hillebrand MSc

Bram Hillebrand is a scientific researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. After earning a Master’s in geophysics, he...

Drinking water companies improve USTORE through uniform quality code failure registration

19 December 2017 — Last week the joint USTORE operational code was incorporated into the Platform Bedrijfsvoering (Management Platform). This is a...

Uniform Failure Registration Database Workshop

24 October 2017 — Good failure registration is very important in underpinning a water-main replacement policy. Indeed, failure registration is one of...

Smart networks for a sustainable water provision

22 September 2017 — The third Grand Assembly of the four-year EU SmartWater4Europe (SW4EU) project was held in Burgos, Spain. Over the...

SmartWater4Europe

European water utilities face many problems related to their 3,5 million km’s of distribution networks. Large parts of...

New fit-for-purpose decision support tool for pipeline inspection technologies

27 February 2017 — Watershare is proud to announce the launch of a knowledge-based and decision-support toolbox for water and wastewater network...

Collaboration between water companies and universities important at international CCWI conference

09 November 2016 — The Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI) conference attracted 180 representatives from numerous countries to...

New IWA/KWR book describes stress-test for future-robustness of distribution networks

13 October 2016 — KWR collaborates with IWA Publishing to make relevant knowledge about drinking water available worldwide. Claudia Agudelo-Vera and Mirjam...

INTEREST: rules of thumb for costs and returns of sensor networks in drinking water distribution

10 October 2016 — Sensor networks allow us to monitor drinking water more comprehensively and detect contaminants more effectively. However, we need...

Japanese delegation visits KWR for workshop on smart water networks

06 October 2016 — On Wednesday, 5 October, a delegation from Japan visited KWR to attend the workshop on “Smart Metering and...

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...

From mains data to mains knowledge

Decision-making about which mains to replace, and when, is one of the most important issues for asset management...

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,...

Mains Investment Planning

Aging networks confront water companies with the need to take investment allocation decisions to ensure that water distribution...

Andreas Moerman MSc

Peter van Thienen PhD

Peter van Thienen is a senior researcher and Chief Information Officer of KWR. In his CIO role, Peter...

Ina Vertommen MSc

Ina Vertommen is a scientific researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. She works with her colleagues on the...

Ralph Beuken MSc

Ralph Beuken works as a researcher on the Water Infrastructure team. His expertise is in asset management of...

KWR researcher Mirjam Blokker is visiting professor at the University of Sheffield

17 March 2015 — Since 1 March 2015, researcher Mirjam Blokker has been visiting professor in the Faculty of Civil and Structural...