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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Effects of interventions in the distribution network on the existing microorganisms: DNA techniques offer clarity

Earlier research by Evides Waterbedrijf revealed that the number and composition of microbial populations can change during the distribution process of drinking water. This 2018 research was undertaken…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
DNA Diatom Biosensor

In order to attain and maintain the desired level of ecological quality in European waters, water management authorities need to implement comprehensive monitoring and measurement packages that enable them to comply with the European requirements set by…

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Health
Biological activity
Molecular-biological methods

Traditionally, microbiological analyses are carried out through the cultivation of organisms. Molecular methods in contrast research the genetic material – DNA and RNA – in the water. These methods are faster and provide more information about the…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Role of soil passage in removal of OMPs

During the infiltration of surface water in the dunes and along river banks, natural processes in the soil can effectively remove micropollutants. In surface water infiltration systems, the bottom sludge layer is…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
DNA fingerprinting in surface- and wastewater management

Situations arise in surface- and wastewater management in which it is often important to be able to determine the origin of the water and of the potentially problematic…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Microbial profiling: short-circuit flows around water wells

Leakages from the casings and clay seals of water wells can cause short circuits between the aquifers. This applies in particular to small, unnoticed leakages resulting from the…

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Health
Biological activity
Microbial profiling in dune infiltration

DNA sequencing has made enormous strides over the past few years. The technology has advanced to the point where is should be possible, on the basis of information from the DNA (and…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Monitoring fish migration through eDNA

To bring the ecological quality of European waters up to standard, water management entities have to implement extensive sets of measures. In this way they can satisfy the requirements laid out in…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
DNA Water system Scan & Reference Tool

The identification of aquatic organisms through DNA barcode information has accelerated greatly over the past few years. Worldwide, DNA barcodes of a multiplicity of species have been collected and made available via…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Identifying eDNA to understand aquatic biodiversity

Preserving biodiversity is high on the (political) agenda worldwide. The theme has been given quite high priority at both the European level (EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020) and…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Protecting bathing water by detecting blue-green algae using DNA techniques

Every summer in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, bathing is forbidden or advised against in outdoor bathing locations because of the excessive growth of cyanobacteria. The reason…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Within today’s wastewater treatment practice most attention is focused on achieving extensive and stable biological nutrient removal in the activated sludge process, including a stable biological phosphorus removal…

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Marcelle van der Waals PhD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Marcelle van der Waals PhD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Marcelle van der Waals is a scientific researcher on Microbiological Water Quality and Health. Marcelle did her PhD research on microbiology in the field of biological degradation of contaminants at…

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marcelle.van.der.waals@kwrwater.nl

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Goffe Elsinga BSc
Senior technician
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Goffe Elsinga BSc

Senior technician

Goffe Elsinga has worked as an HBO technician in the microbiology laboratory since October 2012. During this period he has been mainly active in projects involving molecular biological techniques. Among…

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goffe.elsinga@kwrwater.nl

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Michiel Hootsmans PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher Project manager
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Michiel Hootsmans PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher Project manager

Michiel Hootsmans is a senior researcher in aquatic ecology. In this position, he is in charge of the development, broadening and deepening of a new ecological research niche in the…

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Michiel.Hootsmans@kwrwater.nl

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News

Water Sector

DNA fingerprinting: powerful monitoring tool in water management

13 November 2019 — Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a technique that determines the microbial composition of water (streams) on the basis…

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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,…

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BioMon: close collaboration in DNA biomonitoring

01 October 2018 — Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Institute for Environmental Studies in Leiden, Baseclear and KWR are collaborating more and more…

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NL-Fish Population Scan determines species composition of fish populations

14 June 2018 — The presence or absence of fish species provides information about the quality of the water. Within the ‘Monitoring…

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Focus on tools for ecological diagnosis and impact prediction

28 February 2018 — The identification of aquatic organisms using DNA barcode information has accelerated rapidly in recent years. All over the…

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Detecting fish and bacteria through eDNA analysis

20 December 2017 — We can determine fish populations on the basis of DNA traces. DNA techniques also make it possible to…

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Drinking water sector investigating potential risks of antimicrobial resistance

04 December 2017 — Antimicrobial resistance forms a risk for public health. Resistant bacteria and the genes for antimicrobial resistance are also found in…

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Water Sector

Monitoring fish populations, migration and water quality through environmental DNA

02 March 2016 — This spring research gets underway into an innovative manner, through ‘fish DNA’ in the water, of monitoring the…

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Water Sector

Cooperating knowledge institutes: ‘Biomonitoring could be faster, more reliable and cheaper’

12 January 2016 — In March 2015, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and KWR Watercycle Research Institute sealed their agreement to become preferred partners…

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KWR and Naturalis sign cooperation agreement in Biodiversity & Water

16 April 2015 — In early 2015, KWR Water Research Institute and Naturalis Biodiversity Center joined forces as each other’s preferred partners…

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