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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
VIPNL: Wetland crops on water-rich peat

This project is investigating how wetland agriculture on water-rich peat can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land subsidence, and deliver improvements in water quality and biodiversity. The focus is on…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Solar panels on water reservoirs

Drinking water reservoirs have a large water surface. The installation of floating solar panels on reservoirs can be an effective strategy to generate energy. However, the question is, if and what impacts do solar panels have on…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Water-Futures

How should the world achieve high-quality water services in the future while facing severe climate, economic and population pressures under deep uncertainty? Water-Futures, a 10M Euros European Research Council (ERC) funded project (ERC Synergy Grant), aims to…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
NEXOGENESIS

The water, energy, food and ecosystem (WEFE) nexus is a complex interrelationship governed by climatic and socio-economic drivers. We need holistic cross-sector considerations and policies to achieve resource use efficiency, leverage synergies and promote cross-sectoral cooperation. NEXOGENESIS,…

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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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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
Survival and growth of water lice on organic matter in drinking water distribution networks

Earlier research has indicated that a correlation exists between the presence of water lice and the Aeromonas count in drinking water, and that this bacterium probably partly lives…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
DESSIN

Water scarcity and water quality present a big challenge worldwide. DESSIN (Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector) has a twofold objective. First, to promote the implementation of innovative solutions for water-related issues and, second,…

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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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Experts

Eduard Post
Human Resources consultant
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Eduard Post

Human Resources consultant

Eduard Post is an HR advisor at KWR. He is an HR generalist who enjoys working on themes such as strategic HRM, talent management and the digitalisation of HR. Whereby…

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eduard.post@kwrwater.nl

06-12964958

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Raül Glotzbach
Scientific researcher
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Raül Glotzbach

Scientific researcher

Raül works as a scientific researcher in the Innovation & Valorisation team. At KWR, he is working on enabling the growth of Watershare as an international knowledge sharing community through…

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raul.glotzbach@kwrwater.nl

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Camiel Aggenbach MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Camiel Aggenbach MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Camiel Aggenbach is an ecologist with 30 years of experience in restoring and managing ecosystems and their biodiversity. His expertise is in the rewetting of peatlands and the restoration of…

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camiel.aggenbach@kwrwater.nl

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Edu Dorland PhD
Manager Project manager
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Edu Dorland PhD

Manager Project manager

Edu Dorland has since 2016 been leader of the Ecohydrology team, heading a diverse group of ecologists and hydrologists. As a project manager since 2012, Edu has also worked on…

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edu.dorland@kwrwater.nl

06-46916697

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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

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Test ponds in KWR garden come to life

06 September 2023 — The plants in the test ponds (“mesocosms”) in the KWR garden flourished in the first year. This gives…

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BTO Implementation Awards from the expert jury and public for Nature Recovery from Nitrogen

08 June 2023 — The 2023 BTO Implementation Awards were given to Nature Recovery from Nitrogen, which showed that the effects of…

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Water certainty in an uncertain future

16 March 2023 — The Water Futures project looks for robust and adaptive water solutions that perform well over many unexpected futures.

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Column

Should we reconsider our love for indestructible organic-halogen compounds?

07 January 2020 — PFAS, which stands for Per- and PolyFluoroAlkyl Substances, are currently causing a great deal of commotion. Why have…

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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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Water Sector

Ecosystem services benefit from water sector innovations

27 January 2017 — Ecosystem services are currently a focus of intense interest. An ecosystem service is a ‘service’ that the ecosystem…

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Pim de Voogt named member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks

02 May 2016 — Pim de Voogt was late last week in Luxemburg appointed member of the Scientific Committee for Health, Environmental…

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DESSIN: How can we make sustainable use of the ecosystem to solve water problems?

18 March 2016 — The ecosystem can offer solutions to many of the ‘water’ problems that confront us, such as water scarcity…

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New DNA analysis method helps optimise biological phosphate removal

01 March 2016 — Royal HaskoningDHV and KWR have developed, within the Smart Water Systems theme of TKI Water Technology, a…

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