Europe - KWR

Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

25 June 2021 — According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy aims to design waste and pollution management with new...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Water Mining

Securing enough and safe water is a crucial challenge for water management today. This situation calls for innovative...

ULTIMATE uses real-world, large scale industrial demonstrations to build evidence-based symbiosis applications

07 January 2021 — A total of 27 project partners have come together under the ULTIMATE project (indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a...

Water research opportunities in COVID year 2020

18 December 2020 — The global COVID pandemic posed enormous challenges for all sectors of society in 2020. The national and international...

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...

Turning Wastewater into a Resource

15 June 2020 — A team of European researchers and engineers initiated the ULTIMATE project to turn wastewater into a resource. This...

Rinske Potjewijd MSc

Rinske Potjewijd is an experienced marketing communications consultant, with a strong vision and external focus. She graduated as...

ULTIMATE

KWR coordinates the EC funded ULTIMATE project, working closely with 27 project partners (research institutes, utilities and SMEs).

Quantitative assessment of water security in sight

03 February 2020 — The workshop Quantitative Assessment of Water Security took place at KWR on 29 January. The meeting with twenty...

EUSEME: Europe-wide Sewage analysis to Monitor Emerging drug problems

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is now an established approach in monitoring the consumption of a selection of illicit drugs.

Monitoring emerging drug problems in Europe

04 December 2019 — The partners of the EUSEME project came together on 19 and 20 November for the kick-off meetings. Researchers...

Stefania Munaretto PhD

Stefania works as researcher within the Innovation and Valorisation team. Her work has an applied focus and revolves...

An ANSWER to the risks of antibiotics (resistance) with water reuse

16 July 2019 — Water reuse is an important weapon in the fight against water scarcity, but the purification and reuse of...

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...

Development of tuneable laser to detect oil in water

16 April 2019 — At a Technical Meeting in Katschberg (Austria), discussions took place on the progress of the European AQUARIUS project,...

Stakeholder engagement in the NextGen CoP in Athens

01 March 2019 — The first and exciting meeting of the NextGen Community of Practice (CoP) was held on 21 February in...

Creating social platforms for citizen engagement

31 January 2019 — The European project POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) consortium held a meeting, hosted by...

Joep van den Broeke

Joep van den Broeke is a senior researcher and project manager in the Innovation and Valorisation team. Drawing...

HEATSTORE

The HEATSTORE project is an European project aimed at making technologies for the subsurface seasonal storage of sustainable...

Subsurface thermal storage also helps heat the Netherlands sustainably in the winter

04 October 2018 — This week sees the start of the HEATSTORE project: a 16-million-euro European project aimed at making technologies for...

NextGen kick-off: demonstrating solutions for water in the circular economy

20 September 2018 — Thirty water utilities, industries, specialised SMEs, applied research institutes, technology platforms, and city and regional authorities from all...

NextGen

NextGen will demonstrate innovative technological, business and governance solutions for water in the circular economy in ten high-profile,...

STOP-IT project for protection of water infrastructures gains momentum

18 July 2018 — A year after the start of STOP-IT, the project that deals with the protection of water infrastructures against...

The next generation of managing our most important resource: water

16 May 2018 — As appetite for the world’s most important resource continues to grow – from water use in industrial processes...

Water and sanitation, the Dutch Way

27 November 2017 — In the coming years, Bosnia Herzegovina will make important steps towards EU candidacy. With the help of funds...

Protecting water infrastructure against physical threats and cyberattacks

16 June 2017 — On 7 and 8 June, approximately 60 stakeholders gathered in Oslo for the kick-off meeting of the STOP-IT...

STOP-IT

Water infrastructures are essential for society, human welfare and health, but they can be endangered by physical threats...

Urban Water Atlas for Europe

01 May 2017 — Last week the European Commission published the Urban Water Atlas for Europe, a complete panorama...

AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the...

BLUESCITIES Final Conference

BlueSCities is a H2020 project that aims to develop the methodology for a coordinated approach to the integration...

1 November DWSI meeting ‘Quo Vadis, Europe?’ with top economist Bas Jacobs

13 October 2016 — The Dutch water sector is confronted with a continuously changing context. Some of the changes demand flexibility if...

Martin Bloemendal attended the European Geothermal conference

26 September 2016 — From September 19-22 I attended the European Geothermal conference, a once in every 2-3 year event which was...

Watershare at IWA Brisbane 2016

15 September 2016 — In 2012 KWR launched Watershare at the IWA Congress & Exhibition in Busan, South Korea. In 2014,...

Watershare Community Emerging Substances launched

11 July 2016 — Watershare has launched its first Watershare Community of Practice, which is dedicated to Emerging Substances, at the Singapore...

Workshop on Groundwater Monitor in Flanders

30 May 2016 — Hosted by VITO in Antwerp, Jos von Asmuth (KWR) organised a second workshop on the Groundwater Monitor tool...

Innovation & Valorisation

KWR initiates and coordinates research and innovation in the water sector. We do this within national and international...

SCREENCAP

The essence of the innovative concept of Screencap is the recovery of solids from raw...

Tim van der Mast

As communications advisor, Tim van der Mast is responsible for KWR’s online communications. KWR’s corporate website but also...

Gerard van den Berg PhD

Gerard has a PhD in geochemistry. Over the past 15 years at KWR he has developed into an...

Water Europe

Water Europe is a European technology platform aimed at overcoming the fragmentation of the European water sector. A...

Aqua Research Collaboration (ARC)

ARC is a European collaboration of public knowledge parties which brings different water sector players together in a...

European research

KWR’s participation in Horizon 2020 and other European research projects underlines the importance that we, as an applied...

EIP (European Innovation Partnership) Water

The EIP Water is a European partnership aimed at accelerating innovations that address global societal challenges for the...

European TAPES project concludes in Brussels

30 September 2015 — On 24 September 2015, over 50 participants attended the closing conference of the Interreg programme’s Transnational Action Program...

European POWER research project starts

15 September 2015 — In mid-2015, the European Commission selected POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) as one of...

DEMEAU conclusion: bioassays add great value in determining water quality

10 September 2015 — The three-year DEMEAU project was concluded in September 2015. KWR led the consortium, comprising 17 members from 5...

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...

European Technology Platform for Water (WssTP) growths and strengthens position

30 June 2015 — Over the past few years, WssTP has developed into the platform for European collaboration in the field of...

KWR participates in the review of the Drinking Water Directive

01 June 2015 — In collaboration with Ecorys and WUR/Alterra, KWR organised a stakeholder event in Brussels on Tuesday, 26 May 2015.

Watershare partners CTM and KWR explore extended collaboration

26 May 2015 — On Wednesday, 20 May 2015, Deputy Director, Miquel Rovira, and Richard Elelman of the Spanish research institute, Fundació...

TRUST project final congress

20 May 2015 — The results of the European TRUST (Transitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow) project were presented at...

io Solutions of Turkey becomes Watershare member

19 March 2015 — In 2015, io Environmental Solutions R&D Cl of Istanbul became a Silver Member of the Watershare community. On...

Aa and Maas Water Board, BWA and KWR sign partnership agreement on finescreen technology

03 March 2015 — On 3 March 2015, the Aa and Maas Water Board, technology company BWA and KWR signed an agreement...