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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Reduction of pressure on groundwater through reuse of water from dairy plants in agriculture

Groundwater in the Netherlands is under pressure, both in terms of quantity and quality. Groundwater is used in several activities, including drinking water production, agriculture and industry. In…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Connecting the water cycle and the water system for a better balance of water demand and supply

Sufficient freshwater, for all users and functions. This is also a growing challenge in the Netherlands and Flanders. A solution is being sought in self-provision at the regional…

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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
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Water reuse and the freshwater provision

We are confronted more and more with increasing drought damage in agriculture and nature. There is growing pressure on our supply of water for high-quality uses, such as drinking water production. The…

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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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AQUARIUS

Water is essential for all forms of life on earth and, therefore, ensuring high water quality is of paramount importance. The supply of sufficient and sufficiently clean fresh water is under pressure worldwide, meaning that water purification…

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Health
Biological activity
Area-focused national-regional collaboration to tackle nutrients

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) formulates objectives concerning good water quality. These include an approach to the nutrient problem in the Meuse region. This project researches and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

Increasing water demand, climate change and rising relative sea-levels all contribute to salinisation in coastal areas, leading to shortages of freshwater for drinking water, agriculture, industry, nature and (urban) water management. This…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
TRAMP

The nanoplastics, or microplastics, that result from plastic pollution that ends up in the sea are harmful to marine life. Nanoplastics are also probably present in freshwater, though we don’t have a clear understanding of this. In…

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Experts

Janine de Wit MSc
Scientific researcher
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Janine de Wit MSc

Scientific researcher

Janine de Wit is a researcher on the Ecohydrology team. She mainly researches climate-robust freshwater supply in rural areas. In doing so, she investigates the subsurface's first 2 to 3…

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janine.de.wit@kwrwater.nl

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Sija Stofberg PhD
Scientific researcher
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Sija Stofberg PhD

Scientific researcher

Sija Stofberg is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. She works on projects in the field of groundwater, ecohydrology and water system analysis. Examples include research on sustainable freshwater supply…

030-6069569

sija.stofberg@kwrwater.nl

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Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc
Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist
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Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc

Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist

Ruud Bartholomeus works as Chief Science Officer of KWR and Principal Scientist of the Ecohydrology team on a robust freshwater supply in rural areas. He specialises in hydrological and physiological…

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ruud.bartholomeus@kwrwater.nl

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News

Blog

Controlled drainage with subirrigation as a water solution for agriculture

20 March 2024 — Controlled drainage with subirrigation has the potential to provide support for agriculture in a good way. Whether it…

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Helping growers to improve their own freshwater situation

11 April 2022 — DrainStore deserves a place among the other freshwater projects in Zeeland. The report with the results of the…

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FRESHMAN researches use of brackish groundwater as new drinking water source

01 February 2022 — After two years of preparatory and construction work, on 31 January 2022 the pumps at the Dunea pilot…

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Managing drought calls for structural measures

16 December 2021 — The Water Authorities and the provinces commissioned knowledge institutions, including KWR, to research drought in the high sandy…

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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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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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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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W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

17 July 2020 — Last Tuesday, 14 July, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, paid a working visit to…

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How can water reuse contribute to a more robust freshwater system?

02 April 2020 — Researchers at KWR have quantified and clarified the potential contribution of water reuse to the freshwater system by…

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Collaborating on balancing water demand and supply

06 February 2020 — Disposing of enough freshwater: for all users and uses. This is also becoming an increasingly big challenge in…

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Is it good to further purify your drinking water at home?

18 July 2019 — Reports appear fairly regularly in the media suggesting that drinking water is not clean and that it’s better…

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Large-scale freshwater provision in low-lying areas of the Netherlands through smart use of the subsurface

22 May 2018 — Water authorities, drinking water companies, knowledge institutes, consultant Arcadis, the Province of South Holland and the greenhouse horticultural…

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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…

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‘Subsurface storage’ wins H2O award for best specialised article

23 April 2018 — The specialised article, ‘Waterhergebruik en –berging met aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) op tuinbouwlocatie Nieuw-Prinsenland’ (‘Water reuse and…

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Sugar beet reuse water used to grow tomatoes

23 April 2018 — On 19th April, Erik van Merrienboer, Province of North Brabant Executive for Spatial Planning and Finance, officially opened…

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Closing the water cycle by reusing treated wastewater

01 February 2018 — Matching the agricultural freshwater supply and demand, by using industrial and domestic treated wastewater for irrigation purposes is…

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COASTAR: saline at bay, fresh on hand

13 July 2017 — In the COASTAR (COastal Aquifer STorage and Recovery) project that recently got underway, KWR, together with Deltares and…

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Better wells for water abstraction and geothermal energy

26 June 2017 — A workshop, with the participation of 18 companies and knowledge organisations, examined the main impediments to the installation…

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Water reuse and subsurface storage: a logical combination

13 June 2017 — In Dinteloord (North Brabant) the Tuinbouwontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Horticultural Development Company) (TOM) has realised a high-quality, sustainable freshwater provision system…

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KWR contributes to third Freshwater Knowledge Day

09 November 2016 — The Delta Program Freshwater Plan includes initiatives and measures aimed at making the freshwater provision in the Netherlands…

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Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture

04 July 2016 — The conference ‘Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture’ (www.ag-groundwater.org) was held in San Francisco from 28-30 June 2016. Due…

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More and more interest in KWR’s Freshmaker

27 August 2015 — In 2013, together with ZLTO and Meeuwse Goes BV, KWR developed the Freshmaker technique, a method for storing…

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