Freshwater

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Water reuse and the freshwater provision

We are confronted more and more with increasing drought damage in agriculture and nature. There is growing pressure...

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...

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...

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...

‘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’...

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...

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...

AQUARIUS

Water is essential for all forms of life on earth and, therefore, ensuring high water quality is of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sija Stofberg PhD

Sija Stofberg is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. She works on projects in the field of groundwater,...

TRAMP

The nanoplastics, or microplastics, that result from plastic pollution that ends up in the sea are harmful to...

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...

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.

Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc

Ruud Bartholomeus works as Chief Science Officer of KWR and Principal Scientist of the Ecohydrology team on a...

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...