Governance

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...

A global perspective on local water, waste and climate challenges

08 February 2019 — This week I had the honour to provide a global perspective on the local challenges of water, waste...

Developing capacity to overcome water challenges in a rapidly changing world

20 September 2018 — How to address our water challenges? Climate change and urban growth are making this question increasingly important. Despite...

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...

Customer perspectives

It is becoming increasingly clear that one can no longer generalise about drinking water customers. This project reveals...

Water wisdom comes with ups and downs

14 March 2018 — Over the last three months Stef Koop and Kees van Leeuwen have been very busy with a number...

Drought – a global challenge in cities

30 January 2018 — Recently, on 26 January 2018, an article on ‘thirsty cities’ appeared in ‘ het Algemeen Dagblad’ (AD),...

Collective research on Water in the Circular Economy

The collective research programme Water in the Circular Economy (WiCE) involves the joint research of the water companies...

System Design Power-to-X

The Power-to-X concept aims to produce electricity, hydrogen, heat and service water sustainably. By converting electricity into heat...

Governance and knowledge action for the circular watercycle

In this project we research the governance of the circular urban watercycle in four pilots. A knowledge-action method...

KWR partner in Consortium on Climate Change and Adaptation

31 August 2017 — On 31 August in Utrecht, seven knowledge organisations – besides KWR, they are Utrecht University, University of Twente,...

Area planning process systems

Space is scarce in the Netherlands and the responsibilities for the management of public space are often decentralised.

Water Knowledge Action Programme

Managers, researchers and practice innovators are working on water governance in the Water Knowledge Action Programme to realise...

Governance Capacity Analysis to address water challenges

19 June 2017 — How to address our water, waste and climate challenges? Climate change and urban growth are making this question...

Citizen trust: key to successful introduction of water reuse

14 February 2017 — In principle, Europe’s citizens have a positive attitude towards water reuse. But whether they would personally reuse water...

Unique citizen science project concludes: Amsterdam’s tap water is fresh

28 October 2016 — On Tuesday evening, 26 October, Amsterdam citizen scientists, KWR professional researchers and numerous other interested people gathered in...

Future of Cities Forum 2016, Tianjin, China

24 October 2016 — Organizers The World Future Council, UN Habitat and the China Urban Research Center of Beijing Jiaotong University organize...

DEMOWARE: Governance workshops and launch Water Reuse Europe

03 October 2016 — In September KWR organised two workshops on water reuse governance with stakeholders in Sabadell (Spain) and Capitanata (Italy).

Citizen science and public participation

Increased citizen engagement is confronting the water sector with steadily growing demands. A connection needs to be made...