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Projects

Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Stand-alone local treatment for remote areas

It is difficult to supply drinking water from the central system in some parts of the Netherlands. Available alternatives for producing drinking water locally through stand-alone treatment plants have therefore been studied…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Stand-alone decentralised drinking water provision in outlying areas

In remote areas it is sometimes too costly or technically too complicated to connect homes to the central drinking water distribution system. Within this project an evaluation framework…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
Radical new sources of drinking water

The drinking water provision in the Netherlands makes use of fresh groundwater and fresh surface water as its principal sources. After the water’s intake or abstraction, it is used to produce drinking…

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Experts

Frank Oesterholt MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Frank Oesterholt MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Frank Oesterholt is a senior researcher and project manager in the Energy & Circular Systems team. His specialities are process water treatment, water reuse and water loop closure. For example,…

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Frank.Oesterholt@kwrwater.nl

06-21507897

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Tessa van den Brand PhD MSc
Scientific researcher Quality coordinator
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Tessa van den Brand PhD MSc

Scientific researcher Quality coordinator

Tessa van den Brand has worked as a scientific researcher at KWR since 2010 and is now one of the first members of the new Energy and Circular Systems team.…

030-6069629

tessa.van.den.brand@kwrwater.nl

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News

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KWR tests water treatment technologies for WHO

20 July 2015 — Since the end of 2013, KWR has functioned as a test lab for the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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