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Infiltration

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
New applications of subsurface water storage in practice

Subsurface water storage and supply-building offer multiple opportunities for the development of robust water systems and their responsible exploitation. Pilots can contribute to demonstrating the application range and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Consequences of intake of back-up Lek water on drinking water quality and dune ecology

As a result of climate change, low river discharge levels are occurring more frequently and for longer periods in the Meuse. This can structurally change the river’s water…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Ground passage in the adaptation of surface-water water companies due to population aging and climate change

According to predictions based on anticipated population aging and climate change, the concentrations of pharmaceuticals in surface water will significantly increase in the years ahead. Because of protracted…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Circular water provision in horticulture: Water to the greenhouse – Freshwater provision and well technology

Water supply is of crucial importance for greenhouse horticulture. An adequate supply of fresh (irrigation) water has to be available – during dry periods as well – and…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
NOMixed

In 2014, PWN designed, built and put into operation a new water treatment process (Andijk III), which makes use of SIX® [an innovative anion exchange (AIX) process] and CeraMac® (an innovative ceramic ultrafiltration membrane process). The removal…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

The successful realisation of the greenhouse horticulture area of Nieuw Prinsenland (Dinteloord) requires that the supply of irrigation water be made sustainable. There is insufficient rainwater to meet the needs of the greenhouse horticulturalists, and there are…

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Experts

Jolijn van Engelenburg PhD
Management Joint Water Sector Research Programme / DPWE Project manager
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Jolijn van Engelenburg PhD

Management Joint Water Sector Research Programme / DPWE Project manager

Jolijn van Engelenburg is Programme Manager within the Joint Research Programme of KWR and the Dutch and Flemish water utilities, and of DPWE, the joint research programme for the dune…

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jolijn.van.engelenburg@kwrwater.nl

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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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Optimisation of water wells improves the efficiency of recharge and energy storage

29 January 2020 — KWR researcher Jan van Lopik successfully defended his doctorate dissertation entitled: ‘Design of infiltration and abstraction well systems…

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Effect of ATES systems on the spreading of contaminants

08 April 2015 — Old soil and groundwater contamination is present in many city centres. The installation of aquifer thermal energy storage…

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Subjects

Sustainability

Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is not a given. Globally, the water sector is…

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Our expertises

Geohydrology

Infiltration

New applications of subsurface water storage in practice

Consequences of intake of back-up Lek water on drinking water quality and dune ecology

Ground passage in the adaptation of surface-water water companies due to population aging and climate change

Circular water provision in horticulture: Water to the greenhouse – Freshwater provision and well technology

NOMixed

Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

W orking visit to Zeeland by Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen

Optimisation of water wells improves the efficiency of recharge and energy storage

Effect of ATES systems on the spreading of contaminants

Sustainable use of freshwater resources