Innovation

Water research opportunities in COVID year 2020

18 December 2020 — The global COVID pandemic posed enormous challenges for all sectors of society in 2020. The national and international...

AquaSPICE

KWR recently received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 programme for the research project AquaSPICE to support...

10 November: World Science Day

10 November 2020 — Today is World Science Day: a day to reflect on the role of science...

Explorations by KWR and the drinking water sector in innovative water technology

Water constitutes one of the economic top sectors designated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

Circular Rain

With Circular Rain we are investigating an innovative storage, purification and use of rainwater. By buffering and simultaneously...

Robotics in the water industry

19 February 2020 — The first 2020 knowledge-sharing meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform was organised on 5 February, and dedicated to the...

Electrochemical treatment processes

Electrochemical treatment processes present various advantages compared to conventional treatment processes. By gaining experience with a single, promising...

DMA Fingerprinting – Fase II

The objective of this project is to investigate how the use of transients measurement (pressure waves) with spectral...

Agent-based models for water demand – an exploration

The design of a future-proof drinking water distribution network requires a vision of the evolution of the demand...

Visit Gulf States to the Netherlands aimed at tackling water problems

21 November 2019 — The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the (Dutch) Regional Business Development...

Innovate building installations, but also assess the impact on the whole system

31 October 2019 — Building installations – drinking water installations and building sewer systems – need to be innovated, because water, energy...

Circular Water System Co-Creation in Brainport Smart District

Brainport Smart District (BSD) is an especially innovative district with about 1,500 homes and a business park of...

Joint Research Programme Incubator Function

Together with the water companies, KWR has defined various objectives for the Joint Research Programme, including the ‘Incubator’ function. The...

Sensors & big data in hydrology

12 June 2019 — During this years’ Spring Symposium in Amersfoort, the Dutch Hydrological Society (NHV) gathered around the question ‘sensors and...

Transparent communication to maintain and boost customer confidence

11 June 2019 — Drinking water customers have great confidence in the safety of Dutch drinking water and the drinking water companies...

SALutions and COASTAR presented at International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge

22 May 2019 — During the triennial International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR) held in Madrid, KWR and Arcadis presented results...

Development of tuneable laser to detect oil in water

16 April 2019 — At a Technical Meeting in Katschberg (Austria), discussions took place on the progress of the European AQUARIUS project,...

The importance of knowledge integration in tackling water challenges

15 April 2019 — The big challenges in the field of water call for transdisciplinary research, which integrates the input from several...

COASTAR goes Chile

20 December 2018 — Certain regions in Chile are characterized as dry areas, partly because Chile currently takes too much groundwater in...

Joep van den Broeke

Joep van den Broeke is a senior researcher and project manager in the Innovation and Valorisation team. Drawing...

Science meets Practice in Delft

03 October 2018 — On 12 September TU Delft was once again the venue for the (eighteenth) meeting of the Industry Water...

Risk perception

On the basis of insights into customers’ perceptions, needs and experiences, communications guidelines are being developed with regard...

Organising the Veghel experimental plot

In this project, we are creating a scientific basis for the organisation of water company Brabant Water’s future...

KWR with ReCirc Singapore present at the Singapore International Water Week

19 July 2018 — The Dutch water sector was present with about 150 persons at the Singapore International Water Week, the World...

VolkerWessels and KWR launch Nexus building project

07 June 2018 — KWR and the VolkerWessels companies Aveco de Bondt, VolkerWessels iCity and VolkerWessels Vastgoed have signed a declaration of...

Wim van Vierssen advocates human dimensioning of innovation

31 May 2018 — Wim van Vierssen is leaving his chair at TU Delft. On Tuesday 29 May, he gave his farewell...

Continuous Biofilm Monitor ready for use

16 March 2018 — This week KWR and Milispec launched the Continuous Biofilm Monitor (CBM) at the Aqua Nederland Vakbeurs. The CBM...

Collaboration on resource recovery solutions for circular economy

20 December 2017 — On 15 December, Jaya Ratnam, Ambassador of Singapore, and Henk Snoeken, Deputy Director of International Affairs of the...

VibroCav tool offers prospect of more effective sludge disintegration

04 December 2017 — Sludge processing accounts for one quarter of the operational costs in a wastewater treatment plant. Waterboards have long...

19th annual CEFIC-LRI workshop

27 November 2017 — Every year the European Chemical Industry Council organizes the CEFIC-LRI workshop. This year, I visited the 19th edition...

Evaluation of completed TKI Water Technology projects

09 October 2017 — What have the TKI Water Technology projects achieved so far? What impression do the participants have about...

Water Knowledge Action Programme

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

Assessing resilience at the city level

22 May 2017 — Resilient solutions to urban water challenges are becoming increasingly important due long-term and uncertain trends of climate change,...

The Blue Route: water as a pathway to innovation and sustainable growth

17 May 2017 — ‘The Blue Route’ was launched today during a special event on board the SS Rotterdam. Based on water-related...

First Knowledge Workplace of the Water Knowledge Action Programme

14 April 2017 — On 12 April 2017, the Observant in Amersfoort was filled with practice innovators, researchers and decision-makers committed to...

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...

Ecosystem services benefit from water sector innovations

27 January 2017 — Ecosystem services are currently a focus of intense interest. An ecosystem service is a ‘service’ that the ecosystem...

Unique Power-to-Protein pilot begins at Enschede WWTP

17 January 2017 — The TKI Water Technology Power-to-Protein project involves the fixation of ammonium and carbon dioxide in the...

The importance of sustainable networks

16 January 2017 — An analysis of water research in Europe shows that the international network has grown strongly, both in dimension...

BLUESCITIES Final Conference

BlueSCities is a H2020 project that aims to develop the methodology for a coordinated approach to the integration...

BluesCities training course

BlueSCities is a H2020 project that aims to develop the methodology for a coordinated approach to the integration...

DESSIN

Water scarcity and water quality present a big challenge worldwide. DESSIN (Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the...

Gerard van den Berg PhD

Gerard has a PhD in geochemistry. Over the past 15 years at KWR he has developed into an...

EIP (European Innovation Partnership) Water

The EIP Water is a European partnership aimed at accelerating innovations that address global societal challenges for the...

DESSIN: How can we make sustainable use of the ecosystem to solve water problems?

18 March 2016 — The ecosystem can offer solutions to many of the ‘water’ problems that confront us, such as water scarcity...

TKI Water Technology and engineering consultancies discuss market potential of innovations

15 January 2016 — How can we make sure that as many of the innovations as possible produced by ...

KWR, Vitens and Haitjema develop new drilling technique

17 December 2015 — Soil drilling company Haitjema, water company Vitens and KWR have together, within TKI Water Technology, developed a drilling...

Arcadis and KWR take first step towards Allied Waters

13 November 2015 — In November 2015, Arcadis and KWR signed a Memorandum of Understanding which launched their collaboration in the field...

Former PWN director, Martien den Blanken, is first KWR Honorary Fellow

31 October 2015 — At the end of October 2015, Former PWN director Martien den Blanken became the first person to be...

European Technology Platform for Water (WssTP) growths and strengthens position

30 June 2015 — Over the past few years, WssTP has developed into the platform for European collaboration in the field of...

Watershare partners CTM and KWR explore extended collaboration

26 May 2015 — On Wednesday, 20 May 2015, Deputy Director, Miquel Rovira, and Richard Elelman of the Spanish research institute, Fundació...

Water Tap Sprinkler wins 2015 Fire Protection Innovation Award

20 April 2015 — In April 2015, the ‘Water Tap Sprinkler’ (Waterleidingsprinkler) won the 2015 Fire Protection Award. Following a short introduction...