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Safe innovation and the water sector
TUBES as a controlled test environment for low-threshold pilot projects

In this project, we are investigating the possibilities and limitations of distributed-optical-fibre detection techniques in a controlled test environment. This projectis being organised in a broad alliance of…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Water-Futures

How should the world achieve high-quality water services in the future while facing severe climate, economic and population pressures under deep uncertainty? Water-Futures, a 10M Euros European Research Council (ERC) funded project (ERC Synergy Grant), aims to…

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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
ARSINOE

Resilience to climate change ARSINOE, a large four-year European Commission (EC) funded project (budget 15M Euros), aims to build an innovative ecosystem for climate change adaptation solutions. ARSINOE is funded under the Green Deal EC Calls (2021)…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
IMPETUS

With persisting impacts of climate change on people's health and livelihoods and the environment, the need to build resilience, adaptive capacity and sustainable and environmentally-friendly economic measures become more urgent. IMPETUS, a four-year European Commission-funded project coordinated…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
NEXOGENESIS

The water, energy, food and ecosystem (WEFE) nexus is a complex interrelationship governed by climatic and socio-economic drivers. We need holistic cross-sector considerations and policies to achieve resource use efficiency, leverage synergies and promote cross-sectoral cooperation. NEXOGENESIS,…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
ULTIMATE

KWR coordinates the EC funded ULTIMATE project, working closely with 27 project partners (research institutes, utilities and SMEs). ULTIMATE is a project on water smart industrial symbiosis, and demonstrates, at 9 large scale sites across Europe, enabling…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Fiware4Water

Fiware4Water is a three-year European research and innovation project, coordinated by the French Office International de l’Eau, links the water sector to the smart solution platform ‘FIWARE’ via demonstration projects in the water cycle. FIWARE makes it…

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Society
Citizen science and public participation
NextGen

NextGen will demonstrate innovative technological, business and governance solutions for water in the circular economy in ten high-profile, large-scale, demonstration cases across Europe. We will also develop the necessary approaches, tools and partnerships for transfer and upscaling.…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Wat-Qual

Safe drinking water is paramount for the health and wellbeing of all populations. Unsafe drinking water can contain pathogenic microorganisms and/or chemicals that can make people immediately unwell or can potentially cause serious illness over prolonged exposures.…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
SPECTORS

SPECTORS is a Dutch-German high-tech initiative that unlocks the market potential of civilian drone technology through sensor innovations for remote sensing and remote monitoring. SPECTORS exploits drone market potential The civilian market for the use of drones…

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Noor van Dooren
Scientific researcher
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Noor van Dooren

Scientific researcher

Noor van Dooren is a researcher on Public Design in the Resilience Management and Governance team. She earned her master's degree in Transnational Ecosystem-based Water Management, a double-degree programme at…

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Raül Glotzbach
Scientific researcher
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Raül Glotzbach

Scientific researcher

Raül works as a scientific researcher in the Innovation & Valorisation team. At KWR, he is working on enabling the growth of Watershare as an international knowledge sharing community through…

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Anouk Bouwhuis
CFO/Manager Corporate Services
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Anouk Bouwhuis

CFO/Manager Corporate Services

Anouk Bouwhuis has been CFO of KWR Water Research Institute since January 2021 and is a member of the KWR management team. She heads the Corporate Services group, which includes…

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Rinske Potjewijd MSc
Communications consultant
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Rinske Potjewijd MSc

Communications consultant

Rinske Potjewijd is an experienced marketing communications consultant, with a strong vision and external focus. She graduated as a food technologist from the University of Wageningen. Rinske has 25 years…

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Lisa Andrews MSc
Scientific researcher
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Lisa Andrews MSc

Scientific researcher

Lisa works as a researcher in the Innovation and Valorisation team and is currently a PhD candidate working in the EU Project IMPETUS with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development…

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Joep van den Broeke
Senior scientific researcher Project manager
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Joep van den Broeke

Senior scientific researcher Project manager

Joep van den Broeke is a senior researcher and project manager in the Innovation and Valorisation team. Drawing on his background in technology development, implementation and commercialisation, he contributes to…

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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Julian Muñoz Sierra PhD EngD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Julian Muñoz Sierra is a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment and Resource Recovery team. He studied chemical engineering at the National University of Colombia. He worked as a process…

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Patrick Smeets PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Patrick Smeets PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Patrick Smeets is a Senior Scientific Researcher in microbiological water quality and health, with over 20 years' experience in the drinking water sector. He specialises in quantitative microbiological risk analysis…

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Gerard van den Berg PhD
Manager Project manager International Research Programme
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Gerard van den Berg PhD

Manager Project manager International Research Programme

Gerard has a PhD in geochemistry. Over the past 15 years at KWR he has developed into an experienced project manager and team leader of the Innovation & Valorisation team.…

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Annual Review 2022: people are at the basis of our water research

11 May 2023 — The KWR Annual Review 2022 focuses on the global water challenges. KWR performs at a high scientific level…

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Water certainty in an uncertain future

16 March 2023 — The Water Futures project looks for robust and adaptive water solutions that perform well over many unexpected futures.

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Applying the Nexogenesis Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus governance approach: update from the three field visits.

22 November 2022 — Water, energy, food, and ecosystems (the WEFE nexus) are interconnected and have limited resources. Lack of consideration of…

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Enhancing diverse collaboration and knowledge exchange as part of our water innovation journey

27 September 2022 — KWR and Friends, sustaining and building relationships for a water-wise world

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KWR and municipal government of Guadalajara signed letter of intent

08 September 2022 — The letter of intent aims to promote the investment conditions for the creation of underground services infrastructure for…

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Creating the ULTIMATE Young Professional programme

03 January 2022 — KWR recently initiated a new network has to unite young water professionals across Europe. Called the ULTIMATE Young…

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Water Europe appointed new Vision Leadership Teams

14 December 2021 — KWR is proud to announce that Dragan Savic and Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia have been appointed to the Vision Leadership…

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New HORIZON 2020 project aims to build an ecosystem for innovative climate change adaptation solutions

11 October 2021 — A brand-new Horizon 2020 project entitled Climate Resilient Regions Through Systemic Solutions and Innovations—ARSINOE, kicked off on October…

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Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

25 June 2021 — According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy aims to design waste and pollution management with new…

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Droplet Digital RT-PCR to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater

04 May 2021 — Wastewater monitoring has developed into a valuable and efficient tool to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 in the…

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KWR is part of Watershare, a true community of water experts

19 April 2021 — KWR is one of the 25 members of the international platform Watershare. Over the past year, Watershare has developed…

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Nextgen is exploring an augmented reality app to help engage citizens on water reuse

23 March 2021 — The water industry is exploring Augmented Reality (AR) as one of the technologies to accelerate circular solutions implementation.…

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World Water Day 2021: Valuing Water

22 March 2021 — A team of more than 20 KWR colleagues signed up to join the World Water Run from 16-22…

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Building NextGen wastewater treatment systems

15 March 2021 — The four-year NextGen project brings together a partnership of 30 organisations to demonstration solutions for water in the…

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The Wastewater4COVID project aims to develop a method for early detection of the coronavirus

12 February 2021 — Early in the pandemic, Gertjan Medema demonstrated that genetic traces of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage correlate with COVID-19 disease…

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Identifying a shared vocabulary and relevant stakeholders are essential in developing a circular approach

11 February 2021 — Circular economy developments often focus on technology. To be successful, we need to define a common vocabulary and…

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To unlock a Circular Economy in 2021, we need trust

19 January 2021 — Climate change has such a tremendous impact on the water sector that it is in our interest to…

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Scoping monitoring of coronavirus in wastewater in Peru

12 January 2021 — The current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is a major concern for human health. The spread of this virus needs…

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ULTIMATE uses real-world, large scale industrial demonstrations to build evidence-based symbiosis applications

07 January 2021 — A total of 27 project partners have come together under the ULTIMATE project (indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a…

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Turning Wastewater into a Resource

15 June 2020 — A team of European researchers and engineers initiated the ULTIMATE project to turn wastewater into a resource. This…

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Distribution experts from Europe and the US look behind each other’s scenes

09 December 2019 — Over the last two years, experts and researchers from Europe and the US have had the opportunity to…

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Multiple sources of Genesee County Legionella Outbreak in 2014-2015

04 December 2019 — In 2017 the State of Michigan asked KWR to investigate the epidemic of Legionnaires’ Disease in Genesee County,…

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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…

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Innovative drinking water supply technologies in Argentina

26 September 2019 — On 25 September, the Argentinian Water Supply Company, AySA, the Dutch companies, Royal HaskoningDHV and TRAIDE, and water…

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US committee recommends strong Legionella management measures, comparable to those in the Netherlands

15 August 2019 — Every year, 52,000 to 70,000 Americans are afflicted by Legionnaires’ disease, a pneumonia caused by certain Legionella species.…

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Launch of Fiware4Water: digital solutions for water

28 June 2019 — On 10 June 2019, Waternet and KWR, together with twelve European partners, launched the Fiware4Water project. This three-year…

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Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

04 June 2019 — Since the beginning of April, Kees Roest has been program director at the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology…

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Data-driven, sustainable drinking water provision in Mexico

28 May 2019 — On 20 May, the water utility SAPAZA, the municipality of Zapotlán El Grande and MGB Victoria from Mexico,…

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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…

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Creating social platforms for citizen engagement

31 January 2019 — The European project POWER (Political and sOcial awareness on Water EnviRonmental challenges) consortium held a meeting, hosted by…

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It happened at IWA Tokyo

04 October 2018 — When we look back a few years from now, I’m convinced we will all say that ‘it happened…

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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…

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Analysis of Uzbek groundwater monitoring data powered by Menyanthes

07 August 2018 — The Uzbek O’zgashkliti Institute wanted to apply monitoring of groundwater levels and hydrological analyses to better understand fluctuating…

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Niels Hartog appointed president of IAH-NL

12 July 2018 — The Netherlands chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has a new president. On 25 June, KWR…

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Useful UK-Dutch exchanges in the first 6 months of WatQual

20 June 2018 — Within the WatQual project, researchers from universities visit industry in another country and vice versa to study water…

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Self-Cleaning networks concept presented at annual meeting of American PVC pipe association

21 March 2018 — The PVC pipe association held its annual meeting at Key West, Florida. Mirjam Blokker presented the concept of…

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First WatQual meeting a huge success

05 March 2018 — Researchers from various European countries gathered at the end of February for the kick-off of WatQual. Over two…

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Launch of Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)

13 February 2018 — A new platform to accelerate the circular economy was launched during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in…

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Water and sanitation, the Dutch Way

27 November 2017 — In the coming years, Bosnia Herzegovina will make important steps towards EU candidacy. With the help of funds…

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Three Watershare communities launched

02 November 2017 — On 1 November 2017, three Watershare Communities of Practice (CoPs) were launched in the Netherlands Pavilion at Aquatec…

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Investing in Research: organisational and financial

15 June 2017 — During the course of my career I have enjoyed the privilege of extensive travel. The period I spent…

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Water Sector

Structural collaboration UGhent, KU Leuven and the water sector’s joint research programme

25 April 2017 — Last year the Flemish water company De Watergroep became a member of the joint research programme of the…

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1st International Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events Conference

13 April 2017 — Last Friday, I attended the first Pan-European Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events (WSSP) conference,…

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KWR is part of German-Dutch research project into drones for remote sensing

19 January 2017 — On 1 September 2016, approval was given to the German-Dutch research project SPECTORS (Sensor Products for Enterprises Creating…

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Water Sector

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…

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Strong focus on Forward Osmosis research at the IMSTEC in Adelaide

19 December 2016 — Once every three years the IMSTEC (International Membrane Science and Technology Conference) is organized in Australia. This year…

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Water Sector

Belgian De Watergroep shareholder in KWH

28 November 2016 — This afternoon representatives of De Watergroep and KWH Water B.V., in the presence of the Flemish Prime Minister Geert…

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Watershare Annual Meeting: spotlight on Communities of Practice and Swedish water sector

27 November 2016 — From 10-11 November, Watershare members met in Stockholm for their 2016 annual meeting to discuss the community’s progress…

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Collaboration between water companies and universities important at international CCWI conference

09 November 2016 — The Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI) conference attracted 180 representatives from numerous countries to share…

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Luckily, they all felt ‘blue’

19 October 2016 — Is traveling to the other side of the world already an experience in itself, a long lecture at…

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Water Sector

Join us at ‘Computing and Control for the Water Industry’, from 7 through 9 November in Amsterdam

18 October 2016 — ICT, computer modelling and automation are increasingly important tools in the water sector and water research. The purpose…

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University of Southern Queensland enters Watershare

12 October 2016 — On 12 October 2016, the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has entered Watershare, a consortium of several of…

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Resource recovery: focus on the high value products

12 October 2016 — There are only a few subjects that have two sessions at the IWA World Water Congress here in…

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On Extremes, Resilience and Wisdom…

11 October 2016 — Quite a lot of familiar keywords around IWA’s World Water Congress, particularly on Tuesday’s keynote, discussions and presentations.…

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Watershare launches community on subsurface usage

10 October 2016 — Today Watershare launched its Subsurface Water Solutions Community of Practice at the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition…

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No worries about Brisbane weather

09 October 2016 — GWRC has perfectly planned its 2016 meeting here in Brisbane. The weather is beautiful. But that is not…

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Wim van Vierssen appointed IWA Fellow

25 August 2016 — Wim van Vierssen, CEO of KWR Watercycle Research Institute, has been appointed IWA Fellow by the International Water…

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Water Sector

Key Takeaways from ARREAU Struvite Recovery & Recycling Learning Alliance Workshop

03 July 2016 — The ARREAU Struvite Recovery & Recycling Learning Alliance workshop took place in Amersfoort on the 16th of June…

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Water Sector

Paul Jeffrey appointed visiting professor

23 June 2016 — With the appointment of Prof. Dr. Paul Jeffrey as visiting professor at the Knowledge Management group, KWR has…

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Water Sector

Workshop on Groundwater Monitor in Flanders

30 May 2016 — Hosted by VITO in Antwerp, Jos von Asmuth (KWR) organised a second workshop on the Groundwater Monitor tool…

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Water Sector

New Watershare member, Japan Water Research Center

23 May 2016 — The President of the Japan Water Research Center JWRC, Prof. Dr. Shinichiro Ohgaki, and KWR Director Prof. Dr. Wim van…

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Victoria and KWR discuss redesign of water supply systems

23 May 2016 — Raúl Mejorada and Blanca Larios, top executives of Watershare partner Victoria, visited KWR and water supply company Oasen…

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Water Sector

KWR is looking for Amsterdam residents for drinking water research

25 April 2016 — In the ‘Water Freshness’ field trial citizens will be participating for the first time as researchers in scientific…

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Global Challenges We Face and the Need for International Collaboration

31 March 2016 — Over the past few decades, the water industry has undergone drastic change. This change, being experienced in many…

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Water Sector

Water4India: KWR introduces new sampling and analysis methods in India

29 March 2016 — From 5 to 15 March three KWR analysts were in India to contribute to the EU’s Water4India project,…

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Water Sector

Vietnamese government organisation for water management establishes ties with SUBSOL and KWR

24 February 2016 — KWR leads the European Horizon 2020 SUBSOL project, which focuses on the international (market) introduction of so-called Subsurface…

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New Watershare member: Victoria, Mexico

24 February 2016 — Victoria Director Raúl Mejorada González and KWR CEO Wim van Vierssen have signed the Watershare membership agreement. With its Silver…

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Water Sector

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 TKI Water Technology, part…

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Water Sector

Limited public acceptance is the biggest obstacle to the serious scaling-up of water reuse

11 January 2016 — The European Commissions sees water reuse as an important means of overcoming (future) water shortages. The stimulation of…

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South Africa’s WRC is Watershare’s 15th member

17 November 2015 — In November 2015, the Watershare community welcomed the South African Water Research Commission (WRC) as a Gold Member.…

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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…

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New Watershare member City of Cape Town starts with CFPD

10 November 2015 — In November 2015, KWR welcomed the newest member of the Watershare family, the City of Cape Town (CCT),…

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‘Resource Recovery in the Water cycle’: what does the future look like?

10 November 2015 — On 3 November, the ‘Accelerating Resource Recovery from Wastewater’ workshop was held during the Amsterdam International Water Week…

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European TAPES project concludes in Brussels

30 September 2015 — On 24 September 2015, over 50 participants attended the closing conference of the Interreg programme’s Transnational Action Program…

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Reststoffenunie, Waternet and partners win IWA-KWR Award

31 August 2015 — In 2015, chainpartners Reststoffenunie, Waternet, Ardagh Glass and Desso won the prestigious biennial IWA-KWR Award for Best Practice…

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GWRC members set up new collaboration projects

12 June 2015 — During a two-day workshop on 9 and 10 June 2015 at TZW in Karlsruhe, researchers from KWR and…

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Updated, online database on waterborne pathogens

15 April 2015 — From 12 to 15 April 2015, an international group of 35 scientists working on the Global Water Pathogen…

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Futures studies and response strategies

Futures research improves the resilience of the water sector by supporting anticipatory governance and by…

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TUBES

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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…

International

TUBES as a controlled test environment for low-threshold pilot projects

Water-Futures

ARSINOE

IMPETUS

NEXOGENESIS

ULTIMATE

Fiware4Water

NextGen

Wat-Qual

SPECTORS

Annual Review 2022: people are at the basis of our water research

Water certainty in an uncertain future

Applying the Nexogenesis Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus governance approach: update from the three field visits.

Enhancing diverse collaboration and knowledge exchange as part of our water innovation journey

KWR and municipal government of Guadalajara signed letter of intent

Creating the ULTIMATE Young Professional programme

Water Europe appointed new Vision Leadership Teams

New HORIZON 2020 project aims to build an ecosystem for innovative climate change adaptation solutions

Towards water-smart industrial symbiotic systems

Droplet Digital RT-PCR to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater

KWR is part of Watershare, a true community of water experts

Nextgen is exploring an augmented reality app to help engage citizens on water reuse

World Water Day 2021: Valuing Water

Building NextGen wastewater treatment systems

The Wastewater4COVID project aims to develop a method for early detection of the coronavirus

Identifying a shared vocabulary and relevant stakeholders are essential in developing a circular approach

To unlock a Circular Economy in 2021, we need trust

Scoping monitoring of coronavirus in wastewater in Peru

ULTIMATE uses real-world, large scale industrial demonstrations to build evidence-based symbiosis applications

Turning Wastewater into a Resource

Distribution experts from Europe and the US look behind each other’s scenes

Multiple sources of Genesee County Legionella Outbreak in 2014-2015

Visit Gulf States to the Netherlands aimed at tackling water problems

Innovative drinking water supply technologies in Argentina

US committee recommends strong Legionella management measures, comparable to those in the Netherlands

Launch of Fiware4Water: digital solutions for water

Kees Roest ISPT Program Director

Data-driven, sustainable drinking water provision in Mexico

Stakeholder engagement in the NextGen CoP in Athens

Creating social platforms for citizen engagement

It happened at IWA Tokyo

NextGen kick-off: demonstrating solutions for water in the circular economy

Analysis of Uzbek groundwater monitoring data powered by Menyanthes

Niels Hartog appointed president of IAH-NL

Useful UK-Dutch exchanges in the first 6 months of WatQual

Self-Cleaning networks concept presented at annual meeting of American PVC pipe association

First WatQual meeting a huge success

Launch of Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)

Water and sanitation, the Dutch Way

Three Watershare communities launched

Investing in Research: organisational and financial

Structural collaboration UGhent, KU Leuven and the water sector’s joint research programme

1st International Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events Conference

KWR is part of German-Dutch research project into drones for remote sensing

The importance of sustainable networks

Strong focus on Forward Osmosis research at the IMSTEC in Adelaide

Belgian De Watergroep shareholder in KWH

Watershare Annual Meeting: spotlight on Communities of Practice and Swedish water sector

Collaboration between water companies and universities important at international CCWI conference

Luckily, they all felt ‘blue’

Join us at ‘Computing and Control for the Water Industry’, from 7 through 9 November in Amsterdam

University of Southern Queensland enters Watershare

Resource recovery: focus on the high value products

On Extremes, Resilience and Wisdom…

Watershare launches community on subsurface usage

No worries about Brisbane weather

Wim van Vierssen appointed IWA Fellow

Key Takeaways from ARREAU Struvite Recovery & Recycling Learning Alliance Workshop

Paul Jeffrey appointed visiting professor

Workshop on Groundwater Monitor in Flanders

New Watershare member, Japan Water Research Center

Victoria and KWR discuss redesign of water supply systems

KWR is looking for Amsterdam residents for drinking water research

Global Challenges We Face and the Need for International Collaboration

Water4India: KWR introduces new sampling and analysis methods in India

Vietnamese government organisation for water management establishes ties with SUBSOL and KWR

New Watershare member: Victoria, Mexico

TKI Water Technology and engineering consultancies discuss market potential of innovations

Limited public acceptance is the biggest obstacle to the serious scaling-up of water reuse