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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
Digital twin as experience accelerator

In which situations can a digital twin of the distribution process play a valuable role in the training of new staff? This is the central question in the project entitled: ‘On the…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Lead from brass components – phase III

This project examines the Dutch drinking water sector’s sampling protocol to control lead concentrations at the tap. With a tightening of the lead standard, the performance of this protocol needs to be…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Solar panels on water reservoirs

Drinking water reservoirs have a large water surface. The installation of floating solar panels on reservoirs can be an effective strategy to generate energy. However, the question is, if and what impacts do solar panels have on…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Power-to-X Province of Utrecht

The energy system of the Netherlands must become clean and future-proof, but also remain reliable and affordable. Local production of sustainable solar or wind energy will play an important part in this effort. In order to accelerate…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
WarmteStad Groningen: digital twin

WarmteStad Groningen is expanding the heating network in its city. The company is thus addressing the challenge of implementing sustainability in a rapid and cost-effective manner. To achieve this, WarmteStad is combining…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
The effect of water quality on leaching in pipes containing cement

In order to limit the leaching of asbestos cement and the cement contained in pipes, the Dutch Drinking Water Act includes the Saturation Index (SI), a measure of…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Making Aquarellus applicable

Brown water accounts for a significant proportion of reports about water quality that Dutch drinking water companies receive from customers. To tackle the phenomenon, it is important to have an understanding of the movement and accumulation of…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
User-friendly shell improves applicability of PROBE-dunes

Currently the PROBE model offers a user-friendly method to conduct ecohydrological calculations in the ‘inlands’. With this project, a new version is being made within the same accessible shell…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Resilience of distribution systems under crisis scenarios

This exploratory research project is producing an inventory of the possible physical and cyber threats (crisis scenarios) that present a potential danger to the proper functioning of drinking…

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Health
Biological activity
Modelling regrowth in the distribution network

Regrowth in the distribution network is a complex phenomenon. Measures to manage regrowth in the distribution network have hitherto been based on a trial-and-error approach. We need a model-based description of the…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
AquaPriori

Studies into the effectiveness of water treatment techniques for priority substances involve high costs and are closely related to very specific conditions: treatment technique type, water type, substances present, and process conditions, such as residential times (distribution)…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Iron and manganese removal in above-ground sand filters and subsurface: processes understood

In groundwater treatment, it is often essential that the iron and manganese removal run well. Even if the techniques involved have been in use for decades, a lot…

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Experts

Jasper Immink
Scientific researcher
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Jasper Immink

Scientific researcher

Jasper Immink is researcher in the Water Treatment and Resource Recovery-team, and he specializes in physical chemistry, modelling, and data science. He often works on projects where he interprets the…

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jasper.immink@kwrwater.nl

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Amitosh Dash PhD
Scientific researcher
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Amitosh Dash PhD

Scientific researcher

Amitosh Dash is a researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. He is utilizing in-house modeling tools to predict water quality in distribution networks. His research shall assist water companies in…

030-6069696

amitosh.dash@kwrwater.nl

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Renske Hoondert PhD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Renske Hoondert PhD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Renske Hoondert works as a researcher and project manager in the Chemical Water Quality and Health group. She studied Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, after which in 2020 she…

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renske.hoondert@kwrwater.nl

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Daniël Bakker PhD
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Daniël Bakker PhD

Scientific researcher Project manager

Daniël Bakker works as a researcher Energy and Water in the team Energy and Circular Systems. He investigates the opportunities and challenges of the interaction between the energy transition and…

030-6069544

daniel.bakker@kwrwater.nl

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Gilian Schout PhD
Scientific researcher
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Gilian Schout PhD

Scientific researcher

Gilian Schout strives in his research in the Hydrogeology team to find sustainable solutions in geohydrochemically demanding projects. He is experienced in environmental geochemistry, which includes the use of isotope…

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gilian.schout@kwrwater.nl

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Henk Krajenbrink PhD MSc
Scientific researcher
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Henk Krajenbrink PhD MSc

Scientific researcher

Henk Krajenbrink is a researcher in the Ecohydrology team. After graduating from Wageningen University with an MSc in Hydrology and Water Quality, Henk worked for various Dutch consultancies in the…

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Tessa Pronk
Scientific researcher
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Tessa Pronk

Scientific researcher

Tessa Pronk is a scientific researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. She has a broad interest in complex systems and, over the last few years, has worked…

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tessa.pronk@kwrwater.nl

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Bram Hillebrand MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Bram Hillebrand MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

Bram Hillebrand is a scientific researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. After earning a Master's in geophysics, he worked for four years on a PhD at Utrecht University in the…

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bram.hillebrand@kwrwater.nl

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Andreas Moerman MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager
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Andreas Moerman MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager

Andreas Moerman a project manager and researcher in the Energy and Circular Systems team. Within the heat transition effort, Andreas works on developments in the areas of Aquathermal Energy/TED (Thermal…

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Bernard Raterman MSc
GIS specialist
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Bernard Raterman MSc

GIS specialist

Bernard Raterman holds an MSc degree in geology and over 30 years of professional work experience. He has particular expertise in the field of geographical data processing, spatial analysis and…

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Bernard.Raterman@kwrwater.nl

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Peter van Thienen PhD
Principal scientist
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Peter van Thienen PhD

Principal scientist

Peter van Thienen is principal scientist in the Hydroinformatics team. From his background as a quantitative scientist, Peter, together with a number of colleagues, deals with drinking water systems from…

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peter.van.thienen@kwrwater.nl

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Ina Vertommen MSc
Manager Scientific researcher
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Ina Vertommen MSc

Manager Scientific researcher

Ina Vertommen is the team leader of Hydroinformatics at KWR. In this role, she is responsible for the content and profile of the team. The team's goal is to strengthen…

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ina.vertommen@kwrwater.nl

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Bas Wols PhD MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Bas Wols PhD MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Bas Wols works as a scientific researcher on the Water Treatment team. He models water treatment processes, such as UV/H2O2 oxidation, membrane filtration, sand filtration, softening and aeration. He uses…

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Bas.Wols@kwrwater.nl

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News

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Is there more than just data?

07 June 2023 — The focus in Hydroinformatics (HI) soon tends to be exclusively on data. But do we think enough about…

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Frequently used software SIMDEUM now even more accessible

13 September 2022 — The SIMDEUM software can generate drinking water demand patterns down to the level of individual taps and per…

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Blog

Exposome: showing how climate change impacts global health

10 August 2022 — A hackathon is a great way to challenge yourself, explore new research avenues and meet fellow researchers.

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Water Futures project connects five European countries

11 February 2022 — Water Futures project connects five European countries to design smarter urban water systems linking hydroinformatics to economics. A…

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ERC Synergy Grant for ‘Smart Water Futures’

05 November 2020 — To ensure a high-quality and reliable supply of drinking water in the face of urban growth, KWR-CEO Dragan…

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Power-to-X in Nieuwegein a further step closer

11 August 2020 — Storage and conversion are becoming increasingly important for a robust and reliable energy system of the future. These…

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Water sector can use hydroinformatics to take uncertainties into account in decision-making

09 July 2020 — The third knowledge exchange meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform on 25 June focused on uncertainty and uncertainty propagation.…

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Column

Parameter selection for water infrastructure optimization

07 May 2020 — Water and wastewater networks are one of the major infrastructure assets providing essential service to the society. The…

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Blog

The second day of the CCWI conference

04 September 2019 — CCWI (Computing and Control in the Water Industry) has always been an important conference for KWR and in…

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Peter van Thienen new Chief Information Officer at KWR

21 May 2019 — Peter van Thienen is KWR’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Van Thienen is currently finalising KWR’s new hydroinformatics…

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Principal Scientist and ecohydrologist Flip Witte leaves KWR

15 May 2019 — For the last thirteen and a half years, Flip Witte has integrated the scientific disciplines of hydrology, soil…

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Oasen forecasts peaks in water demand with data-driven algorithm from KWR

01 May 2019 — This spring the Oasen water utility began using a new, data-driven algorithm which, on the basis of population…

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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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Workshop makes numerical optimisation more accessible for water companies

27 June 2018 — More and more attention is being directed at the optimisation of drinking water distribution systems. But the complexity…

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Software tool simulates removal of micropollutants from surface water

12 June 2017 — A new demo-software application simulates the efficiency with which two common treatment processes (reverse osmosis and activated carbon…

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Water Sector

More sustainable cooling water systems thanks to softening of makeup water

23 December 2016 — Industry uses open recirculating cooling water systems on a large scale for the dissipation of low-grade, excess heat…

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