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Water Quality Knowledge Impulse

Over the past four years, work in the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse has focused on learning more about the quality of groundwater and surface water, and the factors that affect that quality. The aim of the Water…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Nutrients: which agricultural measures make sense?

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. Agriculture plays a major part in the nutrient loading in our waters. In this project we are studying the effects of measures…

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Health
Biological activity
Area-focused national-regional collaboration to tackle nutrients

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) formulates objectives concerning good water quality. These include an approach to the nutrient problem in the Meuse region. This project researches and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Power-to-Protein: pilot (phase 2)

The supply of sufficient food, energy and water present huge challenges worldwide – among the causes are global population growth and the impact of climate change on crops. There is no obvious universal solution. Rather, what will…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Incorporation of soil nutrients and acidity into PROBE

The vegetation composition in freshwater natural ecosystems can be explained on the basis of the soil moisture, nutrient fertility and acidity. A reliable assessment of how the vegetation…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
PROBE 3: an innovative model for vegetation development, groundwater recharge and nitrate leaching in a changing climate

Climate change can be expected to have big consequences for groundwater-independent vegetations, precisely because they rely entirely on the atmosphere for their water. Over the past few years,…

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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
Circular water provision for horticulture: Water in the greenhouse

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
Circular water provision in horticulture: Water from the greenhouse Water treatment and reuse

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
Circular water provision for horticulture: Operate

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 the water needs to…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 2)

The objective of this project is the development of a concept to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in greenhouse horticulture. In light of the fact that discharge standards…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Zero liquid discharge for greenhouse horticulture (phase 1)

The objective of this TKI project is the development of a concept to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in greenhouse horticulture. In light of the fact that discharge…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
On-site sensoring & monitoring

Determining nutrient concentrations with electronic finger prints and an algorithm based on an artificial neural network. Technology Within TKI Water Technology’s Smart Water Systems theme, a method has been developed which processes…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Power-to-Protein: desk study (phase 1)

The supply of sufficient food, energy and water present huge challenges worldwide. There is no obvious universal solution. Rather, what will be needed are local, situation-oriented tailored solutions, based in part on…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Exploring the potential of the qPCR technique in biological wastewater treatment

Technology Within today’s wastewater treatment practice most attention is focused on achieving extensive and stable biological nutrient removal in the activated sludge process, including a stable biological phosphorus…

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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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Edu Dorland PhD
Manager Senior scientific researcher
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Edu Dorland PhD

Manager Senior scientific researcher

Edu Dorland has since 2016 been leader of the Ecohydrology team, heading a diverse group of ecologists and hydrologists. As a project manager since 2012, Edu has also worked on…

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edu.dorland@kwrwater.nl

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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.…

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Water Sector

Treatment sludge offers opportunities for the reuse or recycling of micronutrients

08 June 2022 — Zuiveringsslib biedt in het agro-voedsel-afvalsysteem de beste mogelijkheden om hergebruik of recycling van micronutriënten te verhogen. Dit staat…

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Acceptance of water and nutrient reuse higher than expected

02 November 2021 — Reuse of water and nutrients for drinking water and food production appears to be better accepted by the…

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Blog

Symposium on Valuable Water

19 October 2020 — Friday October 16th STOWA organized a symposium on “Valuable Water”. The main topic was the “Water factory” at…

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News

Water Quality Knowledge Impulse: room for acceleration

30 October 2018 — The participants in the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse are the national government, provinces, Water Authorities, water utilities, knowledge…

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Symposium ‘Natural Vinegar’

22 March 2018 — Tuesday May 20 the Symposium ‘Natural Vinegar: (im)possibilities for weed control’ took place. Four speakers highlighted the following…

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Pharmaceuticals in wastewater conference

23 January 2018 — In the Meander Medical Center Amersfoort STOWA organized a conference about the presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. The…

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Nutrient Platform members’ meeting at KWR on 7 December 2017

18 December 2017 — The Nutrient Platform members’ meeting is held three times per year at one of the 35 members’ premises.…

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Kees Roest speaks at Fosfaatspagaat Symposium

22 November 2017 — On Sunday, 19 November the Fosfaatspagaat Symposium was held in the Metaal Kathedraal in Utrecht. The event was…

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Knowledge institutes join forces for clean and healthy water

16 November 2016 — Alterra, Deltares, KWR and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) are going to strengthen…

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