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Health
Biological activity
Preparation RT-PCR method enterococci

The routine determination of the safety of our drinking water is highly important. In practice this involves the use of a culture method for the intestinal bacteria E. coli and enterococci. This…

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Health
Microbial safety
Validation RT-PCR method enterococci

The routine determination of the safety of our drinking water is highly important. In practice this involves the use of a culture method for the intestinal bacteria E. coli and enterococci. This…

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Enabling technologies
New materials and technologies
SARS-CoV-2 (RNA) in municipal wastewater: hazards and opportunities

This project couples the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in the underground (sewage water) with above-ground testing, with the aim of evaluating the sensitivity, the predictive value for the incidence…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
KWR wastewater surveillance guidance for SARS-CoV-2

As Covid-19 infections are increasing again after the initial lockdowns, it is now critical to set up a surveillance and monitoring system for COVID-19. KWR can assist you…

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Health
Biological activity
Molecular-biological methods

Traditionally, microbiological analyses are carried out through the cultivation of organisms. Molecular methods in contrast research the genetic material – DNA and RNA – in the water. These methods are faster and provide more information about the…

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Health
Biological activity
Oportunistic pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water

Because of the expected climate change, it is probable that in the future the earth’s warming will lead to a rise in the temperature of surface water, water…

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Health
Biological activity
Value of legal and alternative regrowth parameters

The regrowth of microorganisms during the distribution of drinking water can lead to a number of problematic situations. Water companies therefore monitor drinking water quality very closely. Because of possible risks and…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Antibiotic resistance in surface water and water treatment

Over the past few decades the use of antibiotics by humans and for veterinary purposes has grown sharply. Doctors in the Netherlands exercise restraint in prescribing antibiotics, but…

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Enabling technologies
Hydrogenomics
Protecting bathing water by detecting blue-green algae using DNA techniques

Every summer in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, bathing is forbidden or advised against in outdoor bathing locations because of the excessive growth of cyanobacteria. The reason…

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

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 removal…

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Goffe Elsinga BSc
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Goffe Elsinga BSc

Senior technician

Goffe Elsinga has worked as an HBO technician in the microbiology laboratory since October 2012. During this period he has been mainly active in projects involving molecular biological techniques. Among…

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COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance must-reads

28 October 2021 — Since early February 2020 KWR-researchers have been monitoring sewage water at various wastewater treatment plants in The Netherlands…

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KWR involved in global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring effort

21 September 2021 — KWR Water Research Institute is helping develop the Wastewater SARS Public Health Environmental Response, or W-SPHERE, a global…

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Researchers at KWR, Exeter (UK), Greece and Spain, awarded price for their video on ‘Sewers4COVID’

07 June 2021 — Sewers4COVID is a digital observation prototype that can quickly and cost-efficiently detect outbreak hotspots at a national scale. The…

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Sewage surveillance as an early warning system for SARS-CoV-2 detection

11 May 2021 — In recent research, we looked at how local sewage surveillance can provide information about the prevalence of the…

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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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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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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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Pilot project to monitor the circulation of COVID-19 in sewage water collected in the city of Nairobi

06 January 2021 — KWR joined forces with the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) – Directorate of Health Services, International Livestock Research Institute…

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The SARS-Cov-2 sewage water samples of 20 August

25 August 2020 — Since the end of February, KWR has been monitoring concentrations of the genetic material of the coronavirus, so-called…

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Royal Academy of Engineering award Sewers4COVID team

24 August 2020 — Researchers at KWR, in collaboration with scientists from Exeter (UK) Greece and Spain, developed a fresh approach ‘Sewers4COVID’…

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Sewage monitoring as an early warning system for corona

29 May 2020 — The emerging questions of the past weeks are: How does the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage water…

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Coronavirus in sewage falls faster than recorded patient numbers

24 May 2020 — Since early February, KWR’s microbiologists have been studying levels of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in sewage in collaboration with the…

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Q&A COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance live

11 April 2020 — The COVID-19 sewage research team has received a tremendous amount of questions about the research in recent weeks;…

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