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Projects

Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
The Ultimate Water Plant

The Ultimate Water Plant is a collaborative project involving parties in the water sector who want to demonstrate how, and subject to which conditions, treated sewage can be made available as a supplementary source of drinking water.…

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Health
Biological activity
Reservoir management, algal growth and sun on water

There is a theme-overarching enthusiasm to tackle research questions in relation to new developments in reservoir management. This ranges from investigating the risk analysis of cyanotoxins, to the…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Data validation implementation pilot

Poor data quality is frequently identified as one of the obstacles to the successful exploitation of data mining techniques (e.g., exploratory research into data mining), for example, for analyses, monitoring, process management…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AQUARIUS

Water is essential for all forms of life on earth and, therefore, ensuring high water quality is of paramount importance. The supply of sufficient and sufficiently clean fresh water is under pressure worldwide, meaning that water purification…

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Enabling technologies
Future-proof networks
Data mining for asset management – survey and water sector examples

Data mining (the search for statistical connections in databases) is one step in ‘Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)’. Both have already been embraced by the marketing, medical care,…

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Health
Microbial safety
Smarter measurement

Water quality is often extensively measured within the framework of Analysis of Microbial Safety of Drinking Water (Dutch abbreviation: AMVD) and other research. The concentration distribution of microorganisms is highly variable, both in raw and treated water.…

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Experts

Toon Costermans
Manager QHSE (Quality, Safety, Health & Environment)
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Toon Costermans

Manager QHSE (Quality, Safety, Health & Environment)

In his job as Environment and Permit Coordinator, Toon has various different tasks. The main focus is making sure that the requirements of the environmental permits are always met. Like…

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ETV supports market introduction of new environmental technologies

10 November 2022 — Within the European ETV programme to help the market introduction of innovative environmental technologies, KWR provides services as…

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Looking ahead for groundwater research

10 November 2022 — Groundwater extraction for drinking water production will probably be affected by changes in the chemical quality of groundwater…

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Annemarie van Wezel New CSO at KWR: ‘Our position can never be taken for granted.’

01 May 2018 — For eight years Gertjan Medema held ultimate responsibility for KWR’s scientific publications. On 1 May he is laying…

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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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Drinking water companies improve USTORE through uniform quality code failure registration

19 December 2017 — Last week the joint USTORE operational code was incorporated into the Platform Bedrijfsvoering (Management Platform). This is a…

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Gaining control on data quality step-by-step

22 March 2017 — The European Water Framework Directive guidelines on monitoring state that the use of clear and standard methods and…

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