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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Flushing-water discharge limitation and directed development in open-loop ATES systems

In 2050, when the Netherlands will no longer be using natural gas, approximately 25 percent of the buildings will have a thermal energy system. Following the installation, and…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Smarter sprinkling using subsurface water storage, combined with iron removal

In the Netherlands groundwater is extracted for applications in the agricultural, industrial and drinking water sectors. At the same time there is an urgent need to render water…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Subsurface iron removal with ATES geothermal energy systems

Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) is being increasingly employed in the Netherlands and elsewhere as a means of saving energy. The groundwater used in these systems often contains…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Healthy soil, healthy water system

The properties of the soil have a major influence on drought sensitivity and leaching into groundwater, for instance, of fertilisers. Both agriculture and the drinking water utilities that abstract groundwater have an…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
AgriAs

Toxic arsenic (compounds) in the soil and water present health risks worldwide for 220 million people. KWR is participating in the European AgriAs project that aims to acquire reliable data about the presence of and exposure to…

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Experts

Camiel Aggenbach MSc
Senior scientific researcher
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Camiel Aggenbach MSc

Senior scientific researcher

Camiel Aggenbach is an ecologist with 30 years of experience in restoring and managing ecosystems and their biodiversity. His expertise is in the rewetting of peatlands and the restoration of…

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camiel.aggenbach@kwrwater.nl

06-22379320

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Jeroen Geurts PhD
Scientific researcher
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Jeroen Geurts PhD

Scientific researcher

Jeroen is an ecology researcher on the Ecohydrology team. He researches the rewetting of peatlands, multifunctional use of buffer zones, paludiculture ('wet agriculture'), soil and water quality, greenhouse gas emissions…

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jeroen.geurts@kwrwater.nl

06-54293522

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News

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Eight key actions in EU Soil Monitoring Act require inclusion of groundwater protection

02 August 2023 — KWR identified eight key actions in the European Soil Strategy that urge the inclusion of groundwater protection. This…

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Workshop DPWE & OBN: Restoration of dune grasslands by reactivation of small scale eaolian dynamics

23 March 2017 — In Dutch coastal dunes dune grasslands are endangered by an elevated atmospheric nitrogen deposition, a decline of grazing…

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Soil analysis

Flushing-water discharge limitation and directed development in open-loop ATES systems

Smarter sprinkling using subsurface water storage, combined with iron removal

Subsurface iron removal with ATES geothermal energy systems

Healthy soil, healthy water system

AgriAs

Eight key actions in EU Soil Monitoring Act require inclusion of groundwater protection

Workshop DPWE & OBN: Restoration of dune grasslands by reactivation of small scale eaolian dynamics