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Joint Research Programme - Thematic research - sources and environment

Projects

Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Improving the reliability and practicality of an AI-based tool for data validation and correction

Water companies are increasingly using sensor data for advanced process monitoring and control for key variables. They are therefore increasingly reliant on high-quality data. In this project, the…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Water availability and drought over long term

The availability of sufficient freshwater, for all users and functions, is also an increasingly big challenge in the Netherlands and Flanders. A solution is being sought in self-provision at the regional and…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Iron removal for the removal of organic microcontamination

Iron hydroxides are produced at various places during the production of drinking water. That results in the formation and breakdown of reactive oxygen compounds. There are indications that…

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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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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Leaching of the geochemical buffer capacity in the subsurface

The geochemical buffer capacity of the subsurface assists in breaking down pollutants before they reach drinking water abstraction zones. But this involves the generation of reaction products that…

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Achieving optimal balance between water demand and water availability

03 April 2024 — On 5 March 2024, the Symposium on Water Availability and Drought Over Long Term was held. Recommendations were…

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HOD Update: opportunities and challenges for drinking water

08 July 2022 — On Thursday, 30 June, KWR organised ‘HOD Update’ for the first time with our partner Wateropleidingen: a networking…

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Joint effort to address climate changes

21 September 2021 — Climate change confronts the drinking water sector with a range of urgent questions. The consequences for drinking water…

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New BTO Water Matters Podcast

21 June 2021 — The Dutch water utilities, the Flemish De Watergroep and the branch association Vewin, together with KWR, carry out…

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