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Korean consortium wins IWA Award for Best Practices on Resource Recovery

08 August 2017 — Partnered with Watershare, the International Water Association’s (IWA) Resource Recovery Cluster has concluded the IWA Award...

DNA fingerprinting in surface- and wastewater management

Situations arise in surface- and wastewater management in which it is important to be able to determine the...

WHO expert meeting: the role of water in spreading antimicrobial resistance

05 July 2017 — On 5 and 6 July, 30 experts from all over the world met at KWR to assist the...

Water reuse and subsurface storage: a logical combination

13 June 2017 — In Dinteloord (North Brabant) the Tuinbouwontwikkelingsmaatschappij (Horticultural Development Company) (TOM) has realised a high-quality, sustainable freshwater provision system...

Detection, removal and recovery potential of metals from the watercycle

08 May 2017 — The focus of water treatment is increasingly shifting to the recovery of raw materials. Drinking water companies, waterboards...

WATCH

Request for services for a waste water analysis report on the stimulant illicit drug markets in the EU.

‘The future of the water economy is circular’

30 March 2017 — ‘There is nothing in the urban watercycle that is negotiable. Water is a matter of quality and safety...

Opening of Power-to-Protein Installation

The Power-to-Protein concept offers the possibility of producing protein suitable for consumption from resources recovered from wastewater. An...

Shale Gas and Water

Before the Netherlands can initiate shale gas extraction, answers must be given to the question of the possible...

Nanotechnology in water applications

NanoNextNL is a consortium directed at research in the field of micro- and nanotechnology. More than one hundred...

REWATCH

Freshwater resources are increasingly under stress conditions and there exists a huge mismatch between available water resources and rising...

AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the...

The connecting role of water in the circular economy

24 February 2017 — As of 21 March 2017, the TKI Water Technology partners will be present at the ...

Workshop on pharmaceuticals

21 February 2017 — Load and concentrations of pharmaceuticals in water are increasing. Therefore, it will become more and more important to...

Citizen trust: key to successful introduction of water reuse

14 February 2017 — In principle, Europe’s citizens have a positive attitude towards water reuse. But whether they would personally reuse water...

Affinity adsorption

The presence of pharmaceuticals and degradation products in surface water represents a threat to ecological water quality and...

ARREAU workshop at WaterLink Symposium

KWR is organising an interactive ARREAU workshop at the annual WaterLink Symposium in Leeuwarden. ARREAU is the EIP...

Metals in the watercycle: insight and opportunities

15 November 2016 — Is it possible to recover (scarce) metals in an economically responsible manner from the watercycle – from drinking...

Presenting QMRA at Iranian Conference on Environmental Health and Sustainable Development

24 October 2016 — Iran is facing many challenges in the field of environmental health, including air pollution, water and food contamination...

City Blueprint at Habitat III conference: host city under the microscope

13 October 2016 — Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, will take place from 17 to...

Sustainability pilot with struvite pellets for lush Schiphol grasslands

08 September 2016 — On 7 September 2016 struvite fertilising pellets were applied to the areas next to Schiphol airport’s runways Schiphol-Rijk...

Paul Jeffrey appointed visiting professor

23 June 2016 — With the appointment of Prof. Dr. Paul Jeffrey as visiting professor at the Knowledge Management group, KWR has...

Drugs of abuse

Latest results announced for the Amsterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven sewer water study In 2015, for the fifth year...

ANSWER

In response to the growing problem of water scarcity, the reuse of treated urban wastewater is considered to...

BlueSCities

Climate change and urbanisation are crucial phenomena for water supply, economic development and health worldwide. Since many cities...

Industry, wastewater & reuse

KWR conducts research into the treatment of wastewater and the reuse of the water, resources and energy it...

Microbial water quality

KWR conducts research into microbial water quality in all types of water systems and its possible impact on...

SCREENCAP

The essence of the innovative Screencap concept is the recovery of suspended solids from raw wastewater on the...

Data mining in suspect screening data; searching for relevant new chemicals in different water types

Data from suspect screening analyses collected over the past few years contain a treasure of information. The data...

Water-Use Info

Both in the design and the operational stage of a drinking water installation or drinking water distribution network...

City Blueprint

Extreme weather events that leave city streets under water in a flash. Or protracted drought that renders a...

Clean Membrane

Growth on membranes is one of the many mechanisms of membrane fouling. This fouling causes operational problems, negative...

Exploration of climate-neutrality in the watercycle at the tactical and strategic level

Practically all water companies have ambitions and objectives concerning a climate-neutral watercycle. In the first instance, these ambitions...

Sustainable watercycle and geothermal energy at Lelystad Airport

At the beginning of 2015 the Airport Decree was ratified for Lelystad Airport, providing official authorisation for the...

Multi-Source, Single-Stage, Full-Stream RO

The objective is a tested Multi-Source, Full-Stream RO concept, with minimal pre- and post-treatment (single stage), which uses...

Loop-Closure Cleantech Playground Amsterdam

The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a testbed for clean, innovative technologies in the heart of the city of...

Design guidelines for sewer systems for domestic wastewater

In the urban context there are two key water discharge streams: the dry-weather stream and the stormwater stream.

Soil mechanics & dynamics

Information about the soil is available from a number of sources. This information is important in the estimation...

On-site sensoring & monitoring

Determining nutrient concentrations with electronic finger prints and an algorithm based on an artificial neural network. Technology Within...

Energy-efficient and sustainable Tergooi hospital

Tergooi is developing a new hospital as part of the redevelopment of the Monnikenberg country estate to the...

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...

Biological sulphate reduction in wastewater treatment

The sludge line accounts for about one-quarter of total wastewater treatment costs. Minimising the volume of excess sludge...

Sustainable airport cities

This TKI project is meant to showcase how different sectors can strengthen each other in the process of...

Effective removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater

03 May 2016 — Wastewater contains more and more pharmaceuticals that are difficult to remove in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This issue...

Resource recovery

There is growing worldwide interest in resource recovery in the watercycle. The transformation of residuals into valuable products...

Watertechnologies for sustainable energy

On the basis of their position in society, water companies, municipalities, waterboards and a growing number of market...

Preparing for climate change

Climate change presents huge challenges to the water sector. The Earth’s temperature is rising, precipitation patterns are more...

World Health Organization (WHO)

KWR is a Collaborating Centre (CC) of the World Health Organization (WHO). We are an interesting partner for...

Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC)

The GWRC is an international research and knowledge sharing network. KWR is one of the 14 leading research...

Watershare

Watershare is an international network that brings together knowledge and expertise in the form of Communities of Practice,...

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is a European programme for research and innovation aimed at strengthening European competitiveness. In consultation with...

GWRC impressed by water sector research in the Netherlands

18 April 2016 — The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to research and innovation in the water sector. That was...

2015 Willem Koerselman Award to Cornelissen and Roest

12 April 2016 — Emile Cornelissen and Kees Roest won the 2015 Willem Koerselman Award for their article ‘Forward osmosis for application in...

KWR places ‘water in the circular city’ centre-stage at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands

31 March 2016 — The circular city was the theme this year of KWR’s stand at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands. The...

KWR places the Circular City centre-stage at the Aqua Trade Fair Netherlands

09 March 2016 — On 15, 16 and 17 March 2016 be sure to visit the main source of inspiration for all...

New DNA analysis method helps optimise biological phosphate removal

01 March 2016 — Royal HaskoningDHV and KWR have developed, within the Smart Water Systems theme of TKI Water Technology, a...

New Power-to-Protein website: all about producing protein from wastewater

02 February 2016 — The Power-to-Protein concept is attracting a great deal of attention. The process involves the highly efficient production of...

KWR, WUR and TUDelft join forces to combat diarrhoea

17 December 2015 — In 2015, KWR, Wageningen University (WUR) and Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) pooled their knowledge to develop a...

‘Boer Bier Water’ wins 2015 ZLTO Initiative Award

11 December 2015 — The farmers and growers in the municipality of Laarbeek, together with brewers Bavaria, have uniquely combined their strengths...

‘Resource Recovery in the Watercycle’: what does the future look like?

10 November 2015 — On 3 November, the ‘Accelerating Resource Recovery from Wastewater’ workshop was held during the Amsterdam International Water Week...

Challenging governance research for Vitens

03 August 2015 — Customer excellence is of paramount importance for Vitens. To this end, KWR explored how Vitens can best attune...

KWR and water companies in the grip of pyrazole discharges for long spell

09 July 2015 — In the summer of 2015, Limburg Water Distribution Company (WML) detected a pollutant in the river Meuse, which...

Best H2O article 2014: pharmaceutical spreading via WWTPs

23 April 2015 — On 23 April 2015, at the Royal Dutch Water Network (KNW) spring conference in Utrecht, Lieke Coppens (KWR;...

Updated, online database on waterborne pathogens

15 April 2015 — From 12 to 15 April 2015, an international group of 35 scientists working on the Global Water Pathogen...

Aa and Maas Water Board, BWA and KWR sign partnership agreement on finescreen technology

03 March 2015 — On 3 March 2015, the Aa and Maas Water Board, technology company BWA and KWR signed an agreement...

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