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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Water-kennis: an immersive media experience

Turn on your tap, shower or flush your toilet, and clean water flows out. But where does this water come from? The availability of enough clean water has become an issue for…

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Looking ahead
Futures studies and response strategies
GRROW: an intergenerational lab for the drinking water sector

What does the future water sector look like? What needs to change and what do we want to maintain? The GRROW lab project wants to answer that question…

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Health
Biological activity
Exploratory Research: Water Quality Footprint

The water sector is today actively working on CO2 emission reduction (and climate neutrality). Up until now, the possibility of including water quality improvement in environmental impact methodologies has however been very…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
GRROW – Generational and Radical Rethinking of the Water Sector

The GRROW project will have a sequel: the GRROW lab! If you want to participate as a participant, register now via this link. or visit the GRROW-lab project…

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Sustainability
Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Aqua ludens

The development of a serious game should provide all stakeholders in the water cycle with a clear understanding of the significance of water, of how the freshwater provision works, and of the impact of choices on water…

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Enabling technologies
Innovative water treatment technologies
Closing the water cycle

To close the water cycle, organic micropollutants have to be removed from effluent. However, today’s WWTPs are not specifically designed to remove those substances, which can encompass a wide range. Where they are, the quality of the…

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Health
Biological activity
Circular Rain

With Circular Rain we are investigating the innovative storage, purification and use of rainwater. By buffering and simultaneously purifying harvested rainwater, a variety of useful applications can be envisaged for the water. Technology EWB has developed an…

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Health
Safe innovation and the water sector
Circular Water 2050

The project ‘Circular Water 2050 – impact and opportunities of the “fully circular in 2050” target for an urban water cycle falls under the WiCE ‘Efficient with Raw Materials’ research area. The project’s aim is to develop…

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Experts

Janine de Wit MSc
Scientific researcher
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Janine de Wit MSc

Scientific researcher

Janine de Wit is a researcher on the Ecohydrology team. She mainly researches climate-robust freshwater supply in rural areas. In doing so, she investigates the subsurface's first 2 to 3…

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Sija Stofberg PhD
Scientific researcher
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Sija Stofberg PhD

Scientific researcher

Sija Stofberg is a researcher in the Geohydrology team. She works on projects in the field of groundwater, ecohydrology and water system analysis. Examples include research on sustainable freshwater supply…

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Kees Roest PhD BSc
Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology
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Kees Roest PhD BSc

Senior scientific researcher Programme coordinator TKI Water technology

Kees Roest has worked at KWR since 2008 and was among the pioneers in KWR's wastewater research. On the Energy and Circular Systems team, he works on sustainable transitions, with…

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Kees.Roest@kwrwater.nl

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Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc
Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist
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Ruud Bartholomeus PhD MSc

Chief Science Officer / Principal scientist

Ruud Bartholomeus works as Chief Science Officer of KWR and Principal Scientist of the Ecohydrology team on a robust freshwater supply in rural areas. He specialises in hydrological and physiological…

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News

Blog

Controlled drainage with subirrigation as a water solution for agriculture

20 March 2024 — Controlled drainage with subirrigation has the potential to provide support for agriculture in a good way. Whether it…

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GRROW lab invites young and experienced water professionals to engage in dialogue

05 March 2024 — The GRROW lab project involves young water professionals in discussions about leading paradigms, connects them with other water…

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The Dutch waterline for Defence starts here

23 October 2023 — How will climate change impact our water system, and how can we deal with it? This was the…

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Soil-crop models are worthwhile to better understand processes

27 September 2023 — The experiences of a summer school about modelling; data of field experiments are required to understand the real-world…

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BTO Festival Day 2023: collective, circular and forty years of BTO

12 June 2023 — The BTO Festival Day 2023 on June 8 was a great success. KWR celebrated the fortieth anniversary of…

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Hydrological experiences as an Early Career at the EGU in Vienna

08 May 2023 — The quote "simple models are incorrect, but useful whereas complex models are correct but useless" was mentioned. Whether…

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EGU 2023 – Inspiration, collaboration and social relation

08 May 2023 — Natural hazards are human-made…[…or at least partly, since natural phenomena turn into disasters only when they exploit the…

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The big picture and the details – impressions from EGU’23

08 May 2023 — Decisions taken in one crisis's heat may have unforeseen long-term consequences. Science should evolve to help society prepare…

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KWR takes Vienna, overview from a first time at EGU

08 May 2023 — I learned that while different climate scenarios lead to very different predictions on the average precipitation (and thus…

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Circular Economy at IWA Copenhagen: experiences and reflections

08 November 2022 — IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition: a mouthful, but what a crazy experience! Full of enthusiasm, and curious…

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AquaSPICE: Implementation of circular water use in the European process industry

07 June 2022 — The first AquaSPICE General Assembly was held on 12 and 13 May 2022, bringing together 29 partners from…

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News

Financing earmarked from National Growth Fund to secure Dutch water availability

14 April 2022 — The Blue Motor consortium wants to invest heavily for ten years in the availability of water in the…

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Solving society’s water issues on the basis of a dynamic alliance

03 March 2022 — A strategic partnership agreement between KWR and TU Delft lays the foundation for continuity in joint knowledge development…

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Handles to determine the occurrence of microplastics in the urban water cycle

04 August 2021 — The doctoral thesis, ‘Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Urban Water Cycle’, by Svenja Mintenig helps the water sector…

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The water sector as a reliable supplier of commodities recovered from the water cycle

20 July 2021 — Water is probably the most circular resource on earth. So it’s hardly surprising that the water sector has…

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Preserve and enhance the value of water throughout the cycle

28 May 2021 — The Water in the Circular Economy (WiCE) research programme revolves around the preservation of value in the water…

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Serious game tackles challenges for regional water provision

02 March 2021 — The development of a serious game should provide all stakeholders in the water cycle – including those with…

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Water sector sets course for the circular economy

26 November 2020 — The recently published report ‘Stip op de horizon Circulair Water 2050’ (‘Point on the Circular Water 2050 horizon’)…

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Developing knowledge and measures to make high sandy grounds climate-robust

21 July 2020 — Making the high-elevation sandy grounds in the Netherlands resilient to climate change: over the next four years, the…

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Visit Gulf States to the Netherlands aimed at tackling water problems

21 November 2019 — The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the (Dutch) Regional Business Development…

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Detection, removal and recovery potential of metals from the water cycle

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

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Regional meetings on Asset Management Collaboration

11 March 2016 — Collaboration chiefly means sharing knowledge and trusting each other. Moreover, when it comes to asset management this is…

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‘Resource Recovery in the Water cycle’: 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…

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Former PWN director, Martien den Blanken, is first KWR Honorary Fellow

31 October 2015 — At the end of October 2015, Former PWN director Martien den Blanken became the first person to be…

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DEMEAU conclusion: bioassays add great value in determining water quality

10 September 2015 — The three-year DEMEAU project was concluded in September 2015. KWR led the consortium, comprising 17 members from 5…

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Reststoffenunie, Waternet and partners win IWA-KWR Award

31 August 2015 — In 2015, chainpartners Reststoffenunie, Waternet, Ardagh Glass and Desso won the prestigious biennial IWA-KWR Award for Best Practice…

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KWR researcher Mirjam Blokker is visiting professor at the University of Sheffield

17 March 2015 — Since 1 March 2015, researcher Mirjam Blokker has been visiting professor in the Faculty of Civil and Structural…

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