Water infrastructure

Nanostructures on pipe walls to control regrowth

Nano- and microtechnology makes it possible to manipulate material structures at the molecular or atomic level. The macroscopic...

Jan Vreeburg PhD MSc

Jan Vreeburg is Principal Scientist in the Water Infrastructure team. Jan has a long history of research and...

Sim City: agent-based water demand model

One of the biggest and most significant uncertainties in the development of network blueprints is the future water...

Development of DiVerDi software for GeoWater

Drinking water utilities strive to achieve maximum quality in the provision of drinking water to customers. This aspiration...

The second day of the CCWI conference

04 September 2019 — CCWI (Computing and Control in the Water Industry) has always been an important conference for KWR and in...

Making better predictions of peak water demand

11 July 2019 — The summer of 2018 was an extremely dry one and 2019 is on course to follow suit. A...

Forecasting models and scenario development for the drinking water infrastructure

07 May 2019 — Forecasting models and scenario development can help water utilities better manage their current water infrastructure and also better...

KWR demonstrates value added of water knowledge for practice at trade fair

04 April 2019 — KWR presented the value added of water knowledge in water practice at Aqua Nederland Vakbeurs 2019. The event,...

Workshop makes numerical optimisation more accessible for water companies

27 June 2018 — More and more attention is being directed at the optimisation of drinking water distribution systems. But the complexity...

Useful UK-Dutch exchanges in the first 6 months of WatQual

20 June 2018 — Within the WatQual project, researchers from universities visit industry in another country and vice versa to study water...

Gondwana

Over the last decades growing attention has been directed at the optimisation of drinking water distribution systems. But...

Kees van Leeuwen appointed David Parkin Visiting Professor at Bath

23 April 2018 — Kees van Leeuwen, Principal Scientist at KWR and professor of Water Management and Urban Development at Utrecht...

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...

Water and sanitation, the Dutch Way

27 November 2017 — In the coming years, Bosnia Herzegovina will make important steps towards EU candidacy. With the help of funds...

Protecting water infrastructure against physical threats and cyberattacks

16 June 2017 — On 7 and 8 June, approximately 60 stakeholders gathered in Oslo for the kick-off meeting of the STOP-IT...

STOP-IT

Water infrastructures are essential for society, human welfare and health, but they can be endangered by physical threats...

DiAMANT-Water: Data of the Future

The integrity of the water infrastructure is hard to determine using a directly measurable parameter, such as the...

Pilot research

Pilot research is an important component of our work: it reveals, following the laboratory phase, where possible problems...

Peter van Thienen PhD

Peter van Thienen is a senior researcher and Chief Information Officer of KWR. In his CIO role, Peter...

Ina Vertommen MSc

Ina Vertommen is a scientific researcher in the Water Infrastructure team. She works with her colleagues on the...