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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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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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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
AquaNES

Water scarcity, excess water in cities and micro-pollutants in the water cycle are challenges for now and the future. In AquaNES, we test constructed Natural and Engineered Systems (cNES) to face these challenges, develop a monitoring programme…

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Enabling technologies
Hydroinformatics
Smartroof 2.0

Heat stress is a growing problem in the urban environment. In this TKI project, industry, real-estate managers, and government and research entities joined forces to optimise the cooling function of evaporation from blue-green roofs. The project produced…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
SUBSOL

Coastal areas are the most productive and economically dominant regions of the world. The high water demand in these regions, however, puts tremendous pressure on their freshwater resources and ecosystems. This leads to problems like seasonal water…

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Sustainability
Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – Harnaschpolder

Technology The greenhouse horticultural sector in the Netherlands requires large quantities of high-quality irrigation water at an attractive rate. This project examined the possibilities of storing treated effluent in the subsurface, and then using it for greenhouse…

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Sustainable resources
Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

The successful realisation of the greenhouse horticulture area of Nieuw Prinsenland (Dinteloord) requires that the supply of irrigation water be made sustainable. There is insufficient rainwater to meet the needs of the greenhouse horticulturalists, and there are…

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Daphne Wiggers de Vries
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Daphne Wiggers de Vries

Scientific researcher

Daphne Wiggers de Vries works as a scientific researcher and project manager in the Geohydrology team. Her expertise is in mapping underground potential. In recent years, as a geologist, she…

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daphne.wiggers.de.vries@kwrwater.nl

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Jelmer Nijp PhD
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Jelmer Nijp PhD

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Jelmer Nijp has been working as a researcher in the Ecohydrology team since 2018. Jelmer's field is at the interface of Hydrology and Ecology, combining mathematical models, field measurements, experiments…

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jelmer.nijp@kwrwater.nl

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Sija Stofberg PhD
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Sija Stofberg PhD

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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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sija.stofberg@kwrwater.nl

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Cool heads and dry feet thanks to blue-green roof

01 November 2018 — At the annual National Delta Congress, outgoing Delta Programme Commissioner, Wim Kuijken, shined the spotlight on Smartroof 2.0.…

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Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

08 September 2017 — On Friday, 8 September, the innovative, blue-green SmartRoof 2.0 was opened at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. The hot,…

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‘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…

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Collaboration in knowledge and research programme Lumbricus formalised

15 December 2016 — The collaboration between the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and a consortium of water boards, knowledge institutions…

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More and more interest in KWR’s Freshmaker

27 August 2015 — In 2013, together with ZLTO and Meeuwse Goes BV, KWR developed the Freshmaker technique, a method for storing…

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On the way to ‘biologically stable’ drinking water

01 January 2015 — In 2015, within the joint research programme for the water companies, KWR worked on the further development of…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is not a given. Globally, the water sector is…

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Water storage

Circular Rain

Smarter sprinkling using subsurface water storage, combined with iron removal

AquaNES

Smartroof 2.0

SUBSOL

Effluent reuse – Harnaschpolder

Effluent reuse – TOM Dinteloord

Cool heads and dry feet thanks to blue-green roof

Innovative blue-green roof cools the city and prevents flooding

‘The future of the water economy is circular’

Collaboration in knowledge and research programme Lumbricus formalised

More and more interest in KWR’s Freshmaker

On the way to ‘biologically stable’ drinking water

Sustainable use of freshwater resources

Allied Waters

European research