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Year Review 2021

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Co-makership towards better solutions for the water sector

02 June 2022 — “If there is one thing two years of living with COVID-19 has taught us, it is that working…

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Treasure hunting in the updated REWAB database

31 December 2021 — REWAB, which is the Dutch acronym for the ‘Registry of Water Utility Water-Quality Data’, was created in 1992.…

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Raising tap water awareness through citizen science

31 December 2021 — Water utilities are faced with the challenge of raising the awareness with which customers deal with water. This…

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Hydrogen works for the water sector

31 December 2021 — Hydrogen presents the water sector with interesting opportunities to contribute to the energy transition. Through research and innovation,…

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Co-makership: jointly creating, sharing and implementing knowledge

31 December 2021 — KWR develops knowledge through which the water sector can achieve its objectives as sustainably as possible, and helps…

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Applied research with an impact on working with water

06 December 2021 — KWR is involved in a range of research programmes, including BTO (joint research for water companies) and WiCE…

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New Legionella regulations to be rooted in latest scientific understanding

06 December 2021 — Scientific research into Legionella has yielded many new insights over the past twenty years that are now being…

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KWR’s Joint Research Programme and Watershare share knowledge in international webinar series

16 November 2021 — In the coming months, KWR will organise a webinar series on ‘Sharing International Experiences on Water Supply’. During…

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Keeping drinking water pipes in top shape with award-winning robot

12 November 2021 — Here you can learn more about the award-winning Autonomous Inspection Robot (AIR), which in the future will be…

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Marion Koopmans receives KWR Honorary Fellowship

09 November 2021 — Marion Koopmans, Professor of Virology, receives the KWR Honorary Fellowship 2020. She has been granted the honorific title…

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AquaPriori web application predicts effect of treatment processes

05 November 2021 — During a demonstration workshop at KWR, the participants from drinking-water utilities and laboratories got a good impression of…

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COVID-19 Sewage Surveillance must-reads

28 October 2021 — Since early February 2020 KWR-researchers have been monitoring sewage water at various wastewater treatment plants in The Netherlands…

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Four-year European LIFE-Climate grant for regional hydrogen project LIFE NEW HYTS

27 October 2021 — A broad-based consortium in the region of Utrecht has launched the LIFE NEW HYTS (reNEWable green HYdrogen for…

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KWR starts with innovative water reuse in its own building

22 October 2021 — Much of KWR’s research has to do with addressing the scarcity of water. The sustainable reuse of water…

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KWR and WarmteStad work on enhancing the sustainability of heat plant with a digital twin

21 October 2021 — A digital twin of the future heat plant in Groningen will help make smarter use of renewable sources…

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Designer drugs dodge the law

30 September 2021 — Every year tens of new substances appear on the market in Europe; substances that actually have stimulating, psychotropic…

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Citizen science with impact is done TOGETHER – according to this new manual

24 September 2021 — Since 2016, both within and outside of its Joint Research Programme with the water utilities, KWR has built…

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New hydrological-hydraulic model offers insight into water availability

23 September 2021 — A new conceptual hydrological-hydraulic water model can quantify, for the Flemish water production centre Kluizen (De Watergroep), whether…

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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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WarmingUPdate: where are we now, where we are headed?

19 July 2021 — We are halfway through the WarmingUP period and well on our way. So it’s time for a detailed…

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Urgency and transparency drive research

06 July 2021 — Demand-driven research and open communications: two success factors in sector research for water companies (BTO). That has been…

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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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Assessment framework to involve stakeholders in asset management

01 June 2021 — The sector study ‘360° stakeholder management’ systematically mapped out and analysed stakeholder involvement in three practical cases in…

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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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Sewage surveillance as an early warning system for SARS-CoV-2 detection

11 May 2021 — In recent research, we looked at how local sewage surveillance can provide information about the prevalence of the…

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KWR is part of Watershare, a true community of water experts

19 April 2021 — KWR is one of the 25 members of the international platform Watershare. Over the past year, Watershare has developed…

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Digital transformation bears fruit for the water sector

29 March 2021 — The digital transformation taking place in many areas of our lives is now also bearing fruit for the…

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Hysolar opens hydrogen filling station in Nieuwegein

15 March 2021 — It’s the spring of 2021 and the time has come: Hysolar is opening the first green hydrogen filling…

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Making raised sandy soil areas climate-robust: the work goes on

05 March 2021 — Over the last four years the Lumbricus programme has involved the conduct of practice-oriented research, but also the…

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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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Sources and effects of microplastics in water still not sufficiently known

22 February 2021 — The Deltafact Microplastics of the Chain Explorer, a project within the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse programme, was recently…

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Jury and public choose Comsima as winner of BTO Implementation Award

15 February 2021 — On Thursday, 11 February, the Comsima team was presented with the BTO 2020 Implementation Award from the digital…

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‘Deploying scientific base for climate and clean water’

05 February 2021 — Late last year Milou Dingemans and Ruud Bartholomeus were appointed as the new Chief Science Officers (CSOs) at…

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Collaborating on the circular water economy for a sustainable and climate-proof Europe

31 December 2020 — KWR leads two big European projects that should point the way towards a circular water economy and greater…

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