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Waterwijs has developed a lot of knowledge that is valuable and that can be used in work on the water transition. The Water Transition and Drinking Water Knowledge File links this knowledge about the water transition to practical cases. In this way, drinking water professionals and KWR researchers can learn from each other and knowledge is more readily available for people working in the field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Our water system is under pressure from water shortages, fast water drainage, increasing water consumption, pollution and salinisation. We must work with water differently to make the system more resilient to climate change and to maintain adequate supplies of clean water for nature, drinking water, industry and agriculture. This process is known as the \u2018water transition\u2019.<\/p>\n

The water transition requires intelligent decisions about planning our country so that adequate supplies of clean water are maintained for everyone. To secure drinking water supplies in the future, it is also important to use water (and particularly drinking water) more economically and to reuse the available water. The major challenge is to develop action perspectives that will help to shape this change in the administrative and physical water system, putting the value of water first.<\/p>\n

Knowledge file for the water transition and drinking water<\/h2>\n

The goal of the project is to increase the impact of Waterwijs knowledge about the water transition, and therefore to support and accelerate the water transition. The deliverables are collected in the Water Transition Knowledge File, and they consist of three categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. Knowledge mapping:\u00a0fact sheets with the available knowledge about the agendas in the water transition, accompanied by an overview of KWR experts and a list of relevant Waterwijs reports;<\/li>\n
  2. Values in the water transition: possible solutions based on specimen cases, with value considerations;<\/li>\n
  3. Impact in action: a description of action perspectives for achieving the water transition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Knowledge mapping<\/h2>\n

    In the first phase of the knowledge file, the available knowledge has been mapped out in fact sheets about important topics that set out the challenges and possible solutions based on research results from Waterwijs.<\/p>\n