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The Department of Water Management is proud to announce the winner of the Cees Boeter Award for the best BSc thesis written in the 2018-2019 academic year.

De biologische anaerobe zuiveringstechniek krijgt steeds meer een centrale plek binnen de gewenste cyclische processen in de maatschappij. Dat zegt de Delftse professor Jules van Lier naar aanleiding van de onlangs in Nederland gehouden wereldconferentie.

The Netherlands Space Office recently funded two CEG earth observation projects, regarding respectively global vegetation water dynamics form radar satellite data (Susan Steele Dunne) and ice shelf instability in Antarctica (Stef Lhermitte).

Nu de verwerkingscapaciteit van rioolslib in Nederland haar grenzen bereikt, steekt de discussie over toepassing van rioolwaterzuiveringsslib in de landbouw binnen Europa met enige regelmaat de kop op. De regelgeving in Nederland is duidelijk, rioolwaterzuiveringsslib mag niet in de landbouw gebruikt worden. Veel landen in Europa kijken hier anders tegenaan.

Thom Bogaard (associate professor water management) was awarded a grant worth EUR 250.000 by NWO for his proposal on improving sustainable water resources management.

The Department of Water Management is proud to announce the winner of the Cees Boeter Award for the best BSc thesis written in the 2017-2018 academic year.

Waternet, the public water utility of Amsterdam, wants to operate climate neutrally in 2020: no greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Energy recovery from the water cycle has a huge potential to contribute to this ambition: the recovered energy is an alternative for fossil fuel. An innovative option is thermal energy recovery from drinking water.

Technology such as MRI helps us to understand the processes that take place in biomass when we purify waste water with micro-organisms. We can use this knowledge to extract more energy and resources (and new pollution) from our own waste water. But we also need new knowledge to tackle problems in the rapidly expanding world cities, where waste water purification is often a relatively new concept. We can and must get much more out of our waste water. This is argued by Professor Merle de Kreuk, who will give her inaugural address at TU Delft on Wednesday, 23 May.

Prof. Nick van de Giesen received an IBM Technology & Data grant in the form of free super computing power and weather data. The project of Prof. Van de Giesen and Camille le Coz (both from the Water Management department) focusses on the simulation of rainfall and weather data in Africa to increase farmer resilience.

Access to safe drinking water is a global challenge, particularly affecting the rural poor in developing countries. This urgent problem requires new, smart solutions for the removal of a wide range of contaminants of global concern, such as arsenic, fluoride, pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes.