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AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2021 Urban water solutions. The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) is a global movement towards a sustainable water environment. This biennial event gathers experts from cities, industries, and utilities from all over the world to combine real-life water cases with innovative solutions. SEWER SURVEILLANCE PART OF DUTCH NATIONAL COVID-19 Sewage water screening will be part of the Dutch national Covid-19 dashboard, a monitoring tool on the Coronavirus that is currently in preparation by the Dutch Government. By applying artificial intelligence, the correlation between sewer surveillance and all other Covid-related data, is expected to enrich the national dashboard and improve the early warning of new outbreaks. ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME Measures at more than 30 locations. The Room for the River programme encompassed four rivers: the Rhine, the Meuse, the Waal, and the IJssel. At more than 30 locations, measures were taken to give the river space to flood safely. HYDRALOOP WINS BEST OF BEST AWARD AT WORLD'S LARGEST Dutch company Hydraloop won the award for the Best of Best at the electronic technology trade show CES2020 in Las Vegas on 9 January. Hydraloop developed a water purification system that can easily be placed in homes and recycles up to 85 percent of all domestic water

used.

REGREENING INITIATIVE COMBATS DESERTIFICATION OF FARMLAND Digging bunds in arid ground to capture rain fall is one of the options to combat desertification in many African countries. It is one of the interventions initiated by foundation Justdiggit to start regreening. Recently the foundation, together with partners, created the tool Greener.Land to enable farmers to quickly assess the options to fight desertification of their land. GREEN ENERGY FROM DANE RIVER WITH ARCHIMEDES SCREW Landustrie Sneek recently delivered a Landy Archimedes screw turbine for a hydroelectric plant at Havannah Weir on the river Dane, UK. The screw turbine will be at the heart of a hydropower scheme to supply green energy to the local community. TRIPLE BENEFITS OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION "Delay and pay, or plan and prosper", said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a press conference for the release of a report on adapting to climate change in Beijing. Ban Ki-moon chairs the Global Commission on Adaptation that released the report ‘Adapt now’ on

10 September.

BEIRA MUNICIPAL RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN Beira, with a population of more than 500.000, is the second largest city of Mozambique and is located in the estuary of the Pungue river.

The city is

DUTCH CONSULTANT RENÉ NOPPENEY WINS TOP 25 GLOBAL WATER A known eccentric on the global water circuit, that is how the trade magazine Water & Wastewater International describes the winner of this Top 25 of Global water leaders: Dutch consultant René Noppeney of

Royal HaskoningDHV.

SECOND SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT Dredging 35 km New Suez Canal. The consortium was tasked with dredging a 35 km long New Suez Canal that runs parallel to the existing canal; dredging a record breaking 200 million m3 of sand, clay and rock in

less than 9 months.

used.

10 September.

BEIRA MUNICIPAL RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN Beira, with a population of more than 500.000, is the second largest city of Mozambique and is located in the estuary of the Pungue river.

The city is

Royal HaskoningDHV.

less than 9 months.

SURFACE WATER

A good quality of surface waters like lakes, large ponds, water reservoirs and public waters is important for recreational use or drinking water supply. To keep the quality at an excellent level, the growth of blue-green algae, for example, presents a global problem. Therefore it is important to LAUNCH CELLCAP TECHNOLOGY FOR CELLULOSE RECOVERY FROM 1 day ago · Water technology company Cirtec announced the launch of its CellCap sieve technology for the recovery of cellulose from sewer water. The new technology integrates two separation steps to separate a high quality reusable cellulose product from other WORLD BANK ADVISES UPSTREAM PLASTIC WASTE REMOVAL The World Bank has published a Deltares-led study estimating that 346.5 kton of plastic waste in Indonesia ends up in rivers and finally in the ocean. One of the recommendations by the Bank to the Indonesian Government is to remove litter as much as possible upstream from locations where it accumulates, such as dams and floodgates. SEWER SURVEILLANCE PART OF DUTCH NATIONAL COVID-19 Sewage water screening will be part of the Dutch national Covid-19 dashboard, a monitoring tool on the Coronavirus that is currently in preparation by the Dutch Government. By applying artificial intelligence, the correlation between sewer surveillance and all other Covid-related data, is expected to enrich the national dashboard and improve the early warning of new outbreaks. SEWAGE WATER AS INDICATOR FOR SPREADING OF COVID-19 Microbiologists at research institute KWR conducted a series of RNA-analyses at municipal waste water treatment plants (WWTP) in the Netherlands. The analyses showed the presence of RNA gene fragments of the COVID-19 virus in incoming sewage water. According to KWR the screening of the COVID-19 virus at municipal waste water plants can be used to signal new outbreaks in advance and SEWERS4COVID WINS FIRST ROUND EU HACKATHON Sewers4COVID, a team with Dutch, Greek, Spanish, and British participants, is one of the 117 solutions to remain in the race of the Coronavirus-related challenge EUvsVirus, organised by the European Commission. The international team worked on the idea to develop a nation-wide early warning system for the Netherlands, by surveillance of sewer collection networks to track the spread of the virus. ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME Measures at more than 30 locations. The Room for the River programme encompassed four rivers: the Rhine, the Meuse, the Waal, and the IJssel. At more than 30 locations, measures were taken to give the river space to flood safely. PUB SINGAPORE OPENS WORLD'S LARGEST CERAMIC MEMBRANE WATER Singapore’s National Water Agency, PUB, officially opened the newly upgraded Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) that houses the largest ceramic membrane system in the world. This ceramic membrane technology, CeraMac®, was developed by PWNT, subsidiary of the Dutch PWN drinking water company. SECOND SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT Dredging 35 km New Suez Canal. The consortium was tasked with dredging a 35 km long New Suez Canal that runs parallel to the existing canal; dredging a record breaking 200 million m3 of sand, clay and rock in

less than 9 months.

DE URBANISTEN REALISES SECOND ICONIC WATER SQUARE IN TIEL The Dutch city of Tiel opened a new water square designed by De Urbanisten on 8 July. The square has been designed to solve urban water issues, such as AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2021 The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) is a global movement towards a sustainable water environment. This biennial event gathers experts from cities, industries, and utilities from all over the world to combine real-life water cases with innovative solutions. And so creating a circular and resilient water environment in high-density SEWER SURVEILLANCE PART OF DUTCH NATIONAL COVID-19 Sewage water screening will be part of the Dutch national Covid-19 dashboard, a monitoring tool on the Coronavirus that is currently in preparation by the Dutch Government. By applying artificial intelligence, the correlation between sewer surveillance and all other Covid-related data, is expected to enrich the national dashboard and improve the early warning of new outbreaks. ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME In 2007 the Dutch Government started with the development of the Room for the River Programme. Main goal was to manage higher water levels in rivers by lowering the levels of flood plains, creating water buffers, relocating levees, increasing the depth of side channels, and the construction of flood bypasses. The programme consisted of over 30 TRIPLE BENEFITS OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION "Delay and pay, or plan and prosper", said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a press conference for the release of a report on adapting to climate change in Beijing. Ban Ki-moon chairs the Global Commission on Adaptation that released the report ‘Adapt now’ on

10 September.

GREEN ENERGY FROM DANE RIVER WITH ARCHIMEDES SCREW Green energy from Dane river with Archimedes screw. Landustrie Sneek recently delivered a Landy Archimedes screw turbine for a hydroelectric plant at Havannah Weir on the river Dane, UK. The screw turbine will be at the heart of a hydropower scheme to supply green energy to the local community. REGREENING INITIATIVE COMBATS DESERTIFICATION OF FARMLAND Digging bunds in arid ground to capture rain fall is one of the options to combat desertification in many African countries. It is one of the interventions initiated by foundation Justdiggit to start regreening. Recently the foundation, together with partners, created the tool Greener.Land to enable farmers to quickly assess the options to fight desertification of their land. SECOND SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT This section goes straight through the Sinai desert, is parallel to the current canal and will be about 35 km long. In its totality the second Suez Canal will measure 72 km long, 200 m wide and 24 m deep. With an effective build schedule of just ten months, construction of the second Suez Canal was a PUB SINGAPORE OPENS WORLD'S LARGEST CERAMIC MEMBRANE WATER Singapore’s National Water Agency, PUB, officially opened the newly upgraded Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) that houses the largest ceramic membrane system in the world. This ceramic membrane technology, CeraMac®, was developed by PWNT, subsidiary of the Dutch PWN drinking water company. MARIN REVEALS CONCEPT OF A FLOATING MULTIFUNCTIONAL MEGA MARIN reveals concept of a floating multifunctional mega island. Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (Marin) revealed a new concept for a floating mega island. The institute tested the concept in one of its basins for offshore scale models. The concept consists of 87 large floating triangles that are connected flexibly to each other. REBUILDING CYCLONE-HIT BEIRA: ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE CHANNELS The city of Beira, Mozambique released the Beira Municipal Recovery and Resilience Plan to rebuild the city after it was hit by cyclone Idai on 15 March. The heavy rainfall that followed in the next eight days flooded a substantial part of the city. It showed that additional drainage capacity is AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2021 The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) is a global movement towards a sustainable water environment. This biennial event gathers experts from cities, industries, and utilities from all over the world to combine real-life water cases with innovative solutions. And so creating a circular and resilient water environment in high-density SEWER SURVEILLANCE PART OF DUTCH NATIONAL COVID-19 Sewage water screening will be part of the Dutch national Covid-19 dashboard, a monitoring tool on the Coronavirus that is currently in preparation by the Dutch Government. By applying artificial intelligence, the correlation between sewer surveillance and all other Covid-related data, is expected to enrich the national dashboard and improve the early warning of new outbreaks. ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME In 2007 the Dutch Government started with the development of the Room for the River Programme. Main goal was to manage higher water levels in rivers by lowering the levels of flood plains, creating water buffers, relocating levees, increasing the depth of side channels, and the construction of flood bypasses. The programme consisted of over 30 TRIPLE BENEFITS OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION "Delay and pay, or plan and prosper", said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a press conference for the release of a report on adapting to climate change in Beijing. Ban Ki-moon chairs the Global Commission on Adaptation that released the report ‘Adapt now’ on

10 September.

SURFACE WATER

and floodgates.

SEWER SURVEILLANCE PART OF DUTCH NATIONAL COVID-19 Sewage water screening will be part of the Dutch national Covid-19 dashboard, a monitoring tool on the Coronavirus that is currently in preparation by the Dutch Government. By applying artificial intelligence, the correlation between sewer surveillance and all other Covid-related data, is expected to enrich the national dashboard and improve the early warning of new outbreaks. SEMIOTIC LABS WINS WIS AWARD 2020 WITH SAM4 INNOVATION Semiotic Labs has won the overall WIS Award 2020 with its smart asset management system SAM4 for electrical pumps, engines and valves. The public award went to the Circleaner by Noria that removes plastic soup from surface water. The grand finale for the best Dutch innovative water technologies of 2020, organised by Water Alliance, was streamed on 18 December from a studio in SEWAGE WATER AS INDICATOR FOR SPREADING OF COVID-19 Microbiologists at research institute KWR conducted a series of RNA-analyses at municipal waste water treatment plants (WWTP) in the Netherlands. The analyses showed the presence of RNA gene fragments of the COVID-19 virus in incoming sewage water. According to KWR the screening of the COVID-19 virus at municipal waste water plants can be used to signal new outbreaks in advance and SEWERS4COVID WINS FIRST ROUND EU HACKATHON Sewers4COVID, a team with Dutch, Greek, Spanish, and British participants, is one of the 117 solutions to remain in the race of the Coronavirus-related challenge EUvsVirus, organised by the European Commission. The international team worked on the idea to develop a nation-wide early warning system for the Netherlands, by surveillance of sewer collection networks to track the spread of the virus. WATER OPERATORS' PARTNERSHIP HELPS JORDANIAN UTILITY TO Water Operators' Partnership helps Jordanian utility to build resilience. Jordanian Yarmouk Water Company and World Waternet kicked off an extensive Water Operators' Partnership to improve drinking water and wastewater services in the Northern part of Jordan. Starting in November 2020, this Water Operators’ Partnership will run for

three years.

BOOMING BANGLADESH

Cooperation between Bangladesh and the Netherlands has intensified in recent decades. While Bangladesh experiences rapid and strong economic growth, new challenges and opportunities emerge in the water sector. Within the framework of the Dutch Partners for Water programme, Delta expert and publicist Joep Janssen travelled to the capital Dhaka (before the corona crisis), to gain a HYDRALOOP WINS BEST OF BEST AWARD AT WORLD'S LARGEST Hydraloop wins Best of best award at world's largest electronic show CES2020. Dutch company Hydraloop won the award for the Best of Best at the electronic technology trade show CES2020 in Las Vegas on 9 January. Hydraloop developed a water purification system that can easily be placed in homes and recycles up to 85 percent of all

domestic water

AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK 2021 The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) is a global movement towards a sustainable water environment. This biennial event gathers experts from cities, industries, and utilities from all over the world to combine real-life water cases with innovative solutions. And so creating a circular and resilient water environment in high-density

URBAN RESILIENCE

Urban resilience. Cities need to become more resilient to climate change and water crises. Urban areas and large cities are facing challenges brought on by population pressure, infrastructure congestion, rising sea level and weather changes. Flood risk, water contamination and water shortages are already major threats in many

places.

ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME In 2007 the Dutch Government started with the development of the Room for the River Programme. Main goal was to manage higher water levels in rivers by lowering the levels of flood plains, creating water buffers, relocating levees, increasing the depth of side channels, and the construction of flood bypasses. The programme consisted of over 30 UN CLIMATE SUMMIT COP26 The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UK is committed to working with all countries and joining forces with civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate change to inspire climate action ahead of

COP26.

URBAN RESILIENCE

places.

COP26.

GREEN ENERGY FROM DANE RIVER WITH ARCHIMEDES SCREW Green energy from Dane river with Archimedes screw. Landustrie Sneek recently delivered a Landy Archimedes screw turbine for a hydroelectric plant at Havannah Weir on the river Dane, UK. The screw turbine will be at the heart of a hydropower scheme to supply green energy to the local community. REGREENING INITIATIVE COMBATS DESERTIFICATION OF FARMLAND Digging bunds in arid ground to capture rain fall is one of the options to combat desertification in many African countries. It is one of the interventions initiated by foundation Justdiggit to start regreening. Recently the foundation, together with partners, created the tool Greener.Land to enable farmers to quickly assess the options to fight desertification of their land. TRIPLE BENEFITS OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION Triple dividend. The report finds that investing 1.8 trillion dollar globally in climate adaptation could yield 7.1 trillion in net benefits. Prevention of damages through climate adaptation can deliver a ‘triple dividend’, states the report as adaptation avoids future losses, generates positive economic gains through innovation, and PUB SINGAPORE OPENS WORLD'S LARGEST CERAMIC MEMBRANE WATER Singapore’s National Water Agency, PUB, officially opened the newly upgraded Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) that houses the largest ceramic membrane system in the world. This ceramic membrane technology, CeraMac®, was developed by PWNT, subsidiary of the Dutch PWN drinking water company. MARIN REVEALS CONCEPT OF A FLOATING MULTIFUNCTIONAL MEGA MARIN reveals concept of a floating multifunctional mega island. Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (Marin) revealed a new concept for a floating mega island. The institute tested the concept in one of its basins for offshore scale models. The concept consists of 87 large floating triangles that are connected flexibly to each other. ROOM FOR THE RIVER PROGRAMME COMPLETES ITS LARGEST Dutch national public works Rijkswaterstaat can again delete a Room for the River project from its to-do list. On 12 October the partial depoldering of the Noordwaard, near Werkendam, the Netherlands, was officially completed. SPECIAL SIPHON TO LIFT HUGE WATER FLOW WITH LOW ENERGY USE 16 hours ago · Van Heck Group designed, produced and placed a temporary siphon construction to transport 23,050 m3/h water over a duct construction in Oberhausen, Germany. The water flow is lifted 5,5 meter using hardly any pump energy. The Emschergenossenschaft is constructing a 51 km sewer tunnel along the NIJHUIS SAUR WINS GLOBAL WATER AWARD 2021 FOR L’ORÉAL Nijhuis Saur Industries has been awarded the Industrial Project of the Year as one of the categories of the Global Water Awards 2021. Annually organised by Global Water Intelligence (GWI), the awards are presented in several categories to recognise and reward initiatives in NIJHUIS SAUER WINS GLOBAL WATER AWARD 2021 FOR L’ORÉAL Nijhuis Saur Industries has been awarded the Industrial Project of the Year as one of the categories of the Global Water Awards 2021. NX Filtration made it to runner up in the category Breakthrough

Technology Company.

URBAN RESILIENCE

places.

SEMIOTIC LABS WINS WIS AWARD 2020 WITH SAM4 INNOVATION Semiotic Labs has won the overall WIS Award 2020 with its smart asset management system SAM4 for electrical pumps, engines and valves. The public award went to the Circleaner by Noria that removes plastic soup from surface water. The grand finale for the best Dutch innovative water technologies of 2020, organised by Water Alliance, was streamed on 18 December from a studio in UN CLIMATE SUMMIT COP26 The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UK is committed to working with all countries and joining forces with civil society, companies and people on the frontline of climate change to inspire climate action ahead of

COP26.

NEW INNOVATIVE WATER SQUARE COMBINES LEISURE AND STORM Rotterdam's first full-scale water square, Benthemplein, was officially opened on 4 December. All parties involved in the design of the square - constructors, neighbours, church-goers and students from the surrounding schools - joined in the festive opening by local administrator Nils Berndsen, national deltacommisioner Wim Kuijken and vice-mayor Alexandra van Huffelen. ROTATING FLOATING SOLAR PARK FOR WATER UTILITY EVIDES Rotating floating solar park for water utility Evides. On 10 July, Dutch water supply company Evides officially opened its 1.62 MW floating solar park on a water reservoir in the heart of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Winches align the 4,787 PV modules with the sun. The installation has been developed by SAND MOTOR: DOING ITS JOB STRENGTHENING THE DUTCH COAST Sand Motor: Doing its job strengthening the Dutch coast. The artificial peninsula on the Dutch coast, the Sand Motor, has gradually spread 2.5 million cubic meter sand. Wind, tide and currents reshaped the sand body making it 260 metres narrower and 2.2 kilometres longer. Over a length of 2.5 kilometers the Dutch coastline has moved seawards SECOND SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT This section goes straight through the Sinai desert, is parallel to the current canal and will be about 35 km long. In its totality the second Suez Canal will measure 72 km long, 200 m wide and 24 m deep. With an effective build schedule of just ten months, construction of the second Suez Canal was a THIS WEBSITE USES COOKIES We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our

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