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Ko, N.T. (author), Suter, Phil (author), Conallin, John (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author)Rivers and wetlands in Myanmar provide essential services to people in terms of transportation, agriculture, fisheries and a myriad of other ecosystem services, all of which are dependent on a healthy ecosystem. Irrigation channels are also an important part of the infrastructure for daily water use in Myanmar. The objective of this research...journal article 2020
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Chen, L. (author), Ling, Fangqiong (author), Bakker, Geo (author), Liu, Wen Tso (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Meer, W.G.J. (author), Liu, G. (author)Worldwide, it is common that the drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) may be subjected to changes of supply water quality due to the needs of upgrading the treatment processes or switching the source water. However, the potential impacts of quality changed supply water on the stabilized ecological niches within DWDSs and the associated...journal article 2020
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Wijdeveld, A.J. (author)The management of sediment, soil and water in the Netherlands dates back to the first settlements in the lower Northern and Western parts of the Netherlands. Around 500 B.C. farmers constructed ‘terps’ (artificial dwelling mounds) to protect against floodwater. The Romans (50 B.C. – 250 A.C.) reshaped natural waterways, to improve transport by...doctoral thesis 2019
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Davids, J.C. (author)Data gaps as educational opportunities - mobilizing young researchers, citizen scientists, and mobile technology in data and resource scarce areas. This dissertation chronicles these themes through the lessons learned along the fledgling journey of SmartPhones4Water (S4W) and S4W-Nepal, from inception through the first few years of...doctoral thesis 2019
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Tscheikner-Gratl, F. (author), Bellos, Vasilis (author), Schellart, Alma (author), Moreno Rodenas, A. (author), Muthusamy, Manoranjan (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author), Shucksmith, James (author), Heuvelink, Gerard B.M. (author)This paper aims to stimulate discussion based on the experiences derived from the QUICS project (Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies). First it briefly discusses the current state of knowledge on uncertainties in sub-models of integrated catchment models and the existing frameworks for analysing uncertainty. Furthermore, it...review 2019
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Herrig, Ilona (author), Seis, W.A.A. (author), Fischer, Helmut (author), Regnery, Julia (author), Manz, Werner (author), Reifferscheid, Georg (author), Böer, Simone (author)Background: Fecal indicator organisms such as Escherichia coli, enterococci, and coliphages are important to assess, monitor, and predict microbial water quality in natural freshwater ecosystems. To improve predictive modelling of fecal indicators in surface waters, it is vital to assess the influence of autochthonous and allochthonous...journal article 2019
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Chen, Xiaomin (author), Xu, Gaohong (author), Zhang, Wanshun (author), Peng, Hong (author), Xia, Han (author), Zhang, Xiao (author), Ke, Q. (author), Wan, Jing (author)The Three Gorges Project (TGP) has greatly enhanced the heterogeneity of the underlying surface in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA), thereby affecting the hydrologic processes and water quality. However, the influence of the differences of underlying surfaces on the hydrologic processes and water quality in the TGRA has not been studied...journal article 2019
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Moreno Rodenas, A. (author), Tscheikner-Gratl, F. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)Receiving water quality simulation in highly urbanised areas requires the integration of several processes occurring at different space-time scales. These integrated catchment models deliver results with a significant uncertainty level associated. Still, uncertainty analysis is seldom applied in practice and the relative contribution of the...journal article 2019
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Yu, Liang (author), Rozemeijer, Joachim C. (author), van der Velde, Ype (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Ouboter, Maarten (author), Broers, Hans Peter (author)Urban areas in coastal lowlands host a significant part of the world's population. In these areas, cities have often expanded to unfavorable locations that have to be drained or where excess rain water and groundwater need to be pumped away in order to maintain dry feet for its citizens. As a result, groundwater seepage influences surface...journal article 2019
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van Bel, Nikki (author), Hornstra, Luc M. (author), van der Veen, Anita (author), Medema, G.J. (author)To ensure delivery of microbiologically safe drinking water, the physical integrity of the distribution system is an important control measure. During repair works or an incident the drinking water pipe is open and microbiologically contaminated water or soil may enter. Before taking the pipe back into service it must be cleaned. The efficacy of...journal article 2019
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Winter, Casper de (author), Palleti, Venkata Reddy (author), Worm, Daniel (author), Kooij, Robert (author)Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical to provide safe, clean drinking water around the globe. However, they are susceptible to accidental or deliberate contamination, potentially resulting in poisoned water, many fatalities and large economic consequences. In order to protect against such intrusions, an efficient sensor network...journal article 2019
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Abdallah, Mohammed (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Supplying high-quality water at competitive cost is a major challenge for water utilities worldwide, especially with ever increasing water quality standards and energy prices. A number of pump scheduling methods for optimizing simultaneously water quality and energy cost have been developed already. However, none of these methods is ideal...journal article 2019
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Thanda Thatoe Nwe Win, T.T.N.W. (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Newly developed mobile phone applications in combination with citizen science are used in different fields of research, such as public health monitoring, environmental monitoring, precipitation monitoring, noise pollution measurement and mapping, earth observation. In this paper, we present a low-cost water quality mobile phone measurement...journal article 2019
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van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Mol, Stefan (author), Giorgi, Sara (author), Ahmad, J.I. (author), Liu, G. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contribute to climate change. The public water utility of Amsterdam wants to operate climate neutrally in 2020 to reduce its GHG emissions. Energy recovery from the water cycle has a large potential to contribute to this goal: the recovered energy is an alternative for fossil fuel and thus contributes to the...journal article 2018
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Aydin, B.E. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), Abraham, E. (author)Surface water salinization in deltaic areas due to saline groundwater exfiltration is an important issue. Fresh water diverted from the rivers is used for flushing the canals and the ditches in coastal areas to remove the low quality saline surface water mixed with saline groundwater. Worldwide, deltaic areas are under stress due to climate...conference paper 2018
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Hartmann, J. (author), van der Aa, Monique (author), Wuijts, Susanne (author), de Roda Husman, Ana Maria (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)The presence of emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment may affect human health via exposure to drinking water. And, even if some of these emerging contaminants are not a threat to human health, their presence might still influence the public perception of drinking water quality. Over the last decades, much research has been done on...journal article 2018
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Kelly, Elizabeth A. (author), Feng, Zhixuan (author), Gidley, Maribeth L. (author), Sinigalliano, Christopher D. (author), Kumar, Naresh (author), Donahue, Allison G. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Solo-Gabriele, Helena M. (author)When beach water monitoring programs identify poor water quality, the causes are frequently unknown. We hypothesize that management policies play an important role in the frequency of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) exceedances (enterococci and fecal coliform) at recreational beaches. To test this hypothesis we implemented an innovative...journal article 2018
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Zlatanovic, L. (author), Knezev, A (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Vreeburg, Jan (author)Drinking water and fire safety are strongly bonded to each other. Actual drinking water demand and fire flows are both delivered through the same network, and are both devoted to public health and safety. In The Netherlands, the discussion about fire flows supplied by the drinking water networks has drawn fire fighters and drinking water...journal article 2018
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Davids, J.C. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), Shah, Ram Devi T. (author), Shah, Deep N. (author), Devkota, Nischal (author), Izeboud, P. (author), Pandey, Anusha (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Land development without thoughtful water supply planning can lead to unsustainability. In practice, management of our lands and waters is often unintegrated. We present new land-use, ecological stream health, water quality, and streamflow data from nine perennial watersheds in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, in the 2016 monsoon (i.e., August...journal article 2018
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El Chakhtoura, J. (author), Saikaly, Pascal E. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)We sampled the tap water of seven unique, full-scale drinking water distribution systems at different locations as well as the corresponding treatment plant effluents to evaluate the impact of distribution and the potential presence of a core drinking water microbiome. The water was also sampled during network flushing to examine its effect on...journal article 2018