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Wageningen UR
Water@WUR
3rd of February 2017, Huub Rijnaarts
Natural resources and living
environment
To explore the potential of nature
to improve the quality of life
Food and biobased
production
Society and well-being
Water@WUR 1
Water-Food-Energy-Biodiversity NEXUS
● Water-Food, Water-Biodiversity, Water-Industry,....
● Delta – Hinterland: River Basins!
● Cross Sectoral Solutions
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Water availability: delta’s under pressure
From National Geographic
Hoitink and Zang, 2014
What about Europe?
From National Geographic
Trends in SIMULATED August flow
(1963-2001)
decreasing
increasing
Dr. Stahl et al.; van Lanen, H.A: 2012
Climate change & river basins
Drought: pan-European trends
Melsen, Lieke: 2014
Water Nexus Consortium
Waterwise
Paul van Walsum
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The River Nile
Water@WUR 2
Water in an Urbanizing World
● Climate Change:Floods, Droughts, Urban Heat Islands
● Water Safety, Provision, & Quality
● Resource Efficiency
● Nature Based Metropolitan Solutions
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Cities are vulnerable
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Floods Droughts
Water quality Urban heat effect
80% of global economic output
70% of global energy use and energy related GHG emissions
US$90 trillion invested worldwide in urban and energy infrastructure in next 15 years
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Cities are the engines of economic growth
SPEARHEAD PROGRAM 2016-2018
Less Heat &
Dry Feet
DigIn City
Green Street
Fresh FoodCity
Healing Garden
New Sanitation: Separation at source:
Water saving and nutrient recovery
Prof. Grietje Zeeman, 2014
Water@WUR 3
Blue Growth
● Coastal Eco Productivity
● Corridor North
● Integrated Solutions Protection biodiversity,
sustainable seafood
provision, responsible
maritime activities
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TripleP@Sea Prof. Tinka Murk
Water@WUR 4
Water Quality
● Macro>Micro>Nano..
● Ecology &Technology
● River Basin to Coast to Ocean
● Climate & Circular Economy Induced
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Prof. Carolien Kroeze –
Water Systems and Global Change Group
Prof. Oene Oenema: Global by-products and wastes P flows;
Prof. Cees Buisman: P, N and C biorecovery from waste > fertile soil
Sources Quantity
Mt P / year
Animal manures 20 – 30
Sewage sludge 3 – 5
Other streams 3 – 28
Total 26 - 63
Oenema et al. 2013
60-80
%
Micropollutants in the environment
e.g. Pharmaceuticals
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Biological removal of Micropollutants:
Use of bacteria
Structural analoguePoly Chlorinated Biphenyl
ContaminantPoly Brominated Biphenyl
Literature
Structural analogue2,6-Dichloroaniline
PharmaceuticalDiclofenac
Our research
Select and enrich MP degrading bacteria
Structural analogues to initiate biological degradation
Micro-pollutant research in Wageningen
Alette Langenhoff, Nora Sutton, Tim Grotenhuis
Tap-water
treatment
facility
Post WWTP treatment:
Natural cleaning Groundwater:
Treatment at WWTP:
Treatment Drinking water:
Water born and Waste Water related Pathogens.
Research Nynke Hofstra, Nora Sutton,..
Diarrhoea
Cryptosporidium
Emissions: humans/livestock
(UNICEF/WHO 2009, Hofstra et al. 2013)
Stakeholder interaction
Stakeholder interactionTrans disciplinary research
Strategies to Solutions
Trans Disciplinary Approach
Techn
olo
gic
Socio-economicincremental leap
leap
Trans Disciplinary
4 Dimensions of Infrastructure Management
Combined water and waste flows
Low cost, flexible systems
Large scale, fixed price
systems Low involvement of end-users
Decentralised organisation
Centralised organisation
High involvement of end-users
Separated water and waste flows
Van Vliet, B.J.M. et al. 2014
modernized mixtures
centralised systems
de-centralised systems
Van Vliet, B.J.M. et al. 2014
Main activities:
Conducting innovative scientific research
Offering PhD training and education
Disseminating emerging insights, recent research results and novel technological & policy approaches to society
WIMEK is co-founder and member of the
Dutch interuniversity SENSE Research School
The Wageningen Institute for
Environment and Climate Research
WIMEK Graduate School
WIMEK Research Themes:
1. Environmental quality and sustainable natural resource management
a. Environmental system modelling and scenario development
b. Environmental solutions based on bio-physico-chemical technologies for safe and healthy reuse of (waste) water and related products
2. Environmental processes and ecosystem dynamics
3. Global and regional environmental change
4. Sustainable development and social change: actors, institutions and governance
WUR chair groups in WIMEK (1)
Environmental Sciences:
Environmental Systems Analysis (Leemans)
Water Systems and Global Change (Kroeze)
Water Resources Management (Hellegers / Ritzema)
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management (Scheffer; Koelmans)
Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management (Uijlenhoet)
Meteorology and Air Quality (Holtslag; Krol)
Soil Physics and Land Management (Ritsema; Van der Zee)
Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality (Comans)
Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology (Berendse; Kleijn)
Landscape Architecture (Van den Brink)
WUR chair groups in WIMEK (2)
Technological Sciences:
Environmental Technology (Rijnaarts; Buisman)
Environmental Microbiology (Stams; Smidt)
Toxicology (Van den Brink / Rietjens)
Biobased Chemistry and Technology (Bitter; Keesman)
Social Sciences:
Environmental Policy (Spaargaren; Bush)
Environmental Economics and Natural Resources (Van Ierland)
Water Facilities @ Wageningen
Water Facilities @ Wageningen
Kraaijenhoff van den LeurLab for Water and Sediment Dynamics
Sinderhoeve
AgriFarm
AlgaePark
The Delta Programme in the Netherlands
Delta’s worldwide
Sharing knowledge
Highlights of the Deltaprogramme1. Planning for an uncertain
future
scenario’s/adaptive delta
management, risk based
strategies
2. Institutional arrangements
5 Ds among Delta Fund and
Delta Act/ Focusing the
decision-making
3. Multi-governmental
approach
joined process of
strategy/multifunctional
measures
Problem
Participatory process
Solution
Delta Alliance Thought Leader
Info: Wim.Timmermans@wur.nl
City + Water + Landscape = Quality of living in Delta
WETSUS
European Institute for Sustainable Water
Technology
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Water@WUR
Let it Rain on You
To explore the
potential of
nature
to improve the
quality of life
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