Annual report Chair on Drinking Water Engineering 2008 - TU Delft

Waternet and TU Delft investigate innovation in water cycle
On May 27 2008 ir. Roelof Kruize, CEO of Waternet, and prof.ir. Louis de Quelerij, dean of the faculty of Civil
Engineering and Geosciences of TU Delft signed a strategic collaboration contract. The collaboration focuses
on research in innovation in the water cycle, particularly on the sectors drinking water, waste water and water
systems.
Waternet is the first water cycle company in the Netherlands. Waternet takes care of the entire water cycle:
from drinking water, sewerage and treatment of waste water to discharge of waste water effluent into surface
water. Furthermore, maintenance of ditches, lakes and ponds, advice during high ground water levels and dike
supervision are part of the tasks of Waternet. Waternet has been assigned to perform these tasks by waterboard
Amstel, Gooi en Vecht and the city of Amsterdam.
From left to right Jan Peter van der Hoek, Hans van Dijk, Roelof Kruize, Louis de Quelerij,
Ton Rosenhart
With Waternet’s ambition to shape the innovation in the water cycle and the expertise of TU Delft in the sectors
of the water cycle, this collaboration is a logical next step. The duration of the collaboration is, in first
instance, four years. The collaboration will consist of MSc work of TU Delft students at Waternet, PhD research
of employees of TU Delft and Waternet, post doc research by employees of TU Delft at Waternet, employees
of Waternet doing their MSc (in part time) at TU Delft and the use of the pilot installation at Leiduin as a “water
cycle laboratory”.
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