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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

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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

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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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