Water treatment processes using technologies such as activated carbon, ozonisation, UV/H₂O₂ and membrane filtration are robust, but new organic substances continue to pose a challenge. That emerged from the fourth cycle of the long-running research programme of the dune water companies which was recently completed with KWR and The Water Laboratory.
For twenty years now, KWR has been working with Dunea, PWN, Waternet, Evides Waterbedrijf (DPWE) and The Water Laboratory to study the effectiveness of treatment processes in pilot plants for removing organic microcontaminants from drinking water sources. The research is being conducted in five-year cycles as part of the DPWE research programme. The fourth robustness cycle has now been completed.
