Leiden University

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Leiden University is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

Study finds common insecticide thiacloprid damages freshwater ecosystems

The pesticide thiacloprid turns out to be more harmful than previously thought. It can disrupt the lives of freshwater invertebrates and their communities, upsetting the balance and functioning of entire freshwater ecosystems. This is shown by ecologist Henrik Barmentlo and colleagues in their article published in Ecology Letters. In an earlier study, Henrik Barmentlo and his fellow researchers of […]

Leiden University · 23 Apr 2025

14 Dec 2021

Pressure on river management leads to more frequent flooding

In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because of flood control, urbanization and increased dependence upon floodplains and […]