National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM

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National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM is a public administration 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.

Report finds too much nitrogen and phosphorus in the Netherlands’ groundwater and surface water

In many places, the groundwater and surface water still contains too much nitrogen and phosphorus. As a result, the Netherlands is failing to meet the targets of the European Nitrates Directive. Due to an excess of nitrogen and phosphorus, the biological water quality in many bodies of water in the Netherlands is not sufficient, and […]

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM · 29 Nov 2024

26 Mar 2020

Researchers from The Netherlands claim to have found novel coronavirus in wastewater

The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been detected in wastewater in the Netherlands, according to RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment research. A small percentage of patients with COVID-19 have the novel coronavirus in their gastrointestinal tract, and thus excrete it in their faeces. When their stool is flushed down the toilet, it ends […]