Information meeting additional drinking water system
More drinking water is needed in our region. Drinking water company Dunea entered into discussions with interested parties and favors an additional drinking water system with the Vliet River as its source. The municipality of Wassenaar supports this. There will be information meetings for interested parties on October 16 and 28.
Today, Dunea still manages to make sufficient and clean drinking water with its current sources the Maas and the Lek rivers and extensive purification, via the South Holland dunes. However, population growth, pollution and climate change from 2030 will require more drinking water, more purification power and more certainty of supply in dry times. Dunea is committed to saving water, but expansion is necessary, also in the long term.
In 2022, Dunea launched a quest to obtain space and water for new wells and treatment plants alongside the rivers and dunes. To this end, cooperation was immediately sought with interested parties in the region - such as the Department of Public Works, the province, municipalities and water boards. After a long and intensive research process that included investigating brackish groundwater and seawater as potential sources, Dunea is now opting, with the agreement of the stakeholders, for a drinking water system with a regional source.
It involves water from the Rhineland section of the Vliet canal, supplemented by new purification techniques at Dunea's production sites in Scheveningen, Katwijk and Monster. The new source and purifiers are expected to be able to supply 10 billion liters of drinking water per year, on top of the 85 to 90 billion liters of water Dunea already produces annually.
Physical and digital information meeting
As part of the environmental process, Dunea will soon explain the task, the participation process and the choices made so far.
- On Thursday, October 16, 2025, there will be a walk-in meeting between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dunea's headquarters at Plein van de Verenigde Naties 11-15 in Zoetermeer. There will then be an information market and the opportunity to talk with experts involved from Dunea.
- An online meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28. There will then be a presentation followed by the opportunity to ask questions.
For the walk-in meeting, Dunea appreciates advance registration; for the online meeting, registration is required. This can be done via www.dunea.nl/bijeenkomstDWT
