Highlights
Highlights 2025
Shaping the future of water
25,000+ water professionals and 900 exhibiting companies were present at Aquatech Amsterdam. Entrepreneurs have presented their new products and services on the show floor and on the AquaStages.
Overall winner Innovation Award 2025
A new innovation developed in the Netherlands that can sustainably remove micro-pollutants during wastewater treatment has been crowned the Overall Winner of this year’s Aquatech Innovation Award. The development by consulting engineers Royal HaskoningDHV is the result of collaboration with Wageningen University.
Known as ‘Aurea’, the solution combines the best properties of biological activated carbon filtration and oxidative treatment to remove a wide range of organic micro-pollutants. It is designed for use in wastewater treatment plants, drinking water production sites, and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, helping to meet the objectives of the European Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD).
