NewDawaco Phrea™, the new version of Dawaco, is available from October 2026. The successor to Dawaco GW, Datalab and BROLab. Read the news →

Dawaco B.V. · software and services for water

Every drop counts.

Dawaco supplies the software and the services for groundwater and ecology, from the field to the report, built on thirty years of domain knowledge. With one point of contact.

  • 30 years of domain knowledge
  • 100+ data holders helped since 2019
  • groundwater and ecology

Film · How Dawaco works: from well to BRO (2 min)With transcript →

A short film about working with Dawaco Phrea™, the new version of Dawaco: collecting, validating, modelling, asking questions and delivering to the BRO. Dutch voice-over, with English and Dutch captions in the player. All screens show demonstration data.

Music: Luces de Neón – FiftySounds, www.fiftysounds.com

What we do

Software and services from one partner.

You decide what you do yourself and what you leave to us. Software and service come from the same partner, with one point of contact from measurement to BRO.

Groundwater solutions

Dawaco Phrea™: from well to registry

One system for your entire monitoring network: wells and pumping wells, measurement series, lab quality, time-series models and the BRO chain, in both directions. As SaaS or on your own server, with your data in the EU. Available from October 2026.

Groundwater at Dawaco
Ecology solutions

Dawaco Ecologie: from monitoring plan to WFD

Monitoring-plan management, biology, chemistry, AquoKit, validation and reporting for surface water and the WFD. With the latest TWN list, without manual work.

Ecology at Dawaco

Services: we take the work over

All services
  • BRO delivery service

    Analysis, a step-by-step plan and delivery with a final check, for municipalities, provinces, water boards and drinking-water companies.

    About the BRO delivery service
  • Network management, field to registry

    Logger installation and read-out, validation and delivery, fully managed for you.

    About network management
  • Implementation and training

    A fixed five-step method: from evaluation and design to set-up and training of your team.

    To the working method
  • Helpdesk and expert advice

    A helpdesk and customer service for your questions, and expert advice when you need it.

    About support and advice

Some functions are available as an add-on module.

Dawaco Phrea

News · product launch

The new version of Dawaco, available from October 2026.

Dawaco Phrea replaces Dawaco GW, Datalab and BROLab: one web-based platform for your entire monitoring network, from well to registry.

From field to report

Your monitoring data, in one cycle.

At every step you work with our software, and at most steps you can also leave the work to us. Software for groundwater and ecology; services for your groundwater network and the BRO.

The cycle of your monitoring data: acquisition, management, validation, analysis and reporting Five steps in a continuous cycle. The list next to this image says, for each step, what the software does and what our service does.

The software lines describe Dawaco Phrea™, available from October 2026, unless another product is named.

  1. Acquisition

    SoftwareField rounds and hand measurements with the FieldForm field app; loggers are collected automatically.

    ServiceNetwork management from field to registry: logger installation and read-out.

  2. Management

    SoftwareOne administration for wells, screens, pumping wells and measurement series.

    ServiceSwitching with proof: a trial migration with a comparison report first.

  3. Validation

    SoftwareThe raw measurement is always kept; every correction has a reason and can be undone.

    ServiceValidation as part of fully managed network management.

  4. Analysis

    SoftwareTime-series models with Pastas, lab quality tested against standards, and an AI assistant that answers from your own measurements. The judgement stays with the hydrologist.

    ServiceImplementation, training and expert advice.

  5. Reporting

    SoftwareThe BRO chain in both directions, checked before it leaves; WFD reporting with Dawaco Ecologie.

    ServiceBRO delivery service: analysis, a step-by-step plan and delivery with a final check.

Some functions are available as an add-on module. BRO: GMW and GLD as standard; GMN, GAR and FRD as add-on modules.

Dawaco at a glance

Thirty years of domain knowledge, in the BRO chain since 2019.

A Dutch team in Culemborg, with a German development partner. Implementation, training, a helpdesk and user days come with it. Our story

30years
of domain knowledge in groundwater software, since the first Dawaco in the 1990s
100+data holders
helped with their BRO deliveries, since the BRO implementation team of 2019
2disciplines
groundwater and ecology, one partner
EUhosting
Dawaco Phrea as SaaS with your data in the EU, or on your own server
  1. 1990s

    The first Dawaco

    Royal Haskoning releases the first version of Dawaco

  2. 2009

    Datalab

    developed by Waterlabs

  3. 2019

    BRO implementation team

    more than 100 data holders helped

  4. 31-12-2022

    Dawaco B.V.

    takes over the Dawaco activities from Royal HaskoningDHV

  5. October 2026

    Dawaco Phrea™

    the new version of Dawaco

In practice · before Dawaco Phrea

Provincie Fryslân: more than 180,000 BRO messages

In the BRO pilot the province started in 2019 with our team (then Waterlabs), first the wells, then the corrections and finally the groundwater levels went to the registry. Almost the complete history of the network is now in it.

Read the story

“The pilot phase was long and at times very intensive, but I am so glad we chose this route!”

Johan Mulder, BRO coordinator, Provincie Fryslân, on the BRO pilot from 2019 (translated from Dutch)

Organisations that work with Dawaco

Drinking-water companies, provinces, water boards, municipalities, environmental agencies and consultancies work with Dawaco.

  • Dunea
  • Oasen
  • Brabant Water
  • Evides
  • Provincie Flevoland
  • Provincie Groningen
  • Provincie Drenthe
  • Provincie Fryslân
  • Provincie Limburg
  • Gemeente Groningen
  • Gemeente Tholen
  • Gemeente Oss
  • OFGV
  • Socotech
  • Geofoxx
  • Waterschap Limburg
  • Waterschap Rijn en IJssel
  • Waterschap Rivierenland
  • Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe
  • Waterschap Vechtstromen
  • Wetterskip Fryslân

News and insights

The latest from Dawaco.

Product news, user days and knowledge from practice. All news