Moving checklist
Key-day meter readings, registering the new home and closing the old account, including overlapping tenancies and shared meters.
Plan your water moveVitens information provides the starting point for the property-level check
This Westerveld guide points to Vitens for household water information, with official confirmation for your individual property. Use the full address rather than assuming a supplier from the province. Then review who pays under the tenancy and prepare the appropriate registration or moving task with the reading taken at key handover.
Water supplier in Westerveld
Vitens
Vitens supplies the centre of Westerveld. Confirm your exact address with its address check, especially near the edge of the municipality.
About VitensArranging water
Renting in Westerveld usually means dealing with Vitens, unless your landlord arranges water for you. These three steps follow the order of a typical move: settle who holds the account, confirm and register the address with Vitens, then record the key-day reading and close the account at the home you are leaving.
Look in your Westerveld tenancy agreement for water in the rent or the service charges. If the landlord holds the Vitens account, you do not register yourself.
Run Vitens's address check with your postcode and house number, then register from the date you receive the keys with the opening meter reading.
Photograph the meter and its number on key day, submit the reading to Vitens, and report the move at your previous address separately.
The supplier
Vitens supplies drinking water across a large part of the central, eastern and northern Netherlands. Its customer tools separate registering a home, ending an old account and managing an existing contract in Mijn Vitens. For renters, the key questions are who pays the supplier, which meter belongs to the home, and which readings apply at key handover.
Vitens describes its main region as Friesland, Flevoland, Overijssel, Gelderland and Utrecht. This is not an exclusive province-level rule: other suppliers serve some border areas and parts of Utrecht. Check the actual property rather than assigning a supplier from the province alone.
Around the city
Westerveld sits in Drenthe, where Luntero matches 12 city guides to these suppliers: WMD Drinkwater (10), Vitens (2). Nearby towns supplied by Vitens share the same moving and registration rules, while the closest towns with a different company show where a supply boundary lies, which matters if your new address is near the edge of the municipality.
Living between Westerveld and one of these towns? Confirm your address with Vitens before you register.
More for your move
Water is one of the first things to arrange in a new home, but rarely the only one. Use these Luntero guides to get to know Westerveld as a place to live, find rental homes and local market data, and set up internet, check the energy label and arrange insurance for your new address.
Local FAQ
Short answers about the water company in Westerveld, registering as a renter, the supplier mix in the province and what to do during an outage.
Vitens is the drinking-water company whose service area covers the centre of Westerveld, based on the RIVM map of drinking-water suppliers, which makes it the likely supplier for most homes in Westerveld. Confirm your full address with Vitens's address check, especially near the edge of the municipality or in a new district.
No. Drinking water in the Netherlands is supplied by the regional company responsible for the address, so you cannot switch away from Vitens to a cheaper company. You pay Vitens's tariff unless your landlord arranges and charges the water.
Only if the water account is in your name. Check the tenancy agreement first: if water is included in the rent or the service charges, the landlord holds the account. Otherwise register with Vitens from the date you receive the keys, with the opening meter reading.
No. Luntero matches 12 city guides in Drenthe, divided as follows: WMD Drinkwater (10), Vitens (2). Neighbouring towns can therefore have different water companies, so check the address rather than the province.
For a fault in the mains, use the outages page or fault number of Vitens. For a leak, a broken tap or a boiler problem inside the building, contact your landlord or building manager, because Vitens is only responsible up to the water meter.
Check the full home address with the official service and review the rental terms. Where you handle the account, follow the relevant supplier process with the actual handover details.
Key-day meter readings, registering the new home and closing the old account, including overlapping tenancies and shared meters.
Plan your water moveFixed charges, usage, advance payments and the annual settlement, plus the municipal and water-board taxes that arrive separately.
Read the bills guideSearch your city, see the likely drinking-water company and jump straight to its official address check before you register.
Open the supplier finder