New flood preparedness platform launched as government targets 200,000 properties
A new online platform bringing together flood risk information, weather alerts and practical advice has been launched by the Environment Agency, alongside a government...
Mobile training facility takes instrumentation on the road
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Process instrumentation specialist VEGA is taking its distinctive VEGATRUCK mobile training facility on a four-week tour of...
Predictive modelling to support Thames water-quality monitoring
A water-quality monitoring programme involving Kingston University will combine chemical analysis, environmental sampling and predictive modelling to assess pollution risks along the River Thames,...
Group celebrates four decades of flow and level measurement innovation
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Pulsar Measurement is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, marking four decades of providing flow and level measurement...
Squaring the circle: Bringing predictability to nature-based treatment
A project from United Utilities aims to combine nature-based wastewater treatment with monitoring, diagnostics and decision-support technology, in a bid to improve the predictability...
Global water sector gathers in Glasgow with resilience and technology in focus
Around 10,000 water professionals are expected in Glasgow this week as one of the sector’s largest international gatherings puts climate resilience, resource recovery and...
UK challenge explores off-grid alternatives to septic tanks
A new UK challenge is offering funding to councils, environmental organisations and other bodies to investigate whether self-contained sanitation technologies could provide an alternative...
Cold-air sludge dryer targets smaller wastewater treatment works
A heat-pump-based sludge drying system aimed at smaller wastewater treatment works is being promoted in the UK as a means of reducing sludge volumes...
Fibre network enlisted to detect Southern Water leaks
Southern Water is to trial technology that turns Openreach’s fibre-optic telecoms network into a distributed sensor for detecting leaks in nearby water mains.
The water...
Researchers recover reusable fluorine from PFAS and fluoropolymer waste
A team of scientists led by the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan has developed a rapid new way to recycle PFAS, recovering valuable...
AI boom raises prospect of new surge in PFAS production
Rapid growth in AI infrastructure could contribute to a substantial expansion in global production of PFAS, according to new research from chemicals campaign group...
United Utilities deploys 330 smart pumps in CSO programme
United Utilities is deploying 330 intelligent wastewater pumping systems across north-west England as part of its programme to reduce storm-overflow spills, in what's said...
Inescapable? new book sizes up the toxic legacy of PFAS
The title of F. Marina Schauffler’s Inescapable offers a nod to both the physical characteristics of PFAS and the predicament into which their widespread...
Citizen science survey to assess summer impacts on UK and Irish rivers
The impacts of summer drought, extreme heat and pollution on rivers across the UK and Ireland are to be assessed in a week-long citizen...
€400m wastewater programme targets Sea of Marmara pollution
Türkiye and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have agreed an approximately €400 million investment programme centred on advanced biological wastewater treatment, as the...
Water Breakthrough Challenge 7 will award £50m to accelerate transformational innovation
The Water Innovation Fund has launched the seventh Water Breakthrough Challenge, which will award up to £50 million to collaborative innovations that tackle the...
Councils urged to join up climate adaptation and net zero
Infrastructure being developed to cut emissions should be designed from the outset to withstand future flooding, heat and water stress, according to new research...
Wastewater treatment risks shifting microplastics problem from water to land, APPG report warns
Wastewater treatment is acting as a major pathway for microplastics into agricultural soils and potentially the food system, according to a new parliamentary report...
‘First-of-its-kind’ citizen science study estimates 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water enter Lower River...
Around 600 million litres of sewage-contaminated water are estimated to enter the River Roding and its tributaries every year via unpermitted and previously unmonitored...
Precast storm tanks join AMP8 rollout
Water-management products manufacturer Marshalls Civils & Drainage has been appointed to a £6 million Severn Trent framework to supply precast concrete storm tanks as...
