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...
Greener MOF cuts water treatment costs
A change in the way a metal-organic framework (MOF) is processed has substantially reduced its estimated energy use and production cost while retaining its...
Parched UK confronts growing challenge of water resilience
With almost three-quarters of England in drought and conditions also severe across Wales and parts of Scotland, the UK's exceptionally dry summer is intensifying...
Water quality data informs management of River Medway flow
Around 10 years of continuous water quality data has been generated as a result of a stipulation in a water abstraction licence on the...
Smart rooftop rainwater systems could help cities tackle extreme heat
Collecting rainwater from rooftops and using it to spray buildings during hot weather could help cities cut air conditioning use, lower urban temperatures and...
How digitalisation is reshaping the UK pump industry
Wayne Rose explores how digital product information, connected technologies and AI are transforming the design, operation and maintenance of pumping systems.
Digitalisation is rapidly reshaping...
Just 14% of England’s surface waters achieve good ecological status
Only 14.3% of England’s rivers, lakes and estuaries have achieved good ecological status in the latest Environment Agency classifications, prompting environmental groups to call...
UK company claims commercial breakthrough for MOF-based atmospheric water harvesting
A UK company has unveiled what it describes as the first commercially available atmospheric water harvesting system to use metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to extract...
New £5m competition targets hidden leaks in homes and businesses
Ofwat has opened the second round of its Water Efficiency Lab, offering up to £5 million in funding to support technologies that can prevent,...
PFAS-eating insects among the finalists of the Water Discovery Challenge
Twenty projects have been named finalists of the Water Innovation Fund’s second Water Discovery Challenge, which is intended to accelerate the development and adoption...
UK utilities support burst rising mains detection initiative
Condition-monitoring specialist Samotics has developed a new capability to detect burst rising mains, one of the wastewater network’s most challenging and least visible failures....
Automated floodgates help deliver IED secondary containment
Sponsored content: This article contains sponsored content.
As UK water and sewerage companies progress Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) improvement programmes, secondary containment is becoming an...
Ban the molecule or manage the risk? Diverging PFAS policies are shaping the technology...
Matthew Fall, Technology Analyst with market intelligence firm IDTechEx explains more about the impact of the differing approaches to the PFAS problem, a topic...
Ofwat backs national framework for citizen-led river monitoring
A national framework that intends to bring citizen-collected environmental data into mainstream catchment management is set to move into its next phase after the...
