Selecting the appropriate reverse osmosis system
Stuart Malcolm, technical sales manager for SOCOTEC’s Water Treatment & Equipment team, answers a series of frequently asked questions regarding the importance of selecting...
Urban Drinking Water Challenge 2018 announces winners from USA, India and Bangladesh
The 2018 winners of the Urban Drinking Water Challenge, a global innovation competition to deploy and scale decentralized drinking water solutions, were announced on...
Firm reactivates its first spent carbon from a drinking water facility
Wigan-based CPL Activated Carbons, has successfully reactivated its first batch of ‘green list’ spent carbon from a drinking water treatment facility.
Activated carbons are used...
Salty reception for proposed New Forest desalination plant
Plans by Southern Water to build a £600 million desalination plant in the New Forest have come under fire from conservationists and other local...
Sponsored Content: Custom wedge gate valves
Valves expert T-T Flow writes: When there was a requirement for custom wedge gate valves to facilitate the transition to new metric pipework at a major water treatment works, T-T Flow stepped in to provide the perfect solution that would also maintain the ability to isolate flow.
New water treatment technology for organic pollutants
Sponsored content: Arvia developed and refined a unique next-generation water treatment process, called Nyex Rosalox™, designed to target and destroy persistent organic pollutants.
Technological breakthroughs driving growth in water quality monitoring
Developments in solid-state electronics and small high-powered light sources (like the LEDs in this image) have supported rapid progress with optical sensor technology during...
Decontamination that stays upright
WHEN deploying tall equipment such as water filtration systems in unstructured, off-road environments, there is always the danger that it might fall over, or...
Q&A: Delivering holistic solutions to solve water challenges
To tie-in with BlueTech Forum 2022, Kamakshi Sharma, director of marketing and strategy for water technology company Aquatech International, shares her views on data-driven...
Victorian era “engineering jewel of the north-east” gets 21st century refit
A historic Aberdeenshire waterworks is getting a major £52 million revamp more than 150 years after its construction was hailed a jewel in the...
Rainwater is no longer drinkable thanks to PFAS, say researchers
A perspective article by researchers from Stockholm University and ETH Zurich, published in August in Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that environmental contamination by...
Siemens equips desalination plants in Saudi Arabia with process automation
Siemens has received a follow-up order from the A3C consortium (Rawafid Industrial, Advanced Water Technology, SETE and Al Fatah) to equip eight seawater desalination...
Firms achieve first drinking water spray lining in AMP7
Morrison Water Services, a part of M Group Services’ Water Division, is working in partnership with Yorkshire Water to deliver a drinking water...
Harvesting water from the air: Finding inspiration from beetles and spiders
A novel approach to capturing water vapour from the air attempts to mimic spider's webs and the bodies of Namib desert beetles.
It involves the...
Reverse osmosis system addresses firms with large purified water demands
Veolia Water Technologies (Veolia) has announced (3 August) the release of six new models in its SIRION™ Mega range of reverse osmosis systems. SIRION...
Tackling metaldehyde with powdered activated carbon
Ejector solutions firm Transvac Systems offers a recap on the solutions used to remove metaldehyde from water, and its own product offering in this...
Consultancy appoints global PFAS expert
Professional services firm Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting and engineering services, has welcomed Dr Ian Ross to its PFAS (poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances)...
Sand filter cleaning systems purchased by Essex & Suffolk Water
Essex & Suffolk Water – which provides water services to 1.8 million people – has chosen CDEnviro equipment to replace its existing sand treatment...
EA water quality report “woefully short on action” to control runoff pollution
An Environment Agency (EA) state-of-the-nation update, warning that 86% of England’s water bodies fail to meet ‘good’ status, is strong on facts but falls woefully short on action
Edinburgh water treatment site houses ‘hidden jewel’ of unique hydro-electric installation, says utility
It is described as a “hidden jewel” - most people in Scotland’s capital will have no idea it exists let alone what it...
