Sponsored Content: Pulsed airlift sludge transfer
Te-Tech has introduced a new generation of pulsed airlift units, and says its clients are seeing the benefits of the technology over conventional progressive cavity pumps for transferring primary and secondary sewage sludges.
Sponsored Content: Flood and drainage events co-loacate
We would like to thank and welcome Schneider Electric as a major sponsor of this year's Floodex.
Sponsored Content: A faculty for facing down flood risk
T-T Pumps was enlisted to design, supply and install the equipment to meet the demands of the Lowestoft flood risk management project.
Sponsored Content: Cunning treatment for surface water runoff at production facility
The Eastways project in Witham, Essex, was an existing industrial unit that was being upgraded to include the construction of a new food production facility with internal offices, a new site entrance, and a new vehicle turning area. This project needed a drainage strategy suitable for an industrial site, to control surface water runoff and remove pollution.
Instrument-lite assay
A technique has been demonstrated that allows users with camera phones to track the health of aquatic microorganisms, seemingly allowing water quality to be appraised within minutes.
The rise of smart water
It's a multi-billion-dollar (per annum) market, explains Dr Mikael Khan, business development manager with consultancy firm Aqua Enviro.
Sponsored Content: Environmentally friendly Spill Control
Fentex Limited has spent a number of years developing an environmentally friendly alternative to Spill Control products often required by Pollution Prevention Guidelines, ISO standards and other regulations.
SEPA has surface water in its sights
The take-up of flood hazard mapping by SEPA will provide a clearer indication of surface water (also known as pluvial) flood risk in Scotland, says the agency.
Sponsored content: Waste water treatment key to nutrient neutrality equation
With a nutrient neutral approach to new property developments expected to become more widespread across England, increasing numbers of developers are giving closer consideration to wastewater treatment, writes Andrew Baird, technical director at water recycling specialist WPL.
Pilot plant cuts AAD emissions
A common operational problem with advanced AD plants is high loading of digesters, and indeed partial overloading in some cases. A high concentration of dry solids and high viscosity can result in gas entrapment.
Flushing out lockdown trends
The team identified a spike in consumption of easily abused prescription opioids and anti-anxiety sedatives between March and June 2020, while some illicit drug use plummeted.
Cake to liquid in minutes
Yorkshire Water Knostrop is a large wastewater treatment plant servicing a population of 800,000 people.
EA issues effluent discharge compliance waiver to help utilities cope with chemicals shortage
The Environment Agency has published a regulatory waiver exempting water firms from the need to comply with the usual permit conditions that apply to...
Veolia provides Glycol runoff treatment plant at Heathrow
Veolia Water Technologies UK (VWT UK) has recently completed a glycol removal plant at Heathrow Airport, seemingly the first of its kind to treat...
Clarifier cuts treatment costs and improves solids removal, says firm
Water technology firm Xylem has unveiled what it describes as "a breakthrough solution to support the efficient removal of solids in water treatment applications"....
Improved analytics for cloud-based water intelligence platform
Enhancements were recently made to KETOS, a cloud-based software platform said to bring water intelligence to customers across agriculture, industrial and municipal operations.
The platform...
Human waste contaminating urban water leads to ‘superbug’ spread, says study
Contamination of urban lakes, rivers and surface water by human waste is creating pools of 'superbugs' in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), according...
Registration opens for ‘virtual’ WWEM and AQE 2021
Long-established fixtures on the environmental monitoring calendar, both AQE (Air Quality & Emissions) and WWEM (Water Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring) events will take place...
£2 million contract for final effluent monitoring in Scotland
Meteor Communications has been awarded a multi-year shared framework agreement by Scottish Water for the provision of multi-parameter wastewater quality final effluent monitoring. The...
Pulling water out of the air: Tel Aviv study yields potability suprise
In a seemingly first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that water generated from the air in the heart of an urban area, the city of Tel...
