Using microorganisms to appraise water quality within minutes
Technology allows users with camera phones to track the health of aquatic microorganisms
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) say they...
Wolds collaboration aims to improve water and soil quality in East Yorkshire AR
A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil...
Could recycled wastewater offer the UK an alternative to imported fertilisers?
Research at Cranfield University, in collaboration with Severn Trent and Microvi Biotech, is leveraging the ability of bacteria to recover nutrients from wastewater.
The recovered...
Mobile technology firm launches IoT offering for the water industry
Mobile technology firm Vodafone has launched a new IoT-based product "to help water companies improve monitoring and detection systems, increase efficiency, reduce wastage, and...
Water company performance survey seeks supplier views
Water sector supply chain companies are being invited to share their experiences of working with UK utilities over the past 12 months.
British Water’s annual...
MIT group uses graphene foam to filter uranium from water
Some kinds of water pollution, such as algal blooms and plastics that foul rivers, lakes, and marine environments, lie in plain sight.
£5.2m funding for diamond-enabled electrolysis of industrial wastewater
As part of the UK government’s new Industrial Strategy, £5.2m funding has been announced to support the University of Warwick to work with Element...
New web-based tool targets water leaks
By identifying and targeting water leakages quickly at a local level, a new tool developed by engineering consultancy HR Wallingford will seemingly assist water companies to deliver on their regulatory targets to reduce reported leakage levels.
Urgent improvements in water security needed to achieve climate resilience, warns research group
Urgent steps to improve water security are needed across the world as part of measures to increase climate resilience, the University of Oxford-led REACH research programme warned on 3 August as it published a new, interdisciplinary report.
SEPA warns water scarcity still impacting Scotland, despite heavy rainfall
The latest weekly Water Scarcity Situation Report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) shows that, despite heavy rainfall and thundery showers across much of mainland Scotland, the majority of the country is still seeing the impacts of water scarcity.
Water industry “shifting to outcome-based strategy”
The water sector is moving towards an outcome-focused approach to the way it plans and invests in environmental solutions, in the view of Phil...
Irrigation plays a large role in increasing salinity in global freshwaters
A large part of global food production is dependent on irrigation, and new research from Utrecht University appears to show that, when irrigation water...
Sponsored Content: Water jetting academy makes COVID offer
The Water Jetting Training Academy in Poole, Dorset, is the first to provide a full range of facility-based training rather than rely on courses being delivered at client premises.
Sponsored Content: Barnhurst STW – EMS grit removal plant
EMS began to install a new grit removal plant at Barnhurst STW for Severn Trent Water in May 2019 that was intended to replace six off conventional grit rakes (nodding donkeys) and a belt conveyor that transported the grit to the grit collection area.
Big data.. Opportunity or needless complexity?
Water security can be defined as the availability of a sufficient quantity and quality of water to sustain livelihoods, health, socio-economic development and ecosystems. Water managers need timely access to reliable, insightful, defensible data, but with the volume and speed of data now available, will existing data infrastructure be able to cope?
Sponsored Content: Sludge dewatering efficiency
With increasing demand for reliable dewatering of effluent in municipal sewage treatment plants, GEA has stepped up with its class-leading environmental decanters designed for high clarification performance and maximum solid thickening.
Sponsored Content: Global health and safety standard for drainage expert
National drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group has achieved ISO 45001, the world's first global ISO standard for occupational health and safety.
Sponsored Content: Reusing wash water at equipment hire firm
MSE Systems has provided equipment hire firm Sunbelt Rentals with a fully automated wastewater treatment system following a successful rental and testing period in 2020.
The firm was asked to provide a system that would dramatically reduce the amount of fresh water used by Sunbelt Rentals when cleaning the dirty Trakway panels ready for use by new customers. Trakway is a series of panels laid down to create access to fields and sites that are usually inaccessible to vehicles and pedestrians.
Slim SAF meets SEPA spec
Technology from wastewater treatment specialist WPL has been selected by Scottish Water to deliver enhanced ammonia removal at a village treatment works.
Raising sights on CSOs
Ofwat has written to all water companies in England and Wales calling on them to meet growing expectations about the use of storm overflows and signalling that further action is needed.