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...
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...
