Real-time access to Antarctic tide data
One of the most important challenges, when designing monitoring facilities in remote locations, is resilience. Remote tide gauge systems operate in extremely harsh environments...
Post pandemic environmental monitoring
By Matt Dibbs, Managing Director of Meteor Communications, a firm that designs, builds and installs remote environmental monitoring systems.
The Coronavirus pandemic presented significant challenges...
Major role for wastewater epidemiology in tackling Covid-19, says group
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has a significant part to play in identifying ‘silent’ Covid-19 cases in the community, research presented at the latest Water Action...
Satellite telemetry supports flood protection in Scotland
Water monitoring expert OTT Hydromet explains some of the practicalities behind a recent project
In recent years the development of flood warning systems has benefited...
Czech town welcomes wastewater treatment installation
A new wastewater treatment system installed in a town in the Czech Republic will protect valued fishing ponds and raise the quality to required...
Latest learnings from the Water Action Platform
Assessing risk and determining responses to Covid-19 were major themes of the most recent Water Action Platform webinar which took place on 9 July....
Finnish utility trials asset investment planning software
Finnish multi-utility Alva is the first in Scandinavia to trial Ovarro’s PIONEER asset investment planning (AIP) software. The six-month trial, which started in May,...
No shortage of water as UK collects less than 2% of rainfall, insists GMB...
There is a shortage of investment to collect enough water to supply a growing population and have adequate stocks to cope with the periodic...
Fish pass construction project resumes in Worcestershire
In early July, environmental engineering company Land & Water announced it was set to resume the construction of one of four fish passes along...
Sponsored content: Introducing two new Mecana Systems in the UK
Eliquo Hydrok have added two new Mecana technologies to their existing Pile Cloth Media Filtration (PCMF) systems available for the UK Water and Wastewater markets
Bringing people together to deliver clean water in Tanzania
Situated in the mountains of north-western Tanzania, the rural district of Karagwe was once an influential kingdom where wealth was measured in cattle. While...
WJA system backs water jetters carrying out Covid-19 essential services
The Water Jetting Association has put in place an essential services notification system to assist its members in confirming that they have the right...
Virtual reality training wins water industry innovation award
Drainage and utility specialist Lanes Group plc has won the Institute of Water of Innovation Award 2020 for the South East Region for leading...
Monitoring for flood management
Climate projections for the UK suggest that rainfall will increase in winter and decrease in summer, and that individual rainfall events may increase in intensity, especially in winter. This paradigm predicates an increased risk of flooding.
From field to faucet
Dr Akmez Nabeerasool, senior product manager at industrial water recycling specialist Arvia Technology, discusses advances in the post-treatment purification of water polluted by persistent traces of agrochemicals
The long road to recognition
Civil engineer and Chartered Water & Environmental Manager Simon Crowther has both personal experience of flooding (as "victim" in 2007), and expertise in tackling it, as director of Flood Protection Solutions, which he founded in 2012. Here, he offers his own thoughts on the sector's current shape and direction
SuDS helps secure appeal
A proposed housing development in Bexhill has been given the green light following the agreement of a suitable drainage strategy, overturning a June 2019 decision to refuse planning permission given the site’s proximity to Pevensey Levels SAC.
Partnership addresses potable priorities
As part of its National Disinfection Programme, Irish Water is investing over €65 million in the upgrade and standardisation of disinfection systems currently installed in over 864 public drinking water treatment plants, pumping stations and reservoirs.
Sponsored Content: Clamp-on flow meters: Installation guidance
With the recent high growth in the ultrasonic clamp flow metering market, many users are turning to the clamp on meter for a quick and easy solution for often difficult to measure, fluid applications.
Sponsored Content: Nuclear reactor drains un-blocked
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have used new pipe cleaning technology to solve persistent drain blockage problems at a nuclear power station.
