Environmental ‘time bomb’ warning for world’s groundwater reserves
Research reveals over half of the world’s groundwater flows could take over 100 years to respond fully to climate change
Future generations could be faced...
Need to prevent ‘Groundhog Day’ for SuDS following ‘Achieving Sustainable Drainage’ report
More needs to be done to avoid ‘Groundhog Day’ for sustainable drainage, warns surface water solutions firm ACO Water Management, following a further report...
Online brine platform aims to boost circular economy solutions for process industries
The Zero Brine project, which aims to advance circular economy business models by redesigning the value and supply chain of water and minerals through...
Collaboration will try to tackle fatberg scourge at source
Grease Contractors Association doubles membership
British Water chief executive Lila Thompson named as chair of GCA
UK utilities share their strategies at Fighting...
Summer droughts to be better managed with Great Ouse Groundwater Scheme upgrade
In a year when summer droughts reduced water stocks to levels not seen for nearly 50 years, the renewal and modernisation of the Great...
Utility makes major investment in Northumberland pumping station
The water demands of the North East are to be secured into the future, says Northumbrian Water, with the help of a major investment...
How dangerous is microplastic?
An interview with Dr. Natalia Ivleva, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, discusses her research into the...
Award will fund research into microalgal treatment of wastewater
Aqua Enviro has secured funding for a project to investigate beneficial use of algae grown as part of a wastewater tertiary treatment process.
As part...
Aerial assessment
Unmanned aerial vehicles can make an important contribution to gathering data from flood events, and estimating the damage to properties. Dr Monica Rivas Casaldo, a senior lecturer in integrated environmental monitoring at Cranfield University, offers further insight
Firm presents on sludge degassing and thermal hydrolysis
Water engineering firm Eliquo Hydrok presented at the European Biosolids & Organic Resources Conference and Exhibition
Technology aims to widen access to thermal hydrolysis
Canadian firm Lystek International announced the commercialisation of its first, low temperature, low pressure mobile Thermal Hydrolysis Processing unit (Lystek Mobile THP®)
£2m pollution fine
Thames Water has been fined £2million after raw sewage polluted two Oxfordshire streams, killing almost 150 fish
LED treatment wins contract
UK-based Typhon Treatment Systems has won its first major contract with a publically traded UK water utility for the supply of its new ultraviolet (UV) LED water treatment technology
Borders wastewater site celebrates green energy milestone
A wastewater treatment works in the Borders has become one of Scottish Water’s most self-sufficient energy sites.
Galafoot Waste Water Treatment Plant in Galashiels now...
Motor agitator minimises dead flow zones and prevents clogging, says firm
Submersible motor agitators are often used in the homogenisation and suspension of fluids. Stringy solid matter, however, which tends to form strands in wastewater...
World’s first UV LED water treatment equipment company wins major contract
UK-based Typhon Treatment Systems has won its first major contract with a publically traded UK water utility for the supply of its new ultraviolet...
River conservation is ‘blind’ without high-resolution monitoring
Scientists from the University of Portsmouth have been investigating nutrient concentrations in the Upper River Itchen, in Hampshire, UK, on behalf of Salmon &...
New nitrate monitor lowers costs, says firm
Responding to global demand for improved monitoring of nitrate in freshwater, OTT HydroMet has launched a new optical nitrate sensor, the OTT ecoN. “This...
Unconventional wastewater treatment trialled by Scottish Water
A six-month trial of Microvi’s MicroNiche Engineering (MNE) technology is taking place at Scottish Water’s Waste Water Development Centre at Bo’ness.
The technology uses specific...
Top Scottish chippie becomes champion of fatberg fight
An award-winning fish and chip shop has become an official champion of Scottish Water’s campaign to free sewers of fatbergs.
Cromars is backing the six-month...
