Fines issued after waste illegally used for flood defence
A waste company, one of its directors and a tenant farmer involved in the illegal deposit of waste on protected land in an Essex...
‘Continuous’ thermal hydrolysis AD plant to be built for UK water utility
Water treatment technology firm Doosan Enpure has secured a competitively tendered ‘Design and Build’ contract, valued in excess of £20 million, with Severn Trent...
New database details pollutants in virtually all US public water systems
A database has been set up to aggregate and analyse data from almost 50,000 public water systems in all 50 states of the US,...
Water quality platform works with smartphone interface
Water monitoring specialist In-Situ describes its Aqua TROLL 600 as a customizable, powerful multiparameter sonde. Combining "industry-leading" water quality sensors with smartphone mobility, the...
Overtopping event scheduled for 2018 in Cumbria
Water management firm HR Wallingford is organising an event called Protections 2018, the 3rd International Conference on Protection against Overtopping, which is taking place...
Reverse osmosis system addresses firms with large purified water demands
Veolia Water Technologies (Veolia) has announced (3 August) the release of six new models in its SIRION™ Mega range of reverse osmosis systems. SIRION...
Butterfly valve for long-distance water transport
To round off its existing range of butterfly valves, the KSB Group has launched the new Aporis double-offset butterfly valve with elastomer sealing element....
£500k investment for new Norfolk wetland water treatment facility
A brand new wetland is to be created in Norfolk, funded by Anglian Water and created in partnership with Norfolk Rivers Trust and the...
French recycling and recovery firm to modernise effluent plant in Cameroon
Suez has won the contract to modernise and extend the effluent treatment plant at the refinery of the National Refining Company (SO.NA.RA) in Limbé,...
50,000-litres-a-day leak spotted with smart meters
A huge leak which was losing 50,000 litres of water a day has been repaired – thanks to smart meters.
Thames Water engineers repaired the...
UV lining is highway drainage first for motorway improvement
Lanes Group is implementing what is said to be the first project to extensively line highway drainage pipes as part of a Smart Motorway...
Treated graywater better for arid environments than non-treated, say researchers
Reusing graywater in dry areas may require treatment for more efficient irrigation in arid, sandy soils, according to a new study published in Chemosphere...
Wigan heat installer fined for water main incident in Blackburn
United Utilities has been awarded £2,000 legal costs after a heat pump installation company drilled into a water main and flooded a road and...
Flower show exhibit demonstrates how to ‘slow the flow’
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Visitors to the RHS Tatton Flower Show (19-23 July) will see how the landscaping around their homes can play a vital role in preventing...
Science award for biomaterial that filters out micro-pollutants
A granular adsorbent capable of the specific binding and removing of target micro-pollutants from wastewater has won a prestigious materials science award.
Apparently capable of...
Opportunities in Oman, finds British Water
A UK delegation to the Sultanate of Oman, organised by Intec Export Intelligence and British Water, has been hailed a success by both bodies....
Prepared foods maker opts for durable wastewater aeration system
Roberts of Port Dinorwic, the family-owned food manufacturer, has introduced a new Landia aeration system to enhance its wastewater process.
Based at a ten-acre site...
Young engineer who started flood protection firm offers tips for business owners
A man whose family home was destroyed by the 2007 floods when he was just 13, leading him to set up his own flood...
New abstraction app a “game changer” for water industry
Lanes Utilities has developed an app that it says promises to revolutionise the way water abstraction is carried out by wastewater companies.
The app pinpoints...
Non-contacting flow measurement in Milwaukee deep tunnel system
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) serves a population of 1.1 million across 28 communities on the shore of Lake Michigan. Since 1994, MMSD has...
