Sponsored Content: top tips for wastewater process optimisation
Amidst spiralling costs for energy, fuel, chemicals and just about everything else, there’s never been a better time to optimise your wastewater treatment process. Let’s take a journey through a typical site to identify areas where savings can be made.
Floating house concept earns students place in global disaster preparedness competition
A team of students from Coventry University have developed a concept for a house that can float whenever a flood approaches and shelter people for at least six weeks during catastrophic weather.
Pumped up for action
A new trio of sludge pumps for rental or purchase has been added to Flygt’s 2600 drainage pump series.
The portable multi-purpose models have been...
Sludge process participates in mine water treatment trial
Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS) is taking part in trials to show the treatability of the mine water from the historical closed tin mine at...
Going underground: Innovative DAF system supports stylish exterior in Swansea
Wastewater technology and services expert Jacopa has completed the £2.5m design and installation of a DAF system for Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s landmark Swansea...
Rolling back to move forward
A case study highlighting the importance of application version control for water and wastewater SCADA systems, from Trihedral, a developer of HMI/SCADA software for...
Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foams in the EU
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says it is bringing forward a proposal for an EU-wide restriction on all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in...
WWEM conference focuses on priority pollutants
Laboratory analysts will congregate in Telford on 2 and 3 November to focus on the testing, monitoring and analysis of water, wastewater and environmental...
Sponsored content: More Landia mixers for Jersey’s Bellozanne Sewage Treatment Works
Landia has won an order from Doosan Enpure to supply and install a Jet Mixing system for the new Bellozanne Sewage Treatment Works on...
How digital technologies contribute to universal drinking water
Digital water technologies have an important role in ensuring universal access to safe drinking water by 2030, that is according to a new report...
PFAS persists through wastewater treatment, may enter crops
PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a group of more than 4,700 fully synthetic compounds that are widely used in industrial and manufacturing processes and found...
Surge vessels installed for Southern Water
IN February Quantum Engineering Developments (QED) completed installation of ten surge vessels for Southern Water to replace eight vessels in the Thanet area of...
Noise logger trial pinpoints 115 leaks
A technology trial involving installation of 295 Enigma3m remote correlating noise loggers in a water distribution network in the State of Johor, Malaysia, has successfully cut net night flow by a third. Yoo Sun Chan, general manager, Primayer Sdn Bhd, and Roger Ironmonger, managing director, Primaryer, explain how the work was carried out .
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...
Select committee launches enquiry into UK nitrates pollution
The Environmental Audit Committee launched an inquiry into nitrates pollution in the UK in early December. The Committee said it would consider the nature,...
Complaint launched after government misses legal deadline on environmental protections
On 1 November green groups submitted a letter of complaint to Defra after the Government failed to meet a legal deadline on setting new...
New EA contract helps protect water resources
The Environment Agency has awarded a 4-year contract to Meteor Communications for the provision of telemetry systems, services and data hosting for water quality monitoring systems
Scraping a living
ODOUR reduction is one of the tasks for sludge handling technology installed at a Thames Water sewage works in London.
The water company has invested...
Tracking emerging contaminants
The list of potentially hazardous contaminants in drinking water and the environment continues to grow. At Aqua Enviro's European Waste Water Management Conference (EWWM)...
Runoff recycling is good to go
Zero Waste Scotland has partnered with Scottish Water to turn grit that is found in the wastewater system into a valuable raw building material...
