Five ways to boost boiler house efficiency
With budget constraints and an ever increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, the need to enhance productivity, cut maintenance workloads and improve system safety...
Innovation awards winners announced at BlueTech Forum
A meter-to-customer software and services platform and an advanced self-cleaning filter were named as two of the most innovative technologies in the water industry...
Alkalinity and herpetology tests safeguard aquatic life at London Zoo
To help ensure optimum water quality for all its aquatic species, London Zoo has opted for water testing equipment from Gateshead based water...
Biodegradable quick test reveals blue-green algae toxins in swimming water
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku have developed an easy-to-use and affordable blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) test. The testing device...
Commons Select Committee calls for action to address flood prevention failings
The Environmental Audit Committee published a report on 9 June which found that the Government is failing to protect communities at risk of flooding.
Criticism...
Custom packaged plant cuts costs for delivery hub
A storage yard and delivery depot in Hampshire was fitted with a specially designed packaged treatment plant when the existing system could not cope...
Packaged RBCs help meet discharge consents in south-west Wales
Jacopa has delivered two of its packaged rotating biological contactors (RBCs) to help a wastewater treatment plant in rural south-west Wales meet a more...
North-west forum looks at improving water quality in urban areas
A two-day meeting of water management experts and policy-makers has concluded at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. The event, ‘WATER WORKS...
Leak detection saves millions
Danish water leak detection specialist Leif Koch A/S has used HWM's PermaNet to save millions of krone for Denmark’s largest utility company HOFOR. PermaNet...
Rapid sewer assessment tool
MeasurIT Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of a groundbreaking acoustic sewer inspection tool - the SL-RAT™ - which provides rapid sewer assessment...
Fluorescent device offers quick ‘scan’ of water potability
Experts at the University of Birmingham have developed a "unique" device that could save lives around the globe by quickly and simply testing whether...
Storms, floods, fires – league table highlights biggest threats to business continuity in 2016...
Whether it was a fire that brought a halt to a bustling city centre, structural damage to a bridge that diverted 80,000 commuters daily...
Digester options assist with long life
With the advent of the new AMP6 TOTEX cost requirements taking precedence in assessing new tank and Anaerobic Digester installations for the Water Utility...
Aeration system saves malt maker £37k
A new aeration system has increased production and saved tens of thousands of pounds in energy for one of Europe's largest malt makers. Simpsons...
Scraper maker claims cost edge
HALF-bridge scrapers made by A&J Fabtech rotate around a central pivot in circular settlement tanks and are said to provide a cost effective option...
Greene King saves 304m pints of water
Marking an apparent first in the pub and restaurant arena, pub retailer and brewer Greene King has worked closely with a water management consultancy...
New impeller combines reliability and efficiency
AGAINST a background of growing demand from the water and wastewater treatment industries for submersible motor pumps that resist clogging, deliver reliability and contribute...
Rapid sewer assessment tool
MeasurIT Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of a groundbreaking acoustic sewer inspection tool - the SL-RAT™ - which provides rapid sewer assessment...
Connah’s Quay opts for “almost zero maintenance” DO monitors
The how and why behind the deployment of luminescent optical dissolved oxygen (LDO) monitoring at a well-known CCGT power station, in the words of...
New hold/release cleaning system for sewer pipelines
Engineering design firm Reece Innovation offers some background on its new 'Flusher Gate', which promises to make sewer pipes self-cleaning.
Ever since pipelines began to...
