United Utilities deploys 330 smart pumps in CSO programme
United Utilities is deploying 330 intelligent wastewater pumping systems across north-west England as part of its programme to reduce storm-overflow spills, in what's said...
Inescapable? new book sizes up the toxic legacy of PFAS
The title of F. Marina Schauffler’s Inescapable offers a nod to both the physical characteristics of PFAS and the predicament into which their widespread...
€400m wastewater programme targets Sea of Marmara pollution
Türkiye and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have agreed an approximately €400 million investment programme centred on advanced biological wastewater treatment, as the...
Water Breakthrough Challenge 7 will award £50m to accelerate transformational innovation
The Water Innovation Fund has launched the seventh Water Breakthrough Challenge, which will award up to £50 million to collaborative innovations that tackle the...
Wastewater treatment risks shifting microplastics problem from water to land, APPG report warns
Wastewater treatment is acting as a major pathway for microplastics into agricultural soils and potentially the food system, according to a new parliamentary report...
Precast storm tanks join AMP8 rollout
Water-management products manufacturer Marshalls Civils & Drainage has been appointed to a £6 million Severn Trent framework to supply precast concrete storm tanks as...
Greener MOF cuts water treatment costs
A change in the way a metal-organic framework (MOF) is processed has substantially reduced its estimated energy use and production cost while retaining its...
Parched UK confronts growing challenge of water resilience
With almost three-quarters of England in drought and conditions also severe across Wales and parts of Scotland, the UK's exceptionally dry summer is intensifying...
PFAS-eating insects among the finalists of the Water Discovery Challenge
Twenty projects have been named finalists of the Water Innovation Fund’s second Water Discovery Challenge, which is intended to accelerate the development and adoption...
UK utilities support burst rising mains detection initiative
Condition-monitoring specialist Samotics has developed a new capability to detect burst rising mains, one of the wastewater network’s most challenging and least visible failures....
Automated floodgates help deliver IED secondary containment
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As UK water and sewerage companies progress Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) improvement programmes, secondary containment is becoming an...
Researchers combine plasma and cavitation in bid to destroy PFAS
Researchers in Germany have developed what appears to be a new approach to destroying persistent PFAS 'forever chemicals' in contaminated water, using two complementary...
Dual-bubble process removes over 90% of wastewater microplastics
Researchers at Australia's RMIT University say they have demonstrated a way to remove more than 90% of microplastics from wastewater by combining microscopic and...
Low-emission wastewater technology enters field trials in Scotland
A promising low-emission wastewater treatment technology has moved from the laboratory into real-world testing, as researchers at The James Hutton Institute begin field trials...
Separation and containment system targets aviation pollution risk
Aviation facilities are facing increasing pressure to prevent fuel-contaminated runoff and firefighting foam discharges from entering stormwater and wastewater systems. US firm NWPX Park...
Plug-and-play hydropower system trials at Glasgow wastewater works
A novel hydropower technology is being trialled by Scottish Water at its Shieldhall Wastewater Treatment Works in Glasgow, to assess the possibilities it presents...
Wastewater phosphate monitoring … it’s all about the sample!
Swan Analytical Instruments has launched a new Sample Filtration Cabinet which the group says ensures the reliable provision of representative samples to its continuous...
Paris wastewater plant to test removal of tyre wear particles
A pilot project at one of Europe's largest wastewater treatment plants will investigate whether wastewater treatment processes can effectively remove tyre and road wear...
EU-funded mobile treatment to recycle Montpellier’s urban wastewater
Montpellier is testing a mobile wastewater recycling system designed to turn treated urban wastewater into a reusable resource for applications ranging from irrigation and...
Water sector faces ‘perfect storm’ as AMP8 delays push projects off track
The UK water sector risks falling into a familiar cycle of late-stage pressure and rising costs unless it addresses the underlying cause of the...
