Gibraltar faces scrutiny over decades of untreated sewage discharges into Mediterranean
Gibraltar has come under renewed environmental scrutiny following reports that the British overseas territory has discharged untreated sewage directly into the Mediterranean Sea for...
Hidden water risks place strain on Europe’s long‑term resilience, says report
Europe faces growing long-term risks as flooding, water scarcity and pollution increasingly converge across the continent, according to a new analysis from engineering and...
UKWIR launches framework to standardise asset health
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has released a report aimed at tackling the lack of a unified approach to quantifying and valuing asset health...
Live monitoring helps Scottish Water avoid over-pumping at St Andrews station
Real-time monitoring helped Scottish Water manage an unexpected maintenance problem at a strategic sewage pumping station in St Andrews, avoiding the need for temporary...
PFAS removal from industrial wastewater: How can activated carbon help?
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Removing harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from industrial wastewater and surrounding environments is a clear goal with many...
Achieving accurate bulk solids dosing in water treatment: selecting auger-based equipment
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When handling bulk solids in water treatment facilities, important steps include storage, transportation, and finally dosing of the material....
Patent transfer agreement brings phosphorus recovery technology closer to full-scale rollout
Royal HaskoningDHV has signed a patent transfer agreement with Kemira for ViviMag, a phosphorus recovery technology designed to improve resource extraction from sewage sludge.
The...
Engineered algae targets smaller microplastic fragments in wastewater
A research team at the University of Missouri has developed a genetically engineered algae strain they say is designed to capture microplastics in wastewater,...
Stocked and ready for action: A pumps supplier reflects on last-minute sourcing
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Pumps are an equipment category that can seem mystifying to the outsider. There's the profusion of different shapes, sizes...
Study links falling phosphorus levels to ecological improvements in English rivers
A new report from the Environment Agency and the University of Stirling looks at the links between phosphorus concentrations and ecology in English rivers....
Environment Agency announces largest ever expansion of its enforcement team
The Environment Agency (EA) has announced a fivefold increase in its team of enforcement officers and lawyers tackling water pollution, from 41 roles in...
Comment: Why predictive intelligence is non-negotiable for UK water
By Ryan Pearson of water technology firm Metasphere.
The Independent Water Commission’s (IWC) Final Report, delivered in July 2025, is being called the water sector's...
Water Discovery Challenge returns to bring more fresh thinking innovators into the water sector
The Water Innovation Fund is opening its doors to innovators from outside the water sector to enter bold solutions to the urgent challenges facing...
Welsh utility scales up deployment of Intelligent submersible wastewater pump
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water will roll out hundreds of Flygt Concertor intelligent pumping systems, following a successful deployment which delivered energy savings of 40%....
Time for a rethink on antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
Municipal wastewater contains a large range of excreted antibiotics and has therefore long been suspected to be a spawning ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A...
Whose pollution is it anyway? Project will use bacteriophages to point the finger
An ambitious interdisciplinary project is aiming to develop and test a first-of-its-kind tool which can trace the sources of pollution in UK water bodies....
US groups demonstrate commerical scale PFAS destruction of high-flow industrial wastewater
US firm Claros Technologies has completed a commercial-scale run of its proprietary UV-photochemical PFAS destruction method, reportedly achieving over 99.99% destruction across long, short,...
Water Jetting Association streamlines membership structure
The Water Jetting Association (JTA) has launched a simplified its membership structure so more businesses and organisations can take advantage of being members.
The move...
Dundee-based greywater recycling startup secures £350k
Dundee-based water technology firm Cascade Water Products, has secured angel investment of up to £350,000 towards helping commercialise its innovative micro-greywater recycling system.
Cascade says...
Using bacteria to create valuable materials from sludge: New funding announced in the Netherlands
Half a million euros has been donated to assist a research project at the University of Delft (TU Delft), exploring how microbes can be...
