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Innovative wastewater emissions measurement tech gets a first outing with Scottish Water

The utility is first on the block with UK and sector deployment of Grandperspective's scanfeld®. Described as a revolutionary new gas emissions monitoring technology,...

Modular plant supports treatment upgrade for animal charity

The UK’s largest dog welfare charity has selected an enhanced effluent treatment technology to meet stringent regulations at its rehoming centre in Northern...
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Three more P removal contracts awarded

Treatment solutions firm Bluewater Bio says its high rate multi-media filtration technology, FilterClear, has been selected for three further plants by three different water companies

Strange items flushed down the toilet cost millions of pounds per year

Hygiene services provider Initial Washroom Hygiene has released a study of 1,000 UK consumers which appears to shed new light on some of Britain’s...

Goodbye to decaying deposits and blocked pumps? Ensuring the clean operation of municipal stormwater...

The use of air supply through injectors slows the rate at which odour and decay develop in a wastewater application, as German pumps and...
GasMix system

Time to get things moving?

Envirotec asked Landia about their decision to retrofit its GasMix digester mixing system to a legacy AD tank .

Scale-up data technology, water companies urged

There has been “significant growth” in the use of data by the UK water sector but technology now needs to be rolled out at scale if optimum benefits are to be felt over the next five years

Water industry “shifting to outcome-based strategy”

The water sector is moving towards an outcome-focused approach to the way it plans and invests in environmental solutions, in the view of Phil...

Concentrator arm improves scum removal efficiency during activated sludge processing

A&J Fabtech has developed a seemingly innovative, high performance surface scum removal system for use in activated sludge processes that uses a collector arm...

Tool to help understand the environmental effects of human medicines in Scotland

A new data visualisation tool aims to help researchers better understand the effects medicines have on Scotland’s environment. It has been launched by the...

Reading festival sewage to be converted into energy

Hundreds of thousands of litres of sewage from Reading Festival will be transformed into renewable energy following this year’s event. Thames Water says it will...

Concrete repair materials chosen for Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works

As part of a major £16 million upgrade of Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works being carried out on behalf of Southern Water, AkzoNobel’s range of...

World’s first municipal scale UV LED water treatment project

Typhon Treatment Systems, a UK‐based manufacturer of Ultraviolet (UV) Light Emitting Diode (LED) water treatment equipment, has won an order to install its innovative...

New tanker to ease South West septic tank woes

In a nod to the septic-tank-emptying problems being encountered by many in Cornwall and Devon, waste management company CSG is announcing its investment in...

Improved sewage treatment has increased river biodiversity over past 30 years, says study

Improvements in wastewater treatment in the UK over the past 30 years are linked to improvements in river biodiversity, according to a study conducted...

Personal care firm claims a first with ‘truly flushable’ moist tissue wipe

Bristol-based personal care company Natracare has launched what it claims is Europe’s first truly flushable moist tissue wipe, citing the new product as a...

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...

New report highlights the wastewater reuse opportunity in eight cities across the globe

A new report, Wastewater: The reuse opportunity, published on 27 February by the International Water Association and OFID (the OPEC Fund for International Development),...

Do or dye: Synthetic colours in wastewater pose a threat to food chains worldwide

The ecological and health threats of synthetic dyes entering wastewater systems have been detailed in a new study, which calls for new laws worldwide...

Q&A: Delivering sustainable solutions to solve water challenges 

With British Water’s conference on creating a more sustainable water sector approaching, Stephen Kennedy shares his views on celebrating recent successes in creating a...