Top Scottish chippie becomes champion of fatberg fight
An award-winning fish and chip shop has become an official champion of Scottish Water’s campaign to free sewers of fatbergs.
Cromars is backing the six-month...
Net zero water challenge innovations supported by programme
Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology leaders are being accelerated through the UK water sector, thanks to new collaborative platform Spring.
Technologies from...
Cross-sector learning underpins British Water data conference
Valuable insights into how the water sector can manage data more effectively will be given at an upcoming British Water event this autumn, according...
Veolia to upgrade sludge facility for Ireland’s largest water treatment plant
Resource management firm Veolia has secured a new contract with Irish Water for works on Ireland’s largest water treatment plant at the Ballymore Eustace...
Infrastructure transformation enables World Ski Championship region to manage waste sustainably
Industrial equipment firm Atlas Copco writes.
Hosting an international sporting event may bring much-needed revenue to local communities, but it also brings some big challenges...
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...
Pharma pollution alarm
In an article published in Nature Sustainability, researchers warn that discharges to the environment during drug production, use and disposal have resulted in ecosystems...
Somerset tank project will store 800k litres of sewer water
A £9.5 million project to boost the storage and treatment of wastewater gets underway near Bridgwater, Somerset this autumn, says Wessex Water.
Construction teams will...
Report is most comprehensive to date on challenges and solutions to the phosphorus crisis
Skyrocketing fertilizer prices in recent months highlight importance of challenges outlined in new report
Phosphorus is an essential but often overlooked resource, which is...
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.
Using AI to avoid spills
A seemingly game-changing digital technology to reduce sewer network blockages and pollution is being rolled out by Yorkshire Water, in a contract recently awarded to Siemens.
Sponsored content: Introducing two new Mecana Systems in the UK
Eliquo Hydrok have added two new Mecana technologies to their existing Pile Cloth Media Filtration (PCMF) systems available for the UK Water and Wastewater markets
Will economics drive a paradigm shift in ballast water management?
(Words by ballast water treatment firm Optimarin)
The ‘polluter pays’ principle is starting to hit shipowners where it hurts - in the pocket - when...
POME dome success for biogas digester mixing system in Malaysia
As a growing number of countries move away from lagoon-based systems for the treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME), pumps and mixers expert...
Wastewaters have more potent environment for antibiotic resistance than previously thought, new study shows
Wastewaters have unique characteristics, allowing resistance genes to start their journey from harmless bacteria to those that cause disease...
Winners of BlueTech innovation prizes announced
Technologies for surface water monitoring and mains assessment take awards
Major global corporations and utilities share their challenges
Brave Blue World documentary trailer...
Even treated wastewater affects our rivers, and new study attempts to characterise species shift
New study seems to show that effluents from wastewater treatment plants change the balance of invertebrate communities in Hesse’s waters
Effluents from wastewater treatment plants...
French recycling and recovery firm to modernise effluent plant in Cameroon
Suez has won the contract to modernise and extend the effluent treatment plant at the refinery of the National Refining Company (SO.NA.RA) in Limbé, Cameroon.
Avoiding pump blockages
Wastewater plant operators face the problem of pump blockage - resulting from large quantities of grit, debris and fibrous matter - on a daily...
Slim SAF meets SEPA spec
Technology from wastewater treatment specialist WPL has been selected by Scottish Water to deliver enhanced ammonia removal at a village treatment works.
