Package treatment plant specialist wins Scottish Water framework contracts
WPL conical tank installed at a Scottish Water treatment site.
Package treatment plant specialist WPL has won three contracts with public utility Scottish Water after...
Radar level sensors at “a competitive price” announced by measurement firm
Measurement technology firm Vega has introduced a new Bluetooth radar level sensor aimed at the water and wastewater sectors. The VEGAPULS WL S 61...
United Utilities awards biggest UK Nereda contract
United Utilities has agreed a contract for its first full scale application of the Nereda® activated sludge technology at Kendal WwTW. The plant is...
Actuators support Portugal’s plan for advanced wastewater treatment
The Viseu Sul WWTP in Portugal’s Viseu County is the first in the country to adopt advanced membrane filtration (MBR) wastewater treatment technology. The...
1 in 5 Brits will continue to buy products with microbeads, says YouGov poll
● Government rules will see microbead use in cosmetic products and cleaning products banned by 2017
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Nereda promises “water industry step change”
Technical expert at RoyalHaskoningDHV, Andrew Thompson explains: “Nereda® is rapidly becoming the new standard to replace traditional activated sludge processes, with an installed base...
RO works with tricky waste
Veolia Water Technologies has launched a range of High Recovery Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems for extracting high purity water from industrial, brackish and wastewater...
Modelling flocculation for water treatment
Darrell Egarr and Lucy Horton of MMI Engineering on a project to improve the design of sludge separation and collection systems.
In the UK, wastewater...
Cashing in on the sludge gold rush
Over the past two decades, the value of sludge to the wastewater treatment sector has been turned on its head, transforming it from an...
Getting to an agreeable settlement
A&J Fabtech offers a few thoughts on picket fence thickeners, which it provides for water treatment and industrial users.
Picket fence thickeners enable the thickening...
Rolling back to move forward
A case study highlighting the importance of application version control for water and wastewater SCADA systems, from Trihedral, a developer of HMI/SCADA software for...
TOC analysers used to optimise effluent quality at brewery
This case study from Pollution & Process Monitoring looks at the issues surrounding the decision to use its Protoc TOC analysers at a well...
Veolia treatment plant meets tough consent limits at Macallan whisky distillery
Veolia Water Technologies has successfully completed the £2.5m wastewater treatment plant for the £100m Macallan Distillery and visitor centre in Craigellachie, Moray. The Macallan...
Embracing the market model for sludge
A panel discussion at July's AD & Biogas show brought together water and waste industry representatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities that will...
Severn Trent Water fined £426,000 for repeated raw sewage leaks in to the Shire...
Pollution incidents occurred on three separate occasions
On 21 July 2016, at Nottingham Crown Court, Severn Trent Water Limited was fined £426,000, ordered to pay...
Scraper bridges installed quickly and safely at London Tideway
A&J Fabtech has been commended for developing a new safer, quicker and lower cost method of installing rotating full-bridge suction lift scrapers, a procedure...
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...
Sand filtration system gives final polish to wastewater following AD installation at maltster
Hydro International has installed a sand filtration solution to cope with increased wastewater capacity following the completion of new anaerobic digestion facilities at...
Grit removal system refurb boosts peak flow handling in Exeter area
Wastewater treatment systems and solutions provider Jacopa has completed a contract to refurbish the grit removal system at one of South West Water’s largest...
Could these student inventions help solve some of the nation’s biggest wastewater issues?
Oil recycling bins, ultraviolet lights in washing machines and a toilet grate to prevent unsuitable items entering drainage systems are among the student inventions...
