Pumps bolster Rotherham flood resilience
The centre of the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire suffered significant flooding following extreme rainfall in June 2007 and November 2019, affecting hundreds...
Reforms to flood funding and investment to protect farming communities
The UK government says it is bolstering England’s resilience to flooding through additional financial support to farmers and rural communities, as well as refreshing...
Electric dewatering pumps optimise lithium extraction at Chilean mine
A mine in Northern Chile has seemingly doubled its lithium extraction rate since installing WEDA drainage pumps from Atlas Copco. Here, the latter firm...
Flooding programmes deliver big results, says the Environment Agency
The Environment Agency has published its mid-programme report, detailing the benefits the agency says are accruing from various schemes undertaken to support flood and...
Experts meet in Mozambique to improve resilience against tropical cyclones
Researchers from the University of Bristol and across the world are joining forces this week, in a professed bid to advance early warning systems...
Wave buoy data boosts flood forecasting, says SEPA
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) says it has advanced its flood risk management capabilities with the deployment of Scotland’s first public “near-shore” wave...
Fluid thinking: Equipping cities to avoid inundation
Urban locations worldwide are struggling to manage stormwater drainage, in the face of extreme weather. The opportunity appears vast, for those who can help...
£12 million Cockett Wick Seawall Improvement scheme completed
The Cockett Wick Seawall Improvement scheme has been completed, said the Environment Agency on 15 August, describing a project that aims to provide protection...
Planter catches rainwater at railway station
A specially designed planter that captures, uses, and stores rainwater before slowly releasing it into drains has premiered at one of TransPennine Express’ (TPE’s)...
New trade show ready to showcase advances in water jetting
The first WJA Trade Show taking place in September will provide a strong focus on key issues in the water jetting industry, including health...
Power of jetting: New trade show
This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with The WJA Trade Show.
A new trade show dedicated to the industrial and commercial applications...
Call to make London a ‘sponge city’
London will need to urgently become a ‘sponge city’ – a city better designed to absorb and hold rainwater – in order to ward...
Trade show will spotlight growing importance of jetting industry
A new trade show dedicated to the industrial and commercial applications of water jetting is to be held in London in September.
The Water Jetting...
Blockage-clearing pipebot picks up award in OFWAT innovation challenge, with help from drainage expert
A provider of innnovative drainage solutions, Jet Aire, has been named one of the winning partners in the Ofwat Breakthrough Innovation Challenge for its...
Flood risk proven by groundwater monitor
West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) in the UK recently refused a planning application on the grounds of flood risk. The proposed development included the...
Calls for flooding fund as farmers speak of fears for 2024 harvest after one...
A scheme to support flood-hit farmers must open as soon as possible, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has urged, after one of...
What causes extreme flooding? German study weighs contributors
According to a recent study by researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (abbreviated as "UFZ"), the more flood-driving factors there are, the...
Adler and Allan acquires specialist water and drainage company
Environmental risk reduction services business, Adler and Allan, has acquired specialist water and drainage company, Public Sewer Services (PSS).
PSS has been providing an in-house...
Eco-friendly jetting backs super-thin tank technology at new hospital car park
Sustainable drain cleaning technology deployed by Lanes Group plc has supported the installation of a ground-breaking ‘super-thin' source control stormwater attenuation system that has...
Water flow monitor fills technology gap
The instrumentation company Nivus has developed a new hand-held portable flow monitoring technology in response to a requirement that was originally identified by the...
