Monthly Archives: April, 2022

Pilot scheme introduces green energy generation to Scottish reservoir

Torishima Service Solutions Europe Ltd, using an ABB generator and regenerative drive on their turbine, has provided a renewable energy scheme producing green energy...

Liz Barber to retire as Yorkshire Water CEO – Nicola Shaw appointed successor

Yorkshire Water has announced that after nearly 12 years with the company, nine as CFO and close to three years as CEO, Liz Barber...

Severn Trent commits £20 million to protect rivers in special areas of conservation

Following the launch of their Get River Positive Plan, five pledges to transform river water quality across their region, the water company has announced...

Northern Ireland pupils ‘Walk for Water’ for World Water Day

1 in 10 people around the world, some 771 million, are still living without clean water close to home and many countries simply do...

Scottish Water to return reservoir to nature

Scottish Water has begun work to restore Munnoch Reservoir in Ayrshire to a more natural state and transform it into a flood prevention measure...

Affinity Water’s new water main project in Hertfordshire moves to next phase

Affinity Water has started work on its next phase to install a new water main in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is expected to be...

Stantec joins Neurodiversity in Business as founding member

Stantec has joined Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) as a founding member. NiB is a new organisation which will function as a business-led industry forum...

MP Guy Opperman visits Colt Crag Reservoir

Northumbrian Water welcomed Hexham MP Guy Opperman, on a visit of one of their most recent projects. The water company were delighted to be joined...

Europe’s largest Nereda wastewater treatment plant now online

Next generation wastewater treatment is now up and running in Lancashire after United Utilities completed its £164m rebuild of Blackburn wastewater treatment works. The scheme,...

New report calls for collaborative, data-driven decision making in the utilities sector

As organisations in the water, gas, and electricity industries commit to transitioning to net zero, a new report, Pioneering cross-sector change and collaboration, calls...

Businesses across Scotland urged to prepare for water scarcity this summer

Emerging parts of the country could struggle in the coming months with insufficient resources due to a particularly dry winter. New data reveals January...

DuPont funds groundwater treatment solution for rural South African community

DuPont Water Solutions has announced a partnership with Kusini Water, the City of Mbombela Municipality and the U.S. Embassy on a new project that...

Trenchless technology helps divert rainwater from new bottling plant

A TRACTO Mini Olympus GRUNDORAM pipe rammer was recently deployed to a site in Derbyshire to ram a 325mm steel casing under the concrete...

Major Glasgow sewer repair completed

Scottish Water has completed a major repair to a collapsed sewer running beneath a busy Glasgow commuter route. Last year shops on Kilmarnock Road in...

Net zero drive for the Scottish water sector

A new Scotland Hydro Nation initiative launched on World Water Day, aims to drive Scotland’s water sector to net zero and beyond by 2040. The...

Northumbrian Water Group secure funding for customer-focused innovation projects

Northumbrian Water has secured £1.8m worth of funding for three different projects which will help to further improve services for customers and make operations...

LSBUD enhances search accuracy by partnering with google maps

LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, has switched its mapping system to Google Maps in a move that will make searching for...

First time for new Doosan products at Hillhead 2022

Doosan will be featuring a wide range of new products for the first time on the company’s stand at this year's Hillhead Exhibition in...

British Water & Water Industry Forum merger complete

British Water (BW) and the Water Industry Forum (WIF) have announced that the merger of the two organisations is now complete.   “By joining forces, we’ve...

Metito awarded the first public-private partnership wastewater treatment project in the Republic of Uzbekistan

Metito, the global provider of water and alternative energy management solutions, has been awarded the design, build, finance, operation, and maintenance of a 100,000...

Geothermal plant to install new Hitemp 160 bearings

In the coming months, a Turkish geothermal plant will be installing Vesconite’s high-temperature bearing material known as Hitemp 160. Specially designed for pump bearings,...

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