Monthly Archives: August, 2022

Thames Estuary Growth Board seeks three additional ‘super sharp’ private sector board members

The Thames Estuary Growth Board is planning to appoint approximately three additional Board members.  The Thames Estuary is the UK’s biggest government-backed growth opportunity, with...

Mobile air pollution exhibit on display in Edinburgh this summer

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Glasgow Science Centre launched the touring exhibition in 2020, aiming to highlight the importance of air...

United Utilities achieves record renewable energy generation and uses electricity exclusively from green sources

United Utilities has had a record year for generating its own renewable energy in-house, helping protect its water customers from rising power costs. The North...

Singapore scientists discover ‘future-proof’ method using bacteria to remove phosphorus from wastewater

Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University of Singapore, have developed...

Sensitive housing development meets stringent environmental requirements

The developers of high-end properties built on a historic Hampshire estate have selected WCS Environmental Engineering (WCSEE) technology to treat wastewater flows to strict...

New “Love Windermere” partnership launched to help protect England’s largest lake

A group of organisations from across Cumbria have come together in a new partnership to ensure that Windermere, England's largest natural lake, gets the...

Siemens includes UK universities in top tier research and innovation partnerships for the first time

Global technology giant Siemens has evolved its strategic engagement program with universities to include, for the first time, seven universities from the UK in...

ABB and Red Hat partner to deliver further scalable digital solutions across industrial edge and hybrid cloud

ABB and Red Hat has announced a global partnership to enable industries using ABB’s process automation and industrial software to scale rapidly and flexibly...

Call for Papers for Water Analysis Conference

The organiser of the Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring exhibition (WWEM) is calling for papers for the WWEM Analytical Conference, to be Chaired this...

SEPA warns water scarcity risk set to reach ‘Significant’ level in Scotland

Businesses in Scotland could soon be required to stop abstracting water, with 2022 seeing the driest January in the east since 1940. Groundwater and...

WWEM water monitoring event opens free registration for exhibition, workshops and conference

Registration has opened for the 10th WWEM Water and Wastewater Monitoring conference and exhibition which will be held in-person on the 12th & 13th October in Telford, England. Registration is...

Helping to conserve and improve precious groundwater with reliable and accurate non-intrusive flow measurement.

Because non-invasive clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters are fixed to the outside of the pipe, the volume flow can be measured without process disruption. Sound waves...

British Water appoints Mark Fletcher as Chair

Mark Fletcher, global water leader at Arup and an Arup Fellow, has been announced as British Water’s new chair. The appointment was announced at...

Anglian Water extends AUMA Actuators’ Service Level Agreement to 2028

AUMA Actuators Limited (AUMA UK), a world leader in electric valve actuation technology, has successfully extended its Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Anglian Water...

Ofwat’s latest leakage figures reveals progress, but more could be done

Ofwat has released new figures that shed light on the water industry's performance on reducing leakage. The provisional figures show that three quarters of the...

Marsh Industries launch merchant sales support

Marsh Industries, a leading manufacturer of off-mains drainage products, has launched an AI-driven sales tool designed to reduce estimating time and pressure on its...

VEGA becomes the first manufacturer to offer MCERTS Class one certification over a 5m range

In 2021, level and pressure instrumentation manufacturer, VEGA, became the first manufacturer to offer MCERTS Class one certification over a 5m range - either...

Rotorflush examine some innovative screening solutions

Today’s Water Management professionals are faced with a superfluity of legislation and regulatory duties. For example, the water industry strategic environmental requirements (WISER) set...

SuDS Tips: In the sixth and final instalment of this SuDS series, Stuart Crisp gives his thoughts on green infrastructure

A qualified civil engineer, Stuart Crisp has been at the forefront of construction and a specialist in drainage systems for over 35 years.  He...

Thames super sewer project creates ‘new land’ just as Bazalgette did

Stunning new aerial photography shows the extraordinary changes being made to the banks of the River Thames as part of London’s super sewer project. With...

Reservoir refurbishment requires temporary pumping perfection

During the summer of 2021, the Queen Elizabeth (QEII) Reservoir in South West London was drained so that refurbishment work could be carried out...

Moving from grey to green

The way forward is now clear on natural flood management, says Mott MacDonald’s Emma Wren and Paul Millard. We have, possibly, reached the tipping point...

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