Yearly Archives: 2022

Two new Modular Water Pumping Stations installed as part of £7.2 million Resilience Project for NI Water

NI Water has installed two innovative new modular Pumping Stations at Moys Water Pumping Station (Limavady) and Ballinrees (Coleraine), as part of its Northern...

Highways projects must take lead in tackling waterway pollution

Highways engineers are being urged to increase the focus on surface water treatment at the design stage following the recent World Environment Day 2022. This...

Finalists announced for the VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards

More than 40 firms across Scotland are in the running to secure a prestigious VIBES - Scottish Environment Business Award. A record number of entrants...

How can stronger ESG strategies help businesses stay afloat?

Linda Allardyce, corporate sustainability expert at SaveMoneyCutCarbon, explains why businesses should embrace Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies in order to survive the looming...

Consumer experts to give evidence to Lords Ofwat inquiry

The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee will continue its evidence sessions on the work of Ofwat, the UK’s water regulator, by discussing...

Climate-related flooding and drought expected to impact millions of people and cost world’s major cities $194 billion annually

C40 Cities has revealed new research quantifying the dire impacts of climate-driven drought and flooding on the world’s largest cities and its residents. Supported by...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan joins Mayors from Freetown, Bogotá and Bristol to launch the World’s To-Do List

Sadiq Khan, Chair of C40 Cities and Mayor of London, is shining a light on the unique role that cities are playing in addressing...

Galliford Try appoints Mariana Gonzalez to lead on asset optimisation

Galliford Try’s Environment business has appointed Mariana Gonzalez as the new Head of Process Solutions as it ramps up its activities in asset optimisation,...

EAC welcomes ONS move to publish emissions statistics alongside GDP figures

The Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP, has written to the National Statistician welcoming the development that the...

The Environment Agency appoints Mott MacDonald to provide digital Smart Object Library

The Environment Agency is to use Mott MacDonald’s Moata Intelligent Content as its Smart Object Library (SOL) and will make it available to all...

Disinfection added to Yorkshire Water treatment works on river Wharfe

Ultraviolet disinfection measures have been added to Yorkshire Water’s treatment works at Draughton and Beamsley to help improve water quality at the designated bathing...

A digital future for the process industries with new Ayrshire technology centre

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, operated by the University of Strathclyde, has announced that it will open a new technology centre in...

Isle appoints Erin Zhang as Head of Technology Advisory & Adoption

Isle Utilities has announced the appointment of Erin Zhang as Head of Technology Advisory & Adoption. Erin will be responsible for leading their EU Technology...

Wavin reveals Water Futures Challenge shortlist

Four engineering students have been shortlisted in the Water Futures Challenge, bringing them one step closer to becoming the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE)...

Shareholders approve Thames Water’s plan for an additional £2 billion of expenditure

The Board and shareholders of Thames Water have approved a £11.5 billion business plan for the current regulatory period ending 31 March 2025, developed...

Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP, responds to OEP investigation

Reacting to the announcement by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) that it is to investigate the regulation of combined sewer overflows, Environmental Audit Committee Chairman,...

WEG supplies motors and drives to world’s biggest desalination plant

Built on the western coast of the red sea, the Rabigh 3 is the world’s largest seawater desalination plant. The plant, which uses reverse...

M Group Services excels with 13 RoSPA wins for its ongoing commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.

The long-term commitment of M Group Services and its operating businesses to the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing has been recognised with...

Siemens acquires Brightly Software to accelerate growth in digital building operations

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI), the frontrunner in digital buildings, has signed an agreement to acquire Brightly Software, a leading U.S.-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of...

Innovative ‘dual-sided’ solar scheme at Aberdeenshire treatment site

An innovative solar scheme which produces energy from both sides of a solar panel has been installed at a Scottish Water site to support...

Alan Lovell announced as preferred Environment Agency Chair candidate

Environment Secretary George Eustice has selected Alan Lovell DL as the Government’s preferred candidate to succeed Emma Howard Boyd as the Chair of the...

Wessex Water research reveals environmental benefits of wetlands  

Constructed wetlands could successfully deliver a natural alternative to chemically treating wastewater before it is returned to the environment, according to the findings of...

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