Yearly Archives: 2022

Environmental News

New ‘eco-blocks’ could replace traditional coastal defences

The Environment Agency’s national strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) has an overarching principle of moving away from the narrow concept...

Industry News

VA Tech Wabag secures $100 million contract in UAE

VA Tech Wabag has secured an order worth $100 million USD for engineering and procurement activities at a seawater reverse osmosis plant in the...

Appointments

British Water appoints first ambassadors

Four British Water Ambassadors have been appointed for the first time by the board of the UK’s leading sector trade association. The honorary role...

Industry News

Groundforce digs deep for Belfast tunnelling project

Groundforce has supplied specialist shoring equipment to support three deep excavations on a flood alleviation project in Northern Ireland. The medium-duty hydraulically adjustable Maxi...

Product News

Why a wastewater sampling company chose North Ridge Pumps low maintenance wastewater transfer pumps

All factories worldwide produce wastewater in some form, whether it be from the washing of fruit and vegetables, wash-down or rinsing of machines, cooling,...

Environmental News

Biospherian shares water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’

Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Exchanger Industries Limited acquires HRS Heat Exchangers

Canada based Exchanger Industries Limited has acquired UK based company HRS Heat Exchangers in a move that creates an international group with more than...

Government, Policy & Regulation

Northumbrian Water fined £240,000 for County Durham pollution

Northumbrian Water has been fined £240,000 for polluting a watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. The company appeared at Newcastle Crown Court...

Water Company News

Welsh Water to build reservoir visitor attraction hub

Welsh Water is set to begin construction of its visitor attraction hub at Lisvane and Llanishen reservoirs in Cardiff. The work to create a two-storey...

Water Company News

Anglian Water announces its largest ever apprenticeship recruitment drive

Anglian Water is launching 54 new Level 3 and 4 operational apprenticeship positions encouraging people to consider working within the utilities industry. This is...

Case Studies

The digital tide: why the water industry must adopt new ways of working

The water industry faces unprecedented challenges from Covid-19 and decarbonisation to delivering customer value which is all being amplified by a regulatory funding squeeze...

Government, Policy & Regulation

SEPA Chief Exec resigns after conduct allegations

Terry A’Hearn has stepped down from his position as Chief Executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency following allegations regarding his conduct. Although the agency...

Industry News

Elliptical pipes provide effective solution for Midlothian housing project

Stanton Precast recently provided their elliptical pipes as an effective, long term stormwater solution at a Midlothian housing development, supplying over 330 meters of...

Product News

Pipe in pipe applications – which type of spacer or spider do you need?

FT Pipeline Systems has, over the years, become synonymous with supplying quality products to the pipeline industry. In recent years they have increased their...

Product News

Steve Vick International adapt trailer to take 175m coils of 180mm PE pipe

Steve Vick International (SVI) recently assisted Hydrotech Water Services (UK) LTD on a project in the New Forest by adapting their Pipe Coil Trailer...

Industry News

Alpheus delivers some ‘dram’ fine green technology

A new biological cleaning system will substantially reduce the use of chemicals to clean biogas, a byproduct of the distillation process and which consists...

Event News

World Water Week calls for sessions and seminar abstracts

An open invitation has been announced by World Water Week, asking organisations with a desire to share innovative findings, tools or processes that could...

Event News

Aquatech to stage live events this year in China and Mexico

Following a successful live event in The Netherlands last year, RAI Amsterdam is proceeding with two more in-person water industry events for 2022; Aquatech...

Event News

AWWA announces ACE22 to return as hybrid event after two year break

The AWWA (American Water Works Association) has announced their ACE22 event is set to return as a hybrid event after a two year break. The...

Government, Policy & Regulation

Sir James Bevan calls for greater powers and tougher punishments

Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has called for greater powers and tougher punishments to aid with post-Brexit regulation during his speech at...

Product News