Yearly Archives: 2024

Stellar environmental achievements celebrated at ESS Expo

During the Environmental Services & Solutions Expo (ESS) in Birmingham this month, the industry gathered to celebrate the next generation of environmental leaders and...

Wild Haweswater announced as winner in global sustainability awards

Wild Haweswater, a partnership between the RSPB and landowner United Utilities, near Bampton in the Lake District, has won the annual Ashden Award for...

Anglian Water invests £1.5 million to upgrade pipe network in Upper Staploe

Anglian Water’s @one Alliance is replacing three kilometres of water pipes between Upper Staploe and Eaton Socon. The work started earlier this year and is...

Institution of Civil Engineers celebrates female fellows in new exhibition

A new exhibition highlighting the accomplishments and diverse experiences of female fellows has recently opened at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), One Great...

WSP announces three additions to its UK & Ireland leadership team to drive new chapter of growth 

Leading multi-disciplinary professional services consultancy WSP, has announced the appointment of three new additions to its UK leadership team. These strategic additions will be...

Scottish Water wins recognition for climate work at World Water Congress in Canada

Scottish Water was among the winners in a climate-related recognition programme at the prestigious International Water Association’s (IWA) World Water Congress and Exhibition 2024...

New senior appointments at South Staffordshire Plc

South Staffordshire Plc, the UK integrated services group that operates two regulated water companies and also offers a range of services and products to...

Improving infrastructure planning is essential to delivery

The water sector needs to build infrastructure at scale over the coming decades. Ahead of her keynote address to the Water Industry Forum on...

Groundbreaking hydropower project completed in South Lanarkshire 

Work on a groundbreaking project to harness hydropower from waste water has been completed by Scottish Water, supporting its drive to achieve net zero...

Southern Water invests £2.5 million to upgrade Surrey Wastewater Treatment Works

Southern Water is investing £2.5 million to upgrade its Grayswood Wastewater Treatment Works in Surrey in an effort to bring down phosphorous levels and...

Thames Water publishes series of design changes to proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction project following feedback from over 2,000 people

The UK’s largest water and wastewater company has announced it will make further changes to its proposed London drought resilience project in response to...

SEPA launches innovative Satellite Emergency Mapping Service to boost environmental crisis response

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has taken a bold step forward in crisis management with the launch of an innovative Satellite Emergency Mapping...

Edwin James Group rebrands as MARCH

Engineering services firm Edwin James Group has announced its rebrand to MARCH.  The company said the transition to MARCH represents a significant evolution of the...

New partnership closes the loop for hundreds of tonnes of plastic bio-beads, headed for landfill

An Exeter-based specialist plastic recycling company DCW Polymers has teamed up with South West Water to deliver a pioneering recycling partnership to reprocess over...

Work complete on £2.3m solar power and battery energy storage scheme near Selkirk 

Scottish Water has completed work on a £2.3 million solar power and battery energy storage scheme which is set to save around 169 tonnes...

Streamlining and mitigating risk in sewer access and retrieval operations

Traditional sewer system access and retrieval methods are often fraught with complexity and significant time investment. In the ever-evolving field of drainage maintenance and...

Iknaia teams up with OSIL and UniFAI for real-time bathing water monitoring project

Iknaia has announced a revolutionary collaboration with Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) and UnifAI Technology to deliver real-time monitoring of bathing water conditions at...

New taskforce launched to turbocharge flood preparedness and delivery of flood defences

A new Floods Resilience Taskforce to turbocharge the development of flood defences and bolster the nation’s resilience to extreme weather has convened for the...

Toby Perkins elected Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee

Following nominations and elections, Toby Perkins has been elected Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee.  The Committee's remit is to consider the extent to which the policies...

Severn Trent pays £327,500 to wildlife trust after investigation

An investigation by the Environment Agency into Severn Trent Water revealed that raw sewage from a blocked sewer had been discharged into a brook...

Over 300,000 new roles across the energy and utilities sector needed by 2030

Launched last week at the Energy & Utility Skills Conference and Awards, the Workforce Demand Reports from Energy & Utility Skills highlight the significant...

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