Yearly Archives: 2024

Distilling industry wastewater could create green hydrogen, Heriot-Watt scientists find

Wastewater from the distilling industry could be used to produce green hydrogen – a type of sustainable fuel – using materials developed by scientists...

Yorkshire Water to reduce storm overflows in Scarborough with £2.8m investment

Yorkshire Water is set to invest £2.8 million in its network in Scarborough to reduce the number of discharges into the sea. This work will...

Hoist & Winch designs and manufactures outdoor-specification tandem-lifting hoist for Environment Agency

Hoist & Winch Ltd recently supplied a special tandem-lifting hoist system as part of improvements to Environment Agency flood defence assets at Taplow Weir...

National Trust and Yorkshire Water’s nature-restoration programme receives £1million funding from the White Rose Forest 

Landscapes for Water, an ambitious new programme of moorland restoration and woodland creation across the South Pennines by the National Trust and Yorkshire Water,...

Government launches new measures to halt and reverse nature’s decline

New measures have been set out by the Government to boost nature recovery on land and at sea.  The new plans - announced one year...

Rivers are Life unveils global results of inaugural “State of Rivers Around the World” survey

Rivers are Life, a collective voice for global river ecosystems, in consultation with Louisiana State University (LSU), has revealed the multinational, multicultural, and cross-generational...

Customer research lifts the lid on sewage stink in Camberley

Ofwat and CCW have published the results of research into customers' experience of how Thames Water handled an incident in Camberley in 2023, in...

Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research elevates aquaculture practices with Nuvonic UV technology

Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima), a renowned food science research institute in Norway, partnered with Øwre-Johnsen, a leading supplier of...

Anglian Water expands transformative AI technology trial

Following the successful pilot of its digital asset management technology with Anglian Water, Norwegian digital analytics company, InfoTiles, is embarking on an expanded proof...

Sulzer commits to third year of Youth Engagement Programme after continued success

Global engineering firm Sulzer is celebrating a successful two years of its Youth Engagement Programme, run by ESG partner Ahead Partnership. The Sulzer Youth...

Preparing for Environment Act 21 implementation deadline

As the deadline approaches for water companies to have in place monitoring requirements of the Environment Act 21, the sector is concentrating efforts on...

Mixing and aeration system for aerobic treatment in the paper industry

Some industries are plagued by particularly high energy and water consumption and therefore aim to reduce both sustainably. This is particularly true for the...

Dual functioning repair coupling makes for easy on-the-spot change in pipe replacement

Saint Brieuc Agglomeration is a private water utility in the region of Brittany, France, supplying 41,000 customers with water through 1,000 km of pipes....

SuDS Tips: Regular columnist Stuart Crisp explores water qualitatively and quantitively

Stuart Crisp, UK manager of Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS), looks at how ‘good’ SuDS addresses water quality as much as water quantity when it...

Sulzer helps optimize flood defence pumping station

Barmouth is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, located in Cardigan Bay, on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach. The town's low-lying frontage has been developed...

Telling Tales – We can all learn from Teenage Kicks

“What if we put water at the centre of how we design an economy?” This was the opener from Professor Mariana Mazzucato, co-chair of...

New report reveals the policies needed to protect the UK’s water supply

New analysis suggests that the UK’s water demand is set to outstrip supply, leaving the Great British cup of tea at risk if the...

New partnership between Euroby and Polat Makina

Euroby Ltd, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of waste processing equipment and dewatering expertise, has entered into a new partnership with Turkish equipment...

Continued expansion for Lutz in the UK

Lutz UK Limited recently moved into much larger premises as a result of continued expansion in the UK. The 6500 square foot property on the...

Progressive partnerships will refresh water sector narrative 

The need for a radical rethink of how the water sector communicates, internally, and with the media and the public, was a key theme...

Integration – A systems thinking approach provides food for thought, with Jason Jones, Costain

Phil Alsop chats with Jason Jones, Strategic Development Director - Natural Resources, Costain, as he explains how a systems thinking approach, with its emphasis...

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