After a year in which everything has changed and will probably never be the...
The recent massive changes, from home working and education to ‘Zoom’ pub nights, have proven that new innovation can be rapidly introduced when the need is there. The water industry is no exception and...
Close-fit lining technique Rolldown® a winner in Hindhead, Surrey
When an ageing water pipeline reached the end of its service life and needed replacing to prevent further water quality and pressure issues, asset owner South East Water and construction firm The Clancy Group...
Adaptability of ArcGIS apps proves a success with staff on the front line at...
Esri builds the world’s most powerful mapping and spatial analytics software. In the process, this global market leader in geographic information systems harnesses the concept of location, location, location to drive both efficiency and...
Continuous, real-time monitoring of sludge blanket levels
ATi UK’s Senior Service Engineer, Mark Holmes, discusses the cutting-edge technologies available for measuring and monitoring sludge blanket, providing optimum efficiency and flexibility through smart, ultrasonic and continuous, real-time measurement.
Measuring and managing the depth...
Macclesfield makes history as UK’s first Smart Water Network Town
An ancient Cheshire market town is set for a place in the engineering history books by becoming the UK’s first Smart Water Network Town.
Digital wizards working with water company United Utilities have linked together...
Smart new technologies can play a vital role in addressing plastic pollution crisis in...
From source to sea, our waters are contaminated by a plastics scourge. A new study by the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Water Management Institute offers a number of technological solutions aimed...
State of the art Mayflower sails into service
Today, a quarter of a million people in the Plymouth area are drinking water produced by a new, state-of-the-art treatment works.
South West Water’s Mayflower Water Treatment Works at Roborough, just north of Plymouth, is...
Severn Trent use cutting-edge technology to protect pipes
Severn Trent has a vast network of pipes that supplies water to its four million customers. In fact, if you stretched them out in a line, they’d measure 46,000km long. That’s long enough to...
UK-India MoU opens doors for UK suppliers
A new trading relationship between the UK and India will open many doors for the water and wastewater supplier community, writes British Water chief executive Lila Thompson.
As the Indian government pushes forward with vast...
Experts on NASA programme help put ‘rocket science’ into running the region’s water works
North West water engineers are in talks with experts working on behalf of NASA to help inject a bit of ‘rocket science’ into the way they maintain the region’s treatment works.
The fact that mankind...