Driving down leakage with manpower
As regulator Ofwat sets a minimum leakage reduction target of 15 per cent during AMP7, Watertrain shares why increased manpower is at the core...
The Wessex Water Innovative Re-Rounder
After the implementation of the transfer of private drainage to Wessex Water in 2011, it became imperative that we focus more attention on trenchless...
The difficulties of managing a response in the water industry
Managing a response for water companies can be fraught with an assortment of complications and considerations. Here, Chris Ramsbottom, Head of Operational and Technical...
Improving monitoring and wastewater assets to reach Zero Pollutions by 2030
By Lewis Brown
Gaining a better understanding
Southern Water is a company in transformation and achieving zero pollutions by 2030 is one of the many ambitious...
Delivering resilience
Business intelligence delivered through geographic information systems (GIS) is helping water companies throughout the UK make significant improvements across operations, both in the office...
A win-win for the environment and water companies, EloVac®- P, vacuum degassing of digested sludge.
ELIQUO is a group of companies operating in the field of municipal water, wastewater and sludge treatment. Together, th-ey provide a comprehensive range of...
THAT’S THE POWER OF POO!
David Hartley explains how Anglian Water is generating enough energy from its combined heat and power (CHP) plants to run a town the size...
Happy Birthday dear digdat
Utility mapping solution digdat, turns 20 this year. To celebrate, company director Kevin Brown reflects back on the last two decades delivering online solutions...
Time for a career change
Following continued growth, Watertrain, the UK’s predominant water utility sector training provider, has launched a recruitment drive.
A number of learning and development roles have...
160th anniversary of Katrine Aqueduct marked with Queen Victoria re-enactment
The 160th anniversary of the Katrine Aqueduct, one of Scotland’s most important pieces of infrastructure, was marked with a special re-enactment of its official...
Autopsy reveals Sidmouth fatberg’s dirty secrets
Household cooking fats and hygiene products played a pivotal role in the formation of the giant fatberg found lurking under a Devon seaside town,...
Smooth operations – planning for onsite treatment success
Tightening environmental standards and the rising cost of tankering wastewater mean more and more industrial process companies are taking control of their own treatment...
London sewer upgrade award win
Thames Water has won a top engineering award for an innovative £20 million upgrade of a Victorian sewer in central London.
The state-of-the-art King’s Scholars’...
atg Evoqua provides water disinfection solutions in Ireland
James Leigh, Regional Disinfection Lead at atg Evoqua explains how the company developed a product to meet a specific need.
Irish Water is carrying out...
Challenging Treatment Challenges
Things can only get better so it’s said…... For the UK water industry this has meant the need to produce better effluent quality, with...
Improving monitoring and wastewater assets to reach Zero Pollutions by 2030
By Lewis Brown
Gaining a better understanding
Southern Water is a company in transformation and achieving zero pollutions by 2030 is one of the many ambitious...
Delivering projects within budget and on programme
C.G.Godfrey Limited have been the authorised distributor of Qua-vac BV’s Vacuflow® technology in the UK since 1987. In the years since they have become...
Athea to reap social, environmental and economic benefits from state-of-the-art treatment plant
The opening of Athea’s new Wastewater Treatment Plant is the equivalent of upgrading from 1970s Ford Cortina to a 2019 Hybrid Electric Vehicle, bringing...
Bringing the lab to the water – break-through technology for continuous water monitoring
SouthWestSensor Ltd has developed a nanodroplet microfluidics based platform technology that brings lab analysis to the water. Perfectly suited for continuous monitoring of nutrients...
Great interest shown in Photonic Measurements range of UV254 analysers at Aquatech 2019
Photonic Measurements were exhibiting the full range of their UV254 measurement products at Aquatech in Amsterdam in November. The show attracted an international audience...