LEAD Pipe Replacement – the impact on the network
Throughout the UK water companies are aware of the risk of lead contamination, and the potential of acceptable lead levels in drinking supplies being further reduced from the current 10 micrograms per litre. Lead...
£20M IT UPGRADE FUTURE-PROOFS LONDON WATER SUPPLY
The complex computer systems which control London’s drinking water supplies have been upgraded while keeping the taps running in a “monumental” £20 million project by Thames Water.
Moving from the 25-year-old RTAP system to the...
Welsh Water’s smarter catchment management
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...
VICTORIAN KATRINE AQUEDUCT UPGRADE COMPLETED
A major upgrade to the Katrine Aqueduct, which was built in Victorian times and serves more than 1.3 million people in parts of Greater Glasgow and the central belt, has been completed.
The £20 million...
Makeover of the century for Lancashire water works
A water works built to quench the thirst of Lancastrians during the roaring 1920s is getting a major makeover in the 2020s.
Hodder, built near Slaidburn village in the Forest of Bowland in 1927, contributes...
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...
Safeguarding water quality with WRAS approved technology
Drinking water quality is of key importance to public health and the provision of safe drinking water has been recognised as one of the greatest technological and public health advances of the last century....
Data logger measures level, conductivity and temperature
With the new CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) versions of the high-precision DCX level data loggers for depths of up to 200m, KELLER AG offers a highly integrated, complete pressure measurement solution for water management.
This...
Taking the lead on LEAD
Replace lead water supply pipes in under 2 hours…no major excavations, and minimal disruption.
Awareness of the potential health problems caused by lead in the water supply, particularly in infants and children is growing. Although...
Wat-er quality job!
As the country’s largest water company by geographical area, Anglian Water set its standards high to ensure excellent quality drinking water across the region.
Despite water quality compliance scores remaining high for decades, Anglian Water’s...