Operational Resilience: Can more be done to protect water company assets?
The water sector is facing many challenges in the coming years, ranging from climate change and sustainability concerns to ensuring customer affordability and operational resilience.
Within the water industry, a significant portion of critical assets...
Four ways to keep your electric motors fighting fit
Water companies need to ensure that their assets are being maintained appropriately to ensure resilience now, and sustainability in the future. James Thomas, UK Water Industry Manager, ABB, provides four ways to improve the...
Smart working asset management – clean and wastewater
Pressures that face the water industry are highlighted in AMP8, these in turn will place more pressure on ageing assets and supply chain margins.
Regardless of the age of the assets, any Operations Directors and...
Unlocking the key to improved WWTPs operations
Integrating all data sources into a single environment is a fundamental step in the digital transformation of wastewater treatment plants to provide them with comprehensive control of all their processes, according to Idrica’s report...
Pivot to a product mindset to accelerate your digital transformation
No longer is the old adage that “water and electronics don’t mix” entirely true. Ever since the need for digital technologies dramatically accelerated in early 2020, businesses worldwide have invested heavily in digital transformations...
A complete ecosystem: Why essential water transformation is a multi-player project
Water represents one of the world’s most significant and complex industrial challenges. Both water utilities and industrial players face multiple, multifaceted challenges in overcoming water scarcity, energy efficiency and carbon neutrality. The industry knows...
Effective asset management: Using data for greater understanding of the water network
The UK’s water system is riddled with contradictions: Victorian infrastructure is mapped and monitored using machine learning.
Government predicts updating Britain’s combined sewer system would cost between £150bn and £650bn. Water companies are looking instead...
Wolseley Infrastructure unveils cutting-edge products at Utility Week Live
Wolseley Infrastructure, a key distributor to the civils and utilities market, announces the introduction of its latest Cascade Pipelines product range at Utility Week Live.
Cascade Pipelines is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialist...
People are key to digital transformation
With ageing assets, a climate emergency and increasing water scarcity, digital solutions will play a key role in the water sector’s response – but the human touch could be the final piece of the...
Six technology trends for 2023
Pre-emption and prevention, security, reuse, process automation, optimisation and planning are the main challenges for water management this year, say utility tech specialists Idrica.
By 2025, around 3.5 billion people will be living in water-scarce...