Pioneering research examines plastics risk to drinking water
A pioneering new UK knowledge transfer research project has been launched to examine the impact of microplastics on human health as a crucial forerunner to the regulatory powers needed to tackle plastic’s presence in...
Which Flavours of Asset Risk should you Capture?
Asset rich companies have long understood the risk to performance and service delivery from deterioration of their assets. But the leading companies are now looking to combine their understanding of deterioration with their knowledge...
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...
Customer satisfaction is flat lining – we must focus on our service offering to...
The government’s announcements in late September of a raft of new coronavirus restrictions has taken us into a new period of challenge and uncertainty for businesses across the county. The effects of continued economic...
How leakage reduction can support goals to minimise carbon emissions
The water industry is estimated to be responsible for one per cent of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions per annum. In this article, Watertrain highlights the role of leakage reduction in the industry’s efforts to tackle...
Millennial Relationship Management
It’s often only the benefit of time that allows us to see how our predecessors have shaped the economic world we live in today. We can look back to see the impact of the...
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...
Affinity tops leak reduction league
Affinity Water have scored the best leakage results of any UK water company in 2023. James Curtis, Head of Leakage, explains how they did it.
The UK’s biggest water-only supplier have beaten their leakage target...
The hidden benefits of electrochlorination
Drinking water providers around the world are under constant pressure to employ equipment and technologies which comply with increasingly stringent legal and legislative requirements. Perhaps less obvious though, are the ‘hidden’ benefits which this...
Management of Biosolids Recycling
Scottish Water produces sewage sludge (Biosolids) as a natural by-product of the biological waste water treatment process. This sludge is then further treated to produce a biosolids product using various complex treatments such as...