Chemcatcher

Chemcatcher® is a highly versatile and cost-effective passive sampling device for monitoring a wide variety of pollutants in potable, surface, coastal and marine waters. It is now being used worldwide to help solve a...

Colilert®-18: Confidence, Quality and Efficiency in Water Testing

Designed to make water microbiology simple, IDEXX provides easy, rapid and accurate testing methods, along with a full line of water testing supplies, equipment and accessories, allowing users to quickly and efficiently identify contamination...

Monitoring leads to successful scheme

The value of good wastewater monitoring and analysis has been illustrated in spectacular fashion through a scheme which has tackled the damage caused by pesticides. Analysis that revealed worrying pesticide levels led to the creation...

Superpipe arrives in Blackpool

A massive new outfall pipe measuring over 2 miles long arrived off the coast of Blackpool this morning ready to be installed in a huge trench under the sea. The pipe’s amazing journey started off...

Innovative AVK UK valve and hydrant solutions on Scottish water schemes

AVK UK Limited has been commissioned to supply valves and hydrants on two schemes for end client Scottish Water. The schemes, Gorbals (Corsehouse) Pumping Station for contractor ABV Alliance (Amey, Black & Veatch JV) and...

Clean water is not a given. It is the result of painstaking cleaning processes....

The cleaning and treatment of fresh water and sewage is associated with hazards just as much as the maintenance of the sewage system itself: The presence of toxic or flammable gases and oxygen deficiencies...

University of Bath develops new cheap, sustainable water treatment devices for developing countries

A multi-disciplinary research project at the University of Bath hopes to develop an efficient, portable and low cost continuous treatment system for contaminated drinking water for poor rural communities in developing countries. The research team...

Delivering first class water

Welsh Water has a network of over 26,500km of water mains suppling 3 million customers in parts of Wales and Hereford with over 800 million litres of drinking water every day. While most of...

Realising the value of data

David Price, Associate Director at Amec Foster Wheeler, looks at the benefits for companies in taking greater ownership of data. Population growth and climate change; water stress; stricter environmental regulation; ageing infrastructure and networks; improving...

Building Smart Water Networks at South West Water

By Martin Doherty Head of Service Improvement South West Water Most companies in the British water industry have started the journey of creating a ‘smart’ system of management and control over their pipe network. The underground system...