Minding our Ultra-Low Effluent Ps & Qs
Undeniably one of the major challenges in the AMP6 wastewater delivery programme – and well into AMP7 – are the strategies, technologies and scale of the requirements to meet the ultra-low total phosphate standards...
Renew or Rehabilitate: removing the guesswork…
Help is at hand from Pipeline Services
Key budgetary decisions can only be taken by water companies when they know the current state of their pipeline infrastructure. While accurate data on pipe condition has always...
Water treatment is at the heart of green dairies
Dairy operations – involving the processing and packaging of up to one billion litres of milk a year – are energy and water intensive procedures, producing hundreds of cubic metres of high strength wastewater...
Does your pump supplier tick all the boxes?
As an industry at the forefront of climate change that contributes around 1% of national GHG emissions*, it’s no surprise that things are changing quickly in the water sector. Many of these developments are...
Project will improve moors
Yorkshire Water and partners Moors for the Future have embarked on a catchment management project in Snailsden and Thurlston Moors.
The work is part of a £2 million programme, in support of Natural England, to...
Alarm Bells for the Next Five Years?
Environmental experts at the Copenhagen summit last year expressed concern that half of the world will suffer from water shortages within 30 years.
HAVE YOUR SAY ON KEY ISSUES
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Is your Water fluid or is it turning to Ice?
In our changing world of water delivery to customers the choice of provider is driven by how the customer is treated. With experience and legislation, we’re all competent at making sure the quality of...
Severn Trent and Dee Valley join forces
Dee Valley says that customers can look forward to new customer service initiatives, low bills and investment as the company joins forces with Severn Trent.
The pledge came as Dee Valley was welcomed into an...
Utility firms reinforcing critical infrastructure in light of flood ‘epidemic’ and storm forecasts
Those alarming aerial images of towns and villages across the UK being engulfed by murky water might be fading from our memories, but we are heading into another winter beset by frequent storms, according...
Clean water is like medicine
WaterAid employs about 1,000 people in 38 countries to provide safe water and toilets to communities. Its work is carried out in partnership with hundreds of non-governmental organisations, government agencies, academic institutions and private...