Sustainable wastewater treatment with the Ecoflo Coco Filter

Premier Tech Water and Environment ensure a sustainable and eco-friendly environment, with coconut-husk based wastewater treatment For over 25 years, global company Premier Tech Water and Environment has been protecting our properties and our environment...

Chemical dosing in tricky locations

Even as the covid-19 pandemic continues to stifle investment, water companies have to meet the more stringent requirements for the removal of phosphorus from wastewater brought in under AMP7. Graham Ward at chemical dosing...

Improved activated sludge plant performance with OMEX

Improved coagulation, Lower final effluent COD, Lower suspended solids. Industrial wastewater treatment often involves an activated sludge plant as part of the treatment process. However due to the nature of an industrial production process, the...

Testing in the Tyrol

In the extensive area covered by the ‘AIZ’ Wastewater Management Association, a large number of pumps are constantly at work moving wastewater into the right channels and ultimately to the sewage treatment plant. VEGA...

Using AI to understudy system experts and optimise plant performance

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are making a large impact in many fields, and the water sector is no different. With operators facing constant pressure to boost plant efficiency and to deliver maximum value...

Southern water resilience projects

For the past two years Southern Water has been conducting a far reaching project aimed at delivering Zero Pollutions by 2040. We aim as a business to have achieved our ambition for zero pollution,...

Wastewater technician training continues despite challenging year

British Water’s wastewater treatment technicians’ training continued successfully through 2020 despite the Covid-19 crisis, with the accreditation receiving Environment Agency praise. Onsite assessment procedures, carried out by a workplace assessor as part of British Water’s...

Smart new technologies can play a vital role in addressing plastic pollution crisis in...

From source to sea, our waters are contaminated by a plastics scourge. A new study by the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Water Management Institute offers a number of technological solutions aimed...

Circular economy technologies highlighted at virtual event

Three innovations bringing circular economy thinking closer to water utilities’ daily operations were the focus of the latest Water Action Platform webinar. The event, which took place on 12 November 2020 and was hosted by...

Fuzzy logic clear up blockage prediction for Yorkshire Water

Wastewater monitoring has proved a difficult nut to crack for water companies in the face of increased pressure from regulators, government and customers to reduce pollution incidents across the UK. Yorkshire Water, in collaboration...