Athea to reap social, environmental and economic benefits from state-of-the-art treatment plant

The opening of Athea’s new Wastewater Treatment Plant is the equivalent of upgrading from 1970s Ford Cortina to a 2019 Hybrid Electric Vehicle, bringing greatly improved performance and much higher levels of environmental protection That...

Bringing the lab to the water – break-through technology for continuous water monitoring

SouthWestSensor Ltd has developed a nanodroplet microfluidics based platform technology that brings lab analysis to the water. Perfectly suited for continuous monitoring of nutrients and pollutants in fresh and sea water, covering applications ranging...

Great interest shown in Photonic Measurements range of UV254 analysers at Aquatech 2019

Photonic Measurements were exhibiting the full range of their UV254 measurement products at Aquatech in Amsterdam in November.  The show attracted an international audience with enquiries from 50 countries at the Photonic Measurements stand. Founded...

Automating E.coli quantification in wastewater and surface waters

Novel field instrumentation allows for sampling and accurately monitoring E.coli concentrations in watersheds, reservoirs, receiving water bodies and throughout the wastewater treatment process. By Dan E. Angelescua and Andreas Hausot Climate change trends, increasing urbanization and...

Smart sensor to target deadly legionella bug

Potential killer in UK water systems is monitored via ‘internet of things’. A pair of young entrepreneurs have developed a revolutionary smart sensor that is purpose-built to wage war on the deadly legionella bug. Technology expert...

Dissolved Methane Monitoring and Control

Using cutting edge technology, Rostech Environmental brings a new approach to dissolved methane monitoring and methane stripping. and control of wastewater are outdated, inefficient and often don’t work. Rostech Environmental since it’s incorporation in 2016 have...

Optimising water quality management

Following its introduction 12 months ago, ATi UK’s SiteBox has been hailed as a global breakthrough in versatile water quality monitoring by industry experts. Managing Director, Dr Mike Strahand, discusses how this early-warning optimisation...

PYDRO – Self- Powered Water Network Solutions

How much water do you think is lost in our current water networks? On average it is 30% worldwide, due to a lack of data and outdated technology.  To improve the ressource efficiency, intelligent and...

Meeting the challenges ahead

The contemporary water industry faces many challenges, not least of which is maintaining the essential infrastructure over a huge geographic area, especially given this infrastructure is sometimes located in hard-to-reach places. At the same time,...

The never-ending battle against emerging contaminants: a focus on PFAS

What are emerging contaminants? Emerging contaminants are likely to be a never-ending nightmare. Why? As we develop, advance and expand our pharmaceutical prowess, create new industrial chemicals, new pesticides and herbicides, surfactants and personal care...