£30 million Scottish Water project
Scottish Water is to improve services to more than 54,000 people in parts of the Bearsden, Milngavie, Clydebank and Strathblane areas.
The utility will do so by changing the source of their water supply from...
Microplastics in water
The abundance of plastic debris in the environment is an increasing concern since this contamination is ubiquitous and found in habitats as remote as the mid-Atlantic archipelagos and Antarctica. Notably, the prevalence of microplastics...
Smart Storm – tomorrows technology here today
Smart Storm Ltd is an innovative UK owned Water and Wastewater instrumentation and solutions company, which pushes water technology to new levels through continual innovation. Smart Storm is underpinned by a large research and...
United Utilities rolls out Systems Thinking approach to wastewater network management
If the water and wastewater industry is to improve resilience and meet the expectations of customers and regulators, the traditional reactive approach to operational asset management must evolve.
For United Utilities’ wastewater operation this means...
Solutions for the Wastewater Treatment Industry
Anaerobic digestion is one of the principal methods used by the water industry to treat primary sewage sludge. It is a preferred process in that it produces methane as a usable by-product, reduces sludge...
Erskine waste water treatment works goes green
Green energy is helping to power Scottish Water’s waste water treatment facility in Erskine.
A £500,000 investment made by the utility’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons has seen 1,720 solar PV panels installed at the...
United Utilities installs revolutionary wastewater treatment technology
United Utilities is installing revolutionary wastewater treatment technology from Holland in four of its treatment plants in North West England over the next five years.
The company was the first in the UK to trial...
Winter home for migrating birds protected by environmentally sensitive solution delivered by Selwood pumping...
Selwood’s pumping solutions specialists rose to an environmental challenge when they were tasked with installing more than 2km of pipework at a protected site that is the winter home for migrating birds.
The 13-mile Swale...
Alternative coagulants: swapping metals for plant-based alternatives
Becci Bragg, from the Science and Optimisation team at South West Water, demonstrates how using more environmentally friendly plant-based alternatives to metal ion coagulants are being introduced and tested at wastewater sites.
Over the last...
Real-time monitoring
Launched last May at IFAT 2018 in Munich, Germany, the patent-pending Proteus BOD real-time biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) monitoring platform enables treatment works to measure the quantity of reactive organic matter in real time....