Monitoring and Analysis
Employing technology: Using methods of the future to protect our most ancient resource
United Utilities has embarked on an innovative trial to better understand the issues facing the North West’s waters. Collaborating with Graythwaite Estate, the North West’s water provider has deployed cutting-edge water quality sensors in locations along one of the...
A history of innovation – how Palintest is supporting the UK water industry
Palintest has been at the forefront of water analysis technology for decades – and has a long-standing relationship with the UK’s water sector.
The company, which is part of Halma plc, has deep roots in the water industry and has...
Achieving laboratory precision in Portable Turbidity Measurement
Navigating the nuances of turbidity measurement in water quality assessment presents challenges, often due to inaccuracies caused by stray light, intricate handling, and time-consuming calibration processes. Addressing these concerns, Lovibond® introduces the TB350, a groundbreaking portable turbidimeter engineered to...
Reducing spillages and pollution incidents caused by customer-side blockages
The spillages and pollution incidents that result from sewer blockages can have devastating consequences, particularly when these incidents happen customer-side.
As explained in the recent ‘Customer Experiences of Sewer Flooding’ report published by Ofwat and CCW; “being flooded with sewage...
Digital wastewater maps future for sewage management
A wastewater intelligence solution is helping improve community health in a partnership first between Scottish Water and Kando. Water Industry Journal spoke to Dr Andrew Engeli, CSO at Kando, about the shared vision for a smart networked wastewater system.
Wastewater...
Wastewater treatment plants can ‘catch a cold’
Just like humans, wastewater treatment plants can get sick through viral attacks. Research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, reveals the implications for the local environment if a plant gets ‘sick’.
In the sewage industry, the ‘work’ of wastewater plants...
MCERTS Class 1 radars and controllers offer users all the options
In 2021, level and pressure instrumentation manufacturer, VEGA, became the first manufacturer to offer MCERTS Class one certification over a 5m range - either as a stand-alone sensor or with controller as a complete system.
Since then the company say...
Affordable solutions to the UK’s wastewater pollution crisis
It’s policy making sleight of hand to claim that the cost of preventing spills in UK rivers is more than £1,000 per household per year. What a scary number? What a false argument? There are clear steps now that...
Yorkshire Water expands AI use against pollution
Yorkshire Water is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict blockages within its sewer network and reduce pollution risks.
A successful pilot of a solution co-created by Yorkshire Water, Siemens and The University of Sheffield has been completed...
Why it’s smart to increase your sewer network monitoring
Effectively managing hundreds of thousands of miles of sewer network is an unenviable task. And with ever-changing industry regulation, stricter statutory targets, additional compliance and a growing abundance of technology, that task could easily be regarded as insurmountable. How...
Buried or submerged closed pipe flow metering
Buried flow meters for lowest installed cost
Many seasoned water professionals may throw their hands skyward at the mere suggestion of burying flow meters underground. They will more than likely remember the manufacturer promises made a decade or more ago,...
“It’s one minute to midnight”: why adaption is now as vital as mitigation in climate emergency
Opening up COP26, Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared “it’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock” in his attempt to illustrate the seriousness of the climate threat we all face.
While world leaders gathered at COP26, the Environment Agency...
The future of Odour & H2S Monitoring at wastewater treatment plants
Author: Andres Quijano, Solution Design Engineer - North Americas at Envirosuite
The wastewater treatment industry has come a long way since its inception, playing the role of an unsung hero in our lives. According to a report by Melbourne Water,...
Digitising engagement to support a collaborative approach
Severn Trent
As our drainage and wastewater systems face ever increasing pressures they need to become more resilient. Whilst sewerage companies already carry out wastewater catchment planning to mitigate future risks, these wastewater assets interact with other drainage systems, which...
Flow Cytometry: An alternative to classic HPC measurement
Quantifying bacterial concentrations in water samples is a necessary process to evaluate and contain microbiological contamination. Heterotrophic plate count (HPC) measurement is still the standard method to determine microbial contamination, yet a number of more modern methods are emerging....
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 to the consumer with minimal...
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, with predictive analytics and automated...
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 with Siemens and The University...
Bath academics help to track coronavirus in schools by monitoring wastewater
Bath researchers to take part in TERM project to monitor wastewater in 70 UK schools for evidence of coronavirus
Working with other UK universities, they aim to create an early-warning system to prevent outbreaks
Project could...
Flood prevention through waste water network monitoring
This year in the UK, November 9th-15th was the Environment Agency’s annual Flood Action Week, which aims to encourage the public to better understand their property’s individual flood risk, especially as the climate is changing and weather patterns are...
New low cost Compact 80 GHz level sensors
Water and waste industries – more to choose
The VEGA radar family has grown, with the latest VEGAPULS series of units for continuous level measurement. Based on the latest FMCW 80 GHz technology and a specially developed radar level microchip...
Data logger measures level, conductivity and temperature
With the new CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) versions of the high-precision DCX level data loggers for depths of up to 200m, KELLER AG offers a highly integrated, complete pressure measurement solution for water management.
This data logger for long-term monitoring...
New headset offers vision for the future
An innovative and now key piece of equipment came into its own for Trant Engineering Limited during the company’s work at Weir Wood reservoir.
The intelligent, interactive headset - keyed into Microsoft Teams - deployed by its field-based engineers had...
Quick return on investment with Valmet’s superior solids measurement solutions
The measurement of solids in wastewater treatment has always been a questionable proposition. Limitations in measurement accuracy along with long term reliability have been a concern to plant operators and engineers.
Additionally, harsh and sometimes uncontrolled process conditions (e.g. fat,...
Big data goes down the plughole to fight future public health threats
Scientists at the University of Bath’s Water Innovation and Research Centre are developing new ways of monitoring public health at home and in low-income countries by analysing wastewater
Rising antimicrobial resistance and fast-spreading epidemics like Ebola and the Zika virus...
Turning the tide – Microplastics detection in wastewater
Understanding the impact of microplastics on the environment and on human and animal health is a crucial challenge for the next century. However, before the true impact of microplastics can be calculated, first we must refine our methods of...
Improving monitoring and wastewater assets to reach Zero Pollutions by 2030
By Lewis Brown
Gaining a better understanding
Southern Water is a company in transformation and achieving zero pollutions by 2030 is one of the many ambitious targets underpinning that journey.
We’re delving deeper and gaining a better understanding of why incidents happen,...
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 from environmental monitoring to waste...
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 in 2014, Photonic Measurements has...
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 fresh water scarcity in large...