Fifty senior industry and NGO executives met Defra ministers yesterday to discuss multi-million pound plans to make greater use of anaerobic digestion - the technology which produces energy from organic material like food waste and manure and already in use in the water sector.
Flood management tool FloodRanger, from software developers, Discovery Software has been upgraded to enable environment experts anywhere in the world to plan for – rather than just respond to – the consequences of climate change.
A European funded project to survey the seabed off the northern coast of Ireland, parts of which have not been surveyed since Victorian times, has started to provide some spectacular results showing underwater cliffs, reefs, caves and what may have been a lagoon.
The Secretary of State for Energy, John Hutton, has granted planning permission for a prototype tidal stream generator to be tested in the Humber Estuary near Grimsby.
The City of Portsmouth Water Division in the United States has started to install a system that uses radio and Ethernet connections to check the nearly 8,000 water meters in the Portsmouth water system.
Microbial Solutions Ltd (Oxford, UK) a newly formed spin-out company from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, a research centre owned by the Natural Environment Research Council, has announced that it has raised £1.2 million to commercialise its innovative wastewater treatment technology.
A device which makes it easier and quicker for people to fill sandbags is proving an essential piece of equipment for agencies across the world which need to respond quickly and inexpensively to flooding emergencies.
Two massive mobile pumps capable of discharging flood water at a lightening-quick rate of more than three million litres an hour have been given their first run out by Environment Agency field officers.
Bronkhorst UK of Cambridge, market leaders in mass flow metering and control, has introduced a series of fully integrated Liquid Dosing Systems, covering an enormous flow range from a few nanolitres to 1000kg/hr and beyond.