A cutting-edge simulator that recreates the devastating effects of a flood has been created to test products designed to defend homes, businesses and people from flooding.
An innovative low-cost water purification technology can provide low-cost, point of use water purification without the need for electricity or piped water supply.
Sheffield-based Pulse Tidal, the tidal stream power provider that specialises in sourcing energy from shallow waters, has been granted €8 million in EU funding.
An £8 million project that will produce tools capable of accurately estimating the energy yield of major wave and tidal stream energy has been approved by the Energy Technologies Institute.
Radical new designs shortlisted in a global competition run by the UK’s Carbon Trust are set to accelerate the installation of thousands of wind turbines around Britain’s coast by slashing the costs of construction and opening up deeper waters for development.
Three UK-based banks will start offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms from today. The scheme - supported by HM Treasury and Department of Energy and Climate Change - could enable around £1.4bn of onshore wind projects to move to construction over the next 3 years.
Hosted by Philip Green, Chief Executive of United Utilities, and Mark Price, Managing Director of Waitrose, business leaders from the worlds of utilities, retail and agriculture last week visited some of the key sites in the North West already making use of anaerobic digestion.
Halcrow and Cardiff University’s School of Engineering have been working together to develop a new approach to integrated water management and investment planning.
Water UK, the body which represents UK water companies at national and EU level, has called for more research to be undertaken into reduced flow devices.
Recent improvements in pump technology prompted Severn Trent Water (STW) to initiate a de-sludging trial to reduce costs and energy consumption by producing thicker sludge in the Primary Settlement Tank (PST).
Hydro International’s Hydro-Brake® Flow Controls have been installed into a new dam, near Devil’s Bridge, on the Blackburn Brook, just outside Sheffield.
Water quality engineering firm Panton McLeod has celebrated its first work in the UK tourism industry after helping to inspect a water tank at one of the country’s biggest aquariums.
Eimco Water Technologies have been awarded a significant order by BP to supply and install a fresh water manufacturing plant on the FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel) Schiehallion.
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