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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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After completion of the largest annual capital programme in Bristol Water’s history at some £50 million, Chairman Moger Woolley said that the company’s proposals for its 25 year water strategy had identified a need to double investment levels for a sustained period.
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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Black & Veatch has been appointed as part of a consortium led by Parsons Brinckerhoff to undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and related engineering studies for tidal power generation in the Severn Estuary.
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
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Severn Trent Water has published its draft Water Resources Management Plan 2009 setting out its proposed 25 year strategy for maintaining the balance between supply and demand for water in the region and maintaining a service level of no more than three hosepipe bans per 100 years.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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Northumbrian Water have been fined £4,000 in Sunderland Magistrates Court for seriously polluting a stream in County Durham with raw sewage.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
3i, Europe's leading mid-market private equity company, has signed an agreement to support the management buy-out of the UK and Ireland infrastructure businesses from the Uponor Corporation.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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The PAS55 standard has been awarded to Wessex Water for good management of its assets. The aim of PAS55 is to ensure that a business manages its assets in a way that is totally consistent from the boardroom through to day-to-day maintenance work.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Thames Water has welcomed today’s announcement by the new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, that he has withdrawn the legal challenge to the Government's decision to grant planning permission for the Thames Gateway desalination plant.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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River water quality is to be improved as major work begins at a County Durham sewage treatment works. The work, which started last week, will take up to two years to complete and improve water quality of the River Tees.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is starting work on two new projects worth a total of £23.8 million.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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United Utilities PLC has announced that the 4D consortium, in which United Utilities has a 40 per cent share, has secured an extension to its contract with Southern Water through to 31 March 2015. The other members of the consortium are Costain and MWH.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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The UK's largest water supplier, Thames Water, today publishes a plan to reduce the risk of hosepipe bans and more severe water restrictions in the future.
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has selected Primavera software solutions for project and portfolio management (PPM) across its operations to help ensure the success of its capital investment programme, set at £915 million for the period 2008-2010.
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has installed a hydro electric turbine at Llyn Brenig reservoir to produce clean energy and take another step to reducing the company’s carbon footprint.
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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Scottish Water has signed three IT outsourcing contracts worth a total of £120m to Tata Consultancy Services, Fujitsu Services and BT which it expects to cut its operating costs by £8million over the next eight years.
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Albion Chemicals, the UK and Ireland’s leading chemicals distributor, has agreed an exclusive working partnership with Arch Water Products to present Calcium Hypochlorite to the UK water utilities market. 
Maintenance-In-Place (MIP) Pumps made by Börger are successfully removing grit from Wessex Water’s Bristol sewage treatment works at Avonmouth.
The measurement and control of Free Chlorine has never been easier than with the new FCA-22 Analyzer System from Electro-Chemical Devices, Inc., which features a virtually plumb-and-play design.
