A new Report shows that against a background of environmental best practice, UK businesses still waste 310 million litres of water on a daily basis with office workers using as much as 35 litres of water per day, or three times more water than actually needed.
A recent
Institute of Civil
Engineers' (ICE) report suggests treated sewage effluent could
be a solution to the UK's
growing water shortage problems. Martin
Jolly, Technical Specialist at Earth Tech, a global provider of water and
wastewater treatment services, considers the environmental and economic issues associated
with this and other alternative methods of clean water generation.
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.