Cambi has signed a lease for a compact thermal hydrolysis process (THP) unit to provide additional treatment capacity at Thames Water’s Oxford sewage treatment works.
Severn Trent has unveiled plans to create the world’s first carbon neutral waste treatment plant in Staffordshire - work on the multi-million-pound project of almost £40 million set to start in September.
Severn Trent Water has applied to the Environment Agency to vary its existing environmental permit for its Stoke Bardolph Sewage Treatment Works – enabling it to construct a new thermal hydrolysis plant (THP), associated combustion/thermal plant and biogas upgrade plant.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”