Anglian Water has joined forces with the Womens Utilities Network (WUN) to build on their inclusion focus and to help them build on their goal of being a truly diverse organisation.
Midlands water and waste company Severn Trent has been named as the top UK quoted company for its commitment to female representation at board level.
A glass ceiling is still “looming over” women working across the water industry and despite some progress, the sector is being held back by exclusion, Ofwat chief executive Rachel Fletcher told a British Water conference.
More and more women are applying for manual frontline roles at Thames Water after the company changed the ‘masculine’ wording of its job adverts.
British Water has committed to increasing the number of women on its non-executive board and has urged the rest of the industry to follow its lead.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.