Wessex Water has been working in partnership with Wiltshire Mind to produce an animated mental health awareness video, highlighting the common issues associated with mental ill health.
Anglian Water is offering new course opportunities to train in engineering or construction and utility operations provided by The College of West Anglia which could ultimately lead to apprenticeships with their AMP6 Alliance partners.
Water company United Utilities is opening a new £1.5 million technical training centre today to tackle a looming skills shortage.
A new report published by design, engineering and project management consultancy, Atkins, is predicting that UK infrastructure projects, including water, could face higher costs, delays or poor decision making and project delivery as the result of a serious skills shortage.
“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.
bNovate has launched BactoCloud, a secure cloud-based platform that connects and manages its BactoSense instruments, enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of microbial water quality.