NI Water plans £8m environmental improvement scheme
The Glen Water & Northern Ireland Water Project Team has briefed council officials on an £8 million scheme to restore on-site lagoons back to grassland at Ballynacor treatment works.
Severn Trent Costain MD calls for more innovative approach to water and wastewater services for business
The Managing Director of Severn Trent Costain has called for a more innovative approach to water and wastewater services for businesses and stressed the need for added value ‘behind the stop tap’, where the services of traditional water utility companies often terminate.
Yorkshire Water removes over 5 tonnes of fat from single sewer blockage
Yorkshire Water has removed more than five tonnes of fat in a single blockage from a stretch of sewer in South Yorkshire.
Galliford Try working on early stages of AMP6 procurement
Galliford Try plc, the housebuilding and construction group, said it is now working with water sector clients in the early stages of AMP6 procurement for 2015-2020 in its Interim Management Statement issued this morning for the period from 1 July 2012 to 8 November 2012.
Dŵr Cymru invests £153m in six months - up 35% on last year
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water invested £153 million in capital projects in the six months to September 2012 - £40 million more than the same period last year. The investment will further improve services for the company’s 1.4 million customers.
Southern Water launches customer engagement website
Southern Water has launched a new website aimed at encouraging local communities to have their say on the shape of services provided by the utility over the rest of the decade and beyond.
Pennon Group wins 25 year London waste contract
Pennon Group Plc, owners of South West Water, has just announced that its subsidiary, Viridor South London Limited, has signed a 25 year South London Waste Treatment Services Public Private Partnership contract with the South London Waste Partnership of the London Boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton.
Emerging markets drive growth for Arcadis
Global engineering consultancy Arcadis has reported strong third quarter results with gross revenue increasing year-on-year by 34% to €650 million (£522 million).
Severn Trent Costain signs deal with dairy in switch first
Major UK dairy First Milk has become the first business customer to switch water supplier since new Defra regulation
s after it signed a deal with Severn Trent Costain (STC).
£1.2m project in Glasgow to upgrade pipes and reduce leakage
Scottish Water is about to start a project which will provide almost 30,000 people in parts of the East End and south of Glasgow with improved security of supply of drinking water.
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Albion Water appoints new Director of Business Development
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development. -
Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
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. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
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. -
IED compliance – using automated sliding floodgates to support secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites
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