South West Water has awarded two AMP6 contracts for the supply of pipes worth a total of £5.5 million.
Yorkshire-based company Westwood Pipelines won two contracts which run for five years. The contract for barrier PE pipe is worth £3.5 million, while a separate contract for PE pipe is worth £2 million.
Three companies were in the bidding for the work. The contract went out to tender via the Achilles UVDB system.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.