Northern Ireland Water has awarded a contract meter reading and billing services worth an estimated £2.8 million.
The contract covers resources and related equipment to supplement a Northern Ireland Water team to undertake field and office based activities associated with data reconciliation.
A number of methods which will be used by the team to reconcile data on the Northern Ireland Water non-domestic data set including desktop analysis and field investigations which require external resource for a management role, an analyst role and a number of desktop and field roles.
Walsall-based firm Echo Managed Services Ltd, one of two companies in the bidding for the work, has won the contract, which will run for an initial period of 2 years
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.
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