United Utilities has gone out to tender for early contractor involvement in project development for its £750 million Manchester and Pennines scheme.
Thames Water has proposed a £17.5 million plan to build two overspill tanks to capture sewage and stormwater in response to customers demanding action to protect their homes from sewer flooding.
The regulated UK water industry is continuing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on new infrastructure and operational maintenance in the current 2010-15 AMP5 investment period, in contrast with ongoing weakness in other construction spend, according to a new report on the sector.
Water industry regulator Ofwat has hailed its approach to the 2009 price review, which set the water companies’ investment programme for the next five years, as “ a considerable success.”
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.