Yorkshire Water began work yesterday on a nature-based wetland in Ilkley, marking the next step of a £60 million investment to improve water treatment and the water quality of the river Wharfe.
Uisce Éireann investment across County Donegal continues with a wastewater upgrade getting underway this month in Pettigo - significant upgrades will be carried out at the existing wastewater treatment plant in the village.
Wessex Water is trialling smaller-scale versions of wetlands in Wiltshire to help expand natural methods to protect some of the waterways near the city of Salisbury.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is getting ready to go out tender with a contract for a Constructed Wetlands Nutrient Mitigation Scheme worth an estimated £18 million.
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is calling for a national pilot scheme to be established in the UK by 2025, to make treatment wetlands the default option for meeting new nutrient neutrality targets and to establish and develop an effective market in nutrient trading and offsetting by creating a nutrient offsetting code.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
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.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.