Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has awarded a contract for an anaerobic digestion facility for the disposal of food waste worth an estimated £150,000.
Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre near Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire has generated 50 GWh of green electricity – the equivalent of powering 13,500 homes for a year.
Water and waste company Severn Trent is progressing with its plans to generate electricity from food waste.
The latest meeting of Ofwat’s sludge working group has raised a number of complex issues about opening up the market to competition, including concerns expressed by the Environment Agency about the potential for a “race to the cheapest cost option” by companies to the detriment of the environment.
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.
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.
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.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.