Scottish Water has completed work on a £1.4m solar scheme at a site near Edinburgh which is set to save 221 tonnes of carbon a year.
Technology platform Kraken and Portsmouth Water have announced the launch of The Water Lab to improve customer experience across the utilities sector.
The ‘Net Zero Hub’, led by Severn Trent Water and based at Strongford, Stoke-on-Trent, will deploy cutting-edge technology, including Siemens gPROMS digital twin, to reduce and remove CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions, which account for 57% of all emissions from the wastewater treatment process.
Mapal has surpassed its fund target of £400,000 via Crowdcube, with 475 new investors choosing to inject over £467,000 into the business that has completed over 100 installations of its energy-saving, wastewater aeration solutions.
Yorkshire Water will hold a supplier day in Leeds on 30 March to allow businesses in the wastewater sector to showcase how they can help the utility tackle a number of challenges it faces in sludge management and treatment.
Industry body Water UK, which represents all the UK water companies, is running its national summer Water’s Worth Saving campaign for the first time throughout the winter months.
Scottish Water has unveiled plans for a new £21 million state-of-the-art Waste Water Treatment Works upgrade in Winchburgh.
Severn Trent Plc is today hosting a Capital Markets Day, focusing on the company’s approach to sustainability and the benefits it can deliver both for the environment and for wider stakeholders.
United Utilities is looking to suppliers to provide market input on the development of Demand Side Flexibility Services as part of its energy strategy.
High-tech engineering company Lontra, the developer of a revolutionary new design for an air compressor - is to build a new manufacturing facility in Warwickshire for its innovative industrial compressors.
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.