The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has said that water industry regulator Ofwat needs to work with Government to build the evidence base for extending competition to the household water retail market before Ministers make the decision on whether to proceed.
Ofwat has said that the introduction of household competition in the water sector could deliver up to £3 billion in benefits to customers –and the regulator is calling for the government to take an early decision on the issue.
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.