Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney renewed her attack on Thames Water in a House of Commons debate last week, accusing the water company of dumping over 72 billion litres of raw sewage into rivers in London since 2020 and accruing billions of pounds of debt.
Pressures are mounting on the Government to publish its contingency plans amidst growing concerns about Thames Water’s financial position, following a report in the Financial Times that the water company is lobbying the government and Ofwat to let it increase bills, pay dividends and face lower fines.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has quietly amended insolvency legislation to update the Special Administration Regime for water companies in England and Wales.
Ian Newcombe, Partner at national law firm Bond Dickinson LLP looks at some of the challenges that suppliers in the new retail water market will face and offers some practical tips on how to minimise their impact.
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.