In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing, Philip Gaffey, Managing Director of Gaffey, UK-based specialists in the design and manufacture of advanced in-situ chemical generation and blending systems for the global water treatment market, takes an in-depth look at the impact of Brexit on biocides regulation and the risk for the water sector supply chain.

An innovative solution by Thames Water has been awarded £1.9 million for an inovative project using robotic underwater technology to modernise the water treatment process in Ofwat’s £42 million Water Breakthrough Challenge competition.

Essex & Suffolk Water has completed a £14 million upgrade to its Hanningfield Water Treatment Works (WTW) which will enhance the resilience and quality of drinking water for more than a million people across Essex.

The expansion of one of Bristol’s key utilities sites will get under way early next year after planners gave the go ahead for an investment of more than £100 million by Wessex Water to keep pace with the city’s rapid growth.

Southern Water has apologised to customers in the Waterside, New Forest area (postcodes areas SO40 and SO45) of Southampton who are likely to experience either low pressure or a loss of water supply.

Watercycle Technologies Ltd, a UK deep tech company focused on developing sustainable, high-yield, low-cost, mineral extraction and water treatment systems, has for the first time, successfully produced lithium carbonate from naturally occurring geothermal brines in the North East of England.

Constructed wetlands could successfully deliver a natural alternative to chemically treating wastewater before it is returned to the environment, according to the findings an investigation by Wessex Water on its pioneering site at Cromhall Water Recycling Centre.

Northumbrian Water has invested £1.9 million in innovative UV technology as part of the disinfection system at its water treatment works at Lumley, in County Durham.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Health and Safety Executive has published new guidance from the UK Government to businesses that use chemicals on the actions they should take now to minimise any disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit. 

A multi-disciplinary research project at the University of Bath is aiming to develop an efficient, portable and low cost continuous treatment system for contaminated drinking water for poor rural communities in developing countries is using 3D printing to generate rapid prototypes and test them.