Despite the water companies’ AMP7 business plans showing that the blossoming bioresources market is set for significant growth over the next five years, a number of practical and operational obstacles remain, according to long-established pump and mixer manufacturer, Landia.
Severn Trent is trialling the use of fibre optic cables inside its pipes, in a bid to reduce the number of leaks and bursts across its network.
CCm Technologies in partnership with Severn Trent has been awarded approximately £1 million government funding to explore new sustainable ways to recycle wastewater and convert it into a commercial product.
The Government has today confirmed that £1.2 billion of funding is being made available to develop a state-of-the-art supercomputer, meaning that predicting severe weather and the impacts of climate change will be faster and more accurate than ever before.
Northumbrian Water, CGI and the Water Hub are offering inventors and creators up to £25,000 to help them turn an idea which will both protect the environment and improve rural internet connectivity, into a reality.
Scottish Water has worked with partners to turn a surfboard into a state-of-the-art automated inspection device to gather information on the condition of infrastructure vital to the supply of Edinburgh’s drinking water.
Reserachers at the University of Illinois have developed an advanced polymer device that can purify and remediate arsenic-contaminated water in a single step.
Anglian Water engineers are about to begin a trial using fibre optic cables to detect hard to find leaks invisible to the naked eye in their water pipe network.
Bombora has now contracted more than 70% of its ground breaking £17 million Pembrokeshire Demonstration Project - the wave energy project is currently on schedule for deployment in mid-2020.
Leading public services provider, Amey, is developing a new augmented reality app which will be launched in 2020 and piloted across the Severn Trent Water contract to help fight ‘unflushables’.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.