The water industry is being urged toaddress leakage, catastrophic main failures and contamination by investing in the next generation of advanced hydraulic networks.

The German company Herrenknecht constructing the giant, state-of-the-art Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which will be used for the biggest waste water tunnel ever to be built in Scotland reached a key stage recently.

Sewage is now being used to power a heating system at the Scottish Borders Campus in the Scottish Borders.

The government has announced an investment of £8.2 million to support advances in water treatment and infrastructure research through Cranfield University’s Water Science Institute.

Seven leading contractors and consultants have joined forces with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to help fund a new state-of-the-art engineering exhibition and learning centre.

Masdar City in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has officially inaugurated a seawater desalination pilot plant able to be powered by renewable energy built and operated by SUEZ.

Veolia has been collaborating on Masdar’s ambitious Renewable Energy Water Desalination Program. sharing the costs to build and operate a pilot plant with the same characteristics as future large scale and low energy consumption desalination plants.