The European Commission will boost competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme.
Innovate UK, the Government’s innovation agency, has launched a new funding competition inviting companies to apply for £2 million of funding to address potential security problems and challenges related to the ‘Internet of Things’.
United Utilities is upgrading the sewerage system serving Grasmere - some of the money will be spent to enhance phosphorus removal at Grasmere wastewater treatment works, while the remainder will be used to keep the local sewer network flowing more smoothly.
Total year-end IT spending by western European utilities is expected to reach $18.4 billion by 2019, according to a new IT spending forecast report.
Severn Trent Water has improved the accuracy of its network asset data by introducing an innovative approach using mobile GIS (Geographical Information System) from Esri UK.
A new interactive mapping tool created by the US Geological Survey provides predicted concentrations for 108 pesticides in streams and rivers and identifies which are most likely to exceed water-quality guidelines for human health or aquatic life.
Innovate UK, the government's innovation agency, together with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are seeking to stimulate exploitation of the high-performance material graphene by investing £2.5 million in feasibility studies.
Yorkshire Water’s trial works to improve the quality of the river environment downstream of Swinsty reservoir is now well underway thanks to the help of a 'Spider' machine.
Landscape intelligence company Rezatec has been working with Northern Ireland Water to undertake an innovative study of its Dungonnell catchment, on the Garron Plateau, to the North of Belfast, using Earth Observation (EO) techniques.
Singapore’s national water agency Public Utilities Board (PUB) is building a demonstration-scale Integrated Validation Plant to test the technologies that could potentially be implemented at the future Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP).
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.