Sensor technology used in conjunction with satellites is being used to enhance monitoring of a North East reservoir dam, following a successful pilot project.
Severn Trent Water are looking to find suppliers which have the technical capabilities to help improve its ability to monitor structural health of its wastewater assets to identify and address potential problems within its wastewater network.
David Black, Senior Director, Water 2020 at Ofwat, has outlined the regulator's concerns about how shortcomings in the water companies’ approach to asset management and maintenance are impacting on resilience, a key theme of PR19.
Ofwat is calling for the water companies to adopt a systems thinking mindset at all levels of their businesses as part of their resilience business planning for the upcoming 2020-25 AMP7 investment programme.
George Heywood,Technical Director at Servelec Technologies, takes a look at the implications of Ofwat’s PR19 methodology for resilience, asset health and leakage.
Ofwat wants the water companies to include a set of performance commitments relating specifically to resilience for the next 10 to 15 years, as well as a new asset health performance commitment, in their AMP7 Business Plans.
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.