The Environment Agency has completed the second stage of af a major £42.9 million Norfolk flood defence project better protect over 2,100 homes in Great Yarmouth from flooding.
Business Stream, one of the UK's biggest water retailers, has cut its carbon emissions by 50% over the past year.
Affinity Water is planning to construct more solar arrays up to a further 28 sites during Phase 2 of its Solar energy efficiency programme.
A University of Glasgow-led team of scientists have demonstrated that using air-source heat pumps to support anaerobic digestion could cut the carbon emitted during the production of biogas by more than a third.
A recent project undertaken by Hydro International's UK Wastewater Services, M&N, saw Opex costs cut and a significant reduction in carbon footprint at Scottish Water's Carbarns Wastewater Treatment Works.
Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project to accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040.
Unilever is set to invest €1 billion in a new dedicated Climate & Nature Fund which will include work to step up direct efforts to preserve water and implement water stewardship programmes.
NI Water dramatically reduced their carbon footprint by using 24,000 solar panels to complete a £7 million solar farm yesterday, turning what was a green field into a green power station.
A chance find during research could fundamentally re-shape efforts to cut the huge amount of electricity consumed during wastewater clean-up - the find has big implications for water treatment costs and carbon footprint.
Yorkshire Water is aiming to halve carbon emissions at any new assets it builds by 2020 – one of six new carbon reduction targets which form part of the water company’s commitment to the Infrastructure Carbon Review.
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.