Opinion: Five impactful ways data centres can reduce their water consumption
In an Expert focus article for WaterBriefing, Lee Brock, water and utilities sector director at Pell Frischmann, takes a look at how five impactful ways data centres can reduce their water consumption.
Scottish Water Horizons - can Scotland support more data centres?
In a blog posted by Scottish Water, Colin Lindsay, Developer Services Manager at Scottish Water Horizons says that locating data centres in the right place is key to ensuring they are sustainable in terms of water resilience and wider infrastructure capacity.
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Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
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. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
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. -
IED compliance – using automated sliding floodgates to support secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites
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. -
Making storm overflow data make Sense – Metasphere launches dedicated monitoring device
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”
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Scottish Water completes £235m investment in two-way connection between drinking water networks
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United Utilities accelerates investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across Northwest
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