Anglian Water's @one Alliance has finished work at their recycling centre (WRC) in King's Lynn to safeguard the local environment and protect the community from flooding.
A project commissioned by the Environment Agency’s (EA) that captures genetic information from microbial biofilm communities in English rivers has developed a new DNA-based dataset which will be used to help identify new microbial indicators of ecosystem health.
The system for assessing the health of England’s rivers states just 14% are in good ecological health but an independent report for Defra says this masks improvements in freshwater biodiversity – and has proposed an alternative monitoring standard.
A Taunton potato farmer has been prosecuted by the Environment Agency for causing silt, soil and potatoes to escape from a field and seriously pollute a tributary of the River Tone in Somerset.
Southern Water has completed an £8.5 million investment at its South Harting Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) in West Sussex to improve water quality in the River Rother.
United Utilities is progressing work on two muti-million pound AMP8 projects to reduce storm overflows and improve river water quality.
The River Gade has returned to its natural course in Gadebridge Park, following an ambitious river restoration project delivered by the Environment Agency, in collaboration with Affinity Water, Dacorum Borough Council and contractors BAM Nuttall.
United Utilities has started work on two projects that will improve river water quality in St Helens.
An innovative solution by Yorkshire Water and partners that uses AI models to provide continuous river water quality monitoring at multiple inland bathing water sites has been awarded £1.93 million in Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge competition.
Severn Trent has officially opened the UK’s first ozone treatment to improve river quality – the cutting-edge ozone treatment facility in Ludlow marks a major milestone in its Bathing Waters programme.
“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.
bNovate has launched BactoCloud, a secure cloud-based platform that connects and manages its BactoSense instruments, enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of microbial water quality.