Severn Trent Costain has opened its new, green headquarters complete with a 24/7/365 response control centre and a host of water and energy efficiency features.

January 2013 will see Stormsaver, the UK’s market leader in rainwater harvesting systems, celebrate 10 years of trading from their Nottinghamshire based offices.

Severn Trent Costain is successfully pioneering the use of solar panels to power remotely located water meters for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). 

Water and wastewater solutions specialist ACWA Services is to provide a hi-tech wastewater treatment system for the new Center Parcs at Woburn Forest.

ACWA Emirates has reported excellent results from a portable membrane bioreactor (MBR) sewage treatment plant that is purifying waste for a $9 billion gas megaproject at Habshan, a remote desert region of the Middle East.

Thames Water is investing in tertiary sand filtration technology from Hydro International as part of its improvement programmes at seven wastewater treatment works to meet improved discharge standards for ammonia levels.

Syrinix has revealed research which shows that its TrunkMinder system for permanent pipeline monitoring pays for itself within an 18 month to 3 year timeframe.

Electro Scan Inc. has announced that Ant Hire, Ltd., leading distributor of CCTV cameras, robotic cutters and services to market sewer leak detection technology to UK-based water companies and contractors, has become an International Authorized Dealer of its proprietary line of sewer leak detection and pipeline rehabilitation certification technology.  

Advanced optimisation of ACWA Services’ robust Nitreat® ion exchange process has enabled significant Capex and Opex savings for Anglian Water, the Society of Chemical Industry’s IEx (Ion Exchange) 2012 conference in Cambridge heard recently.

Chemineer have launched a new smooth profile, dynamically curved non-ragging impeller that minimises the possibility of rag build-up and significantly extends the lifetime of an agitator.

Until recently only the very largest commercial water users could switch water supplier. Now with the threshold for switching very substantially reduced the potential market has expanded from just 2,000 to almost 30,000 businesses.

GPS PE Pipe Systems has further enhanced its market-leading Protecta-Line barrier pipe range with the introduction of pupped fittings, enabling installers to use butt-fusion welding techniques.