Severn Trent has recently completed its £76 million SuDS project in Mansfield, to make the town into a more flood resilient community. Since 2022, the water company has been retrofitting sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) across a number of locations in Mansfield.
The Rivers Trust will be co-leading a pioneering project aimed at mainstreaming nature-based solutions to deliver environmental and socioeconomic benefits.
A specially-designed planter which captures and stores rainwater before slowly releasing it in to sewers has been debuted at a Thames Water sewage treatment works.
Specially-designed rain gardens and pavements which absorb rainwater and slowly release it in to the sewer network have been unveiled by Thames Water in London.
This year’s keynote Landscape Institute conference will focus on landscape as infrastructure in the built environment and address how natural capital accounting will impact on the built environment professions.
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.