Scottish Water has completed work on a £1.4m solar scheme at a site near Edinburgh which is set to save 221 tonnes of carbon a year.
Technology platform Kraken and Portsmouth Water have announced the launch of The Water Lab to improve customer experience across the utilities sector.
The ‘Net Zero Hub’, led by Severn Trent Water and based at Strongford, Stoke-on-Trent, will deploy cutting-edge technology, including Siemens gPROMS digital twin, to reduce and remove CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions, which account for 57% of all emissions from the wastewater treatment process.
Mapal has surpassed its fund target of £400,000 via Crowdcube, with 475 new investors choosing to inject over £467,000 into the business that has completed over 100 installations of its energy-saving, wastewater aeration solutions.
Yorkshire Water will hold a supplier day in Leeds on 30 March to allow businesses in the wastewater sector to showcase how they can help the utility tackle a number of challenges it faces in sludge management and treatment.
Industry body Water UK, which represents all the UK water companies, is running its national summer Water’s Worth Saving campaign for the first time throughout the winter months.
Scottish Water has unveiled plans for a new £21 million state-of-the-art Waste Water Treatment Works upgrade in Winchburgh.
Severn Trent Plc is today hosting a Capital Markets Day, focusing on the company’s approach to sustainability and the benefits it can deliver both for the environment and for wider stakeholders.
United Utilities is looking to suppliers to provide market input on the development of Demand Side Flexibility Services as part of its energy strategy.
High-tech engineering company Lontra, the developer of a revolutionary new design for an air compressor - is to build a new manufacturing facility in Warwickshire for its innovative industrial compressors.
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.
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.
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.”
ERG, the leading supplier of odour control systems and industrial gas cleaning & thermal systems, has been awarded the coveted King’s Award for Enterprise.