Water quality engineers Panton McLeod have won a sole supplier contract with Scottish Water which includes the inspection, cleaning and maintenance of over 2000 treated water storage assets across of whole of Scotland including the highland and Islands.

Dried sewage sludge could be an alternative cement material for concrete, researchers in Malaysia have found.

An FCC Aqualia-led consortium has been awarded the tender for the design, construction and operation of the Abu Rawash treatment plant in El Cairo, Egypt.

Landscape intelligence company Rezatec has been working with Northern Ireland Water to undertake an innovative study of its Dungonnell catchment, on the Garron Plateau, to the North of Belfast, using Earth Observation (EO) techniques.

Amiad Water Systems Ltd, a leading global producer of water treatment and filtration solutions, has announced that it has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in the UK that will operate from Swansea, Wales, with the office due to open later this month.

Northern Ireland Water is starting work on two new upgrade schemes - part of further wastewater infrastructure improvements, together with its ongoing water mains improvement scheme throughout Northern Ireland.

United Utilities has now fully the lifted boiled water advice across the whole of Lancashire and all customers can now use their water supply as normal.

Huber Technology have been awarded all three Lots of the Wessex Water Framework for screens and screenings handling.

Singapore’s national water agency Public Utilities Board (PUB) is building a demonstration-scale Integrated Validation Plant to test the technologies that could potentially be implemented at the future Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP).

Laing O Rourke has posted a significant increase in its group order book taking it to a record £9.2 billion (£7.4 billion: 2013/14), despite “a year of operational challenges in the UK construction market” which contributed to a £50 million loss in Europe, according to its full year results to 31st March 2015.