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Friday, 04 May 2012 08:49

Murphy Group joins British Water

Engineering group J. Murphy & Sons Limited has become a member of British Water in a bid to further increase its profile in the water & wastewater sector.

 

Severn Trent Water is working with Derby City Trading Standards to turn counterfeit alcohol into electricity.

 

Engineering firm Costain has won a significant contract to build a new duplicate raw water main for Northumbrian Water from an existing intake point at Ovingham on the River Tyne, west of Newcastle, to Horsley treatment works.

 

Global provider of professional technical and management support services AECOM, and a key supplier to the UK water sector, announced today that it has formed a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent, not-for-profit organization that works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drive sustainable water use by business and cities, on its global cities program.

A report in yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper has suggested that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may have advised two sovereign wealth funds  - the China Investment Corporation (CIC) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) on investing in Thames Water.

Waterlogic Plc, global distributor of point-of-use drinking water purification and dispensing systems. has announced its first set of full year results since its results its successful Admission to the Alternative Investment Market in July 2011.

Thames Water is planning to publish a new report setting out the  environmental case for the Thames Tunnel.

Anglian Water is starting work next month to protect the shorelines at Rutland reservoir as part of a £10 million, two year project, to secure more than 18km of shoreline at three drinking water reservoirs across the region.

 

Aqua Resources Fund Limited, the Authorised Closed-ended investment scheme managed by FourWinds Capital Management and established to invest in global water opportunities, has today issued its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2011.

ABB, the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering group which is prominent in the UK water industry, said its sales and profits rose in the first quarter of 2012, but operating margins slipped to 13.9 per cent from 15.7 per cent in the last quarter.

 

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