Scottish Water is starting work on £40 million upgrade to the water network between Peterhead and Ellon.
The Canal and River Trust (CTC) have announced an £89 million programme of engineering work, illustrating the scale of the resource required to protect and preserve the nation’s 250-year-old canal network.
Northumbrian Water is set to invest £4 million in enhancements to two sewage treatment works between Darlington and Stockton which will help protect local watercourses.
Tideway Chair Sir Neville Sims has described the delivery model for the Tideway Tunnel supersewer as an “exemplar for securing long term private capital to provide large scale UK infrastructure alongside our approach to achieving significant wider social value.”
The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland (DWQR) has said that Scottish Water’s customers continue to receive a supply of very high quality drinking water which they can use with confidence - but is warning over failures in asset maintenance.
Severn Trent has created 300 new jobs after bringing its customer waste teams inhouse – allowing the company to react even faster to pipe blockages and flooding.
United Utilities is holding two separate consultation events next week to set out its plans to invest £4 million in two new underground storm water storage tanks.
RSK, a global leader in the delivery of sustainable solutions, has announced the acquisition of Larsen Water Management, an Irish company with 30 years’ experience in water leakage detection that has made a significant contribution to Irish Water’s National Leakage Reduction Programme.
Future Water, the business support organisation for the UK water sector and the supply chain, is holding an online webinar next week to launch the Future Water Record Card.
Global sustainable development consultancy Arup has announced the appointment of David Hughes as Major Programmes Director, with a focus on supporting and accelerating the firm’s delivery of significant national infrastructure and strategic change programmes.
Barhale has completed work on two separate Rapid Action Taskforce Spills projects it is carrying out for Severn Trent.
Börger UK, which has firmly established itself as a leading pump brand since it was set up in Staffordshire in 2004, has moved into bigger, brand-new premises in Shrewsbury.
HUBER Technology UK & Ireland are inviting people to register for their March webinar where they will be providing information about HUBER water intake screens for municipal and industrial applications.
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.