The Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for the provision of eDNA Kits and analysis for District Level Licensing Monitoring worth an estimated £342,000.

The eDNA kit and analysis packages will be used for monitoring ponds created and restored under Natural England’s District Level Licensing Schemes.
Abingdon-based company Orchid Cellmark Ltd has won the contract, one of six companies in the bidding for the work.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.