The Environment Agency (EA) is getting ready to go out to tender with a contract to strengthen the resilience of its incident support role across England.
County Durham and Darlington fire and rescue service in partnership with Northumbrian Water have hosted a national exercise which tested capabilities to restore water to 50,000 homes due to a simulated treatment works failure.
Thames Water has set out details of its improvement plan following Ofwat’s review in the aftermath of the Beast from the East - the water company said it will transform its response to unexpected major incidents in future.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
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.