Northern Ireland Water has gone out to tender with a contract for satellite imagery leakage detection services with an estimated value of £7.04 million (inc VAT).

A new research study has found a direct correlation between visitor numbers and algal spikes in Windermere, with algal growth also exacerbated during prolonged warm, dry weather periods.

NASA Harvest says the catastrophic collapse of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam which supplies water to large areas of the Black Sea region’s most productive agricultural lands has resulted in the disconnection of three of the four major canal inlets vital for farm irrigation.

SUEZ has announced the launch of MasterPlan, the latest product from technology partner Utilis Corp, a deployable pipe deficiency data layer, improving operational efficiencies for water utilities.

South Staffs Water is using state-of-the-art satellite leak detection technology to detect leaks in South Staffordshire and Cambridge in its aim to cut leakage by at least 15%.

NI Water has gone out to tender with a contract for satellite imagery leakage detection worth an estimated £3 million.

The Office for National Statistics’s (ONS’s) Data Science Campus has developed a new tool, which can help countries around the world to keep track of changes to the surface area of large bodies of water.

The UK Space Agency has extended the funding for HR Wallingford, enabling the water research specialists to broaden its space-based dam monitoring system, DAMSAT, to include water dams in a bid to reduce the risk of failures.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for services acquiring Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery to administer common agricultural policy schemes worth an estimated £2 million to Munich based firm European Space Imaging GmBH.