Trials of an advanced tertiary water and wastewater treatment system have proven its effectiveness in removing several trace substances from wastewater final effluent.

An independent study says that 30% of companies in a mix of industries have had a significant effluent treatment problem in the past year which has put their compliance at risk, with effluent treatment plant failure or breakdown the most common cause (31%).

In a blog post which first appeared on the World Bank website, Robert C. Brears, the author of Urban Water Security (Wiley) looks at how cities reduce water-energy nexus pressures.

Specialist water treatment firm Purazur, a subsidiary of Belgium headquartered DEME Group, is building a new water treatment installation for Indaver, the Antwerp-based waste treatment company.

US-headquartered global water technology firm Xylem has developed the world’s first wastewater pumping system with integrated intelligence.

The charity Business in the Community (BITC) is calling on food and drink businesses to take action across their supply chains to improve water quality and reduce water usage with the launch of a new report – Smartwater - a prosperous future for the food and drink supply chain.

Veolia Water Technologies has been selected by the HDGSK Joint Venture to supply a Zero Liquid Discharge Evaporator and Crystallizer for the Karbala Refinery Project in Iraq.

A European Union (EU)-funded demonstration project has found a way to make both energy and cost savings by developing revolutionary hydraulic actuators.