Work on the third phase of a £16 million project to upgrade a strategic rising sewer main carrying waste water from Renfrew for treatment in Glasgow is getting underway.
The London Fire Brigade has been tackling a major flooding incident following a burst water main in Islington at 10pm last night.
Welsh Water has confirmed that water supply has finally been fully restored to customers 5 days after a water main burst at its Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works.
Yorkshire Water has completed a pressure management scheme in south Yorkshire to regulate water pressure in the clean water network to drive down leakage and reduce the likelihood and frequency of bursts.
Wessex Water has been found negligent after sewage leaks killed thousands of fish - with the company failing to report incidents to the Environment Agency as early as it should have.
Thames Water is inviting interested suppliers to attend an online launch event at the end of September for its upcoming AMP8 tender to put a Mains Rehab Framework agreement in place worth an estimated £440 million.
Scottish Water has reached a key milestone in its multi-million-pound project to upgrade an important rising sewer main serving customers in Renfrew and Glasgow.
Scottish Water has accelerated a significant investment package to upgrade just over a kilometre of existing pipe on the most burst-prone section of the rising main.
Scottish Water has seen the biggest spike in demand on its water network in more than a decade as its response teams battled against a surge in burst pipes caused by sub-zero temperatures and a rapid thaw over the holiday period.
NI Water is reporting an increase of 279% in burst water mains and has set up an incident team to manage the situation as the weather changes and the anticipated thaw arrives.
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.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.