Anglian Water has awarded an AMP8 contract for grit, screening and iron sludge waste management services worth an estimated £14.4 million.
United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP7/8 waste services framework contract for grit, screenings and refuse waste worth an estimated £17.6 million.
Scottish Water has partnered with Zero Waste Scotland to turn grit that is found in the waste water system into valuable raw building material for the construction industry.
Landia chopper pumps have played a key role in Severn Trent’s recent upgrade of twelve anaerobic digesters at its Minworth Sewage Treatment Works.
Elaine Coles, Managing Editor of Waterbriefing, discusses the results of the first of Waterbriefing’s keynote surveys on how Totex is operating in AMP6 in more detail – the survey has revealed a significant gap between perception and reality amongst a wide range of stakeholders in the UK water sector.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”