Yorkshire Water invests in smart sensors and mobile network tech to provide remote water quality monitoring
A Yorkshire Water project in the Yorkshire Dales will use smart sensors and mobile network technology to provide remote water quality monitoring.
£4m trial to provide broadband and mobile services across UK via water pipes will also help “radically reduce” leakage
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has launched a £4 million competition aimed at accelerating the rollout of broadband and mobile services via drinking water mains, together with helping to reduce leakage from the public water supply.
Yorkshire Water rolls out mobile connectivity solution for business continuity across entire workforce
After deploying NetMotion’s mobile connectivity solution to its 2,600 field-based employees in 2017, UK-based Yorkshire Water’s experience improved so radically that the utility extended the full NetMotion suite to its entire workforce.
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Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
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. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
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. -
IED compliance – using automated sliding floodgates to support secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites
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. -
Making storm overflow data make Sense – Metasphere launches dedicated monitoring device
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.”
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