Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for screens and screenings handling systems with an estimated value of £10 million (ex VAT).
South West Water reduced storm overflow spills by 97% last year at one of its highest spilling sites in Cornwall as it continues to drive improvements in spill numbers across the region.
Scottish Water is getting ready to start work next month on a major £3 million project to protect an iconic Edinburgh watercourse from rags, wet wipes and other sewer related debris.
Yorkshire Water has awarded an AMP8 framework contract covering the supply of new screens and associated handling equipment, as well as the maintenance of all YW screening assets, and the hire of temporary screens and handling equipment.
Engineering & Operations Director Dave Thompson draws on 30 years of experience at HUBER Technology UK, to look at challenges facing the UK water sector.
Engineering & Operations Director Dave Thompson draws on 30 years of experience at HUBER Technology UK, to look at challenges facing the UK water sector.
Severn Trent Water has issued a contract notice seeking supply chain input to help it set up a preferred supplier list for CSOs powered and non powered screens.
Scottish Water is progressing work on Combined Sewers Overflows (CSOs) and sewer network upgrades around the Water of Leith to improve urban waters in Edinburgh,
At a time when the media constantly shows footage of unsavoury sewage litter from Combined Sewage Overflows (CSOs) that pollute rivers and beaches, Fluid Motion Solutions, part of the global NOV group (National Oilwell Varco) are backing a new patented product, NORAG, which has been designed to prevent such occurrences.
United Utilities is investing £15 million to improve the water quality on a stretch of the River Roch.
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.”