WRc, working with a large group of the UK’s water utilities, will be conducting the most significant and comprehensive trial of wastewater DO monitors undertaken by the UK water industry for over a decade.

The Water Research Centre (WRc) is proposing the introduction of a National Innovation Accelerator for Water (NIAW) in a bid to hasten innovation in the normally risk-averse water sector.

Small UK businesses will be able to obtain Government funding to help them develop and grow with the launch this month of a new and easily accessible Innovation Voucher scheme.

The Government has announced that the UK’s second marine energy park will be launched in Scotland with an official opening by UK Energy Minister Greg Barker at the Caithness port of Scrabster.

The UK is falling further behind in the race to capitalise on growing global demand for innovative water technologies, while countries like Israel, Singapore and Australia are increasingly well positioned to succeed in a market estimated by the Technology Strategy Board to reach  $770 billion by 2016.

The Technology Strategy Board has just announced details of ten small to medium sized companies in the UK which are set to deliver innovative feasibility projects designed to help businesses safeguard future water supply, both in this country and abroad.