The organisers of WWEM 2018, the water, wastewater & environmental monitoring event, have published details of a comprehensive programme of conferences, seminars and workshops that will take place during the 2-day (21+22 Nov) event in Telford (UK).

Yorkshire Water is stepping up the fight against one of the UK’s most invasive non-native aquatic weeds by working with scientists from the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) to release an army of mites to suppress the weeds.

British Water has launched an innovation search engine that can help match utilities, industrial users and contractors with the water technologies they need. 

A ground-breaking next generation multi-megawatt turbine developed by the EU-funded ECOSWING project has the potential to transform the wind power market – the turbine looks set to change the way wind turbines operate and greatly expand the wind-energy sector.

Experts are testing cutting-edge techniques designed to enhance the monitoring of water worldwide as part of the €5 million MONOCLE project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

As part of its Shaping The Future of Energy initiative, the World Economic Forum has flagged up technology which uses turbines placed inside gravity-fed water pipeline networks to generate electricity for export.