Community-led infrastructure upgrades and closer working between companies that deliver amenities through underground networks could help to improve services and reduce roadworks, according to industry experts who took part in Northumbrian Water Group’s week-long NWG Innovation Festival.
A pioneering collaborative research project between Wessex Water and the University of Bath is investigating using algae as a natural and sustainable way to treat wastewater.
NI Water is planning to use an unmanned waterborne vehicle to carry out underwater inspections of reservoirs.
Suppliers interested in pitching their innovative technology, product or service to key stakeholders in the water and wastewater sector are being invited to attend an informative and interactive event hosted by NI Water in partnership with Invest Northern Ireland in September.
A new international network of water security provision experts, led by the University of Bath’s Water Innovation and Research Centre. is aiming to address the limited amount of safe drinking water available in Mexico.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada have built inexpensive and tiny devices using a 3D printer to inspect water quality in the distribution system which could revolutionize the water industry.
The Dark Data Team at PA Consulting Group – made up of energy & utilities and business intelligence & analytics experts – were the winners of Northumbrian Water Group’s (NWG) Leakage Data Hackathon competition held on 12 and 13 July 2017.
A multi-disciplinary research project at the University of Bath is aiming to develop an efficient, portable and low cost continuous treatment system for contaminated drinking water for poor rural communities in developing countries is using 3D printing to generate rapid prototypes and test them.
EU-funded researchers are driving the development of an integrated system to apply a common strategy to a range of data about the state of the Atlantic which is collected by a variety of organizations via a number of means including buoys, floats, moorings and research vessels.
Professor Richard Luxton, Director at Institute of Bio-sensing Technologyat the University of the West of England, takes a look at some of the latest developments in sensor and biosensor technology for water analysis ahead of SWIG’s major Sensing in Water conference in September.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.