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The Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) has issued a call for papers for its upcoming Sensing in Water Conference in September - the main theme is how using sensors and instrumentation can help to deliver water company outcomes in AMP6 and over the next 25 years.

UK Trade & Investment is running a webinar tomorrow afternoon at 2pm designed to help UK companies who want to find out more about export opportunities in the French water sector.

An energy efficiency and effluent quality improvement project being carried out by the Spanish subsidiary of Veolia Water Technologies at the La Cartuja Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Zaragoza will save 600,000 euros a year in energy costs on a total investment cost amounting to nearly 5 million euros.

Researchers from the University of Bath have been awarded a £1m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to research and develop the next generation of long lasting ‘immortal membranes’ that will be able to separate water from problematic particles such as pharmaceuticals or pollutants.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced details of its forthcoming keynote conference for the water sector Water:Process Control & Automation.

The Sensors for Water Interest Group is holding a workshop next month with a specific focus on the growing use and potential application of Big Data in the UK water sector.

Swansea Bay Supply Chain Strategy 150126 1British industrial components and expertise will be at the heart of tidal lagoon turbine production following the appointment of General Electric and Andritz Hydro as preferred bidders to the £1 billion Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon infrastructure project.

The NEC has become one of the first local businesses to send its food waste to Severn Trent Green Power’s £13 million food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at its Coleshill sewage treatment works.

In the most advanced scheme of its type in the UK, Thames Water is using an innovative water storage technique from the Middle East and America to help  the water-stressed south-east England.

Yorkshire Water has undertaken the UK’s first trials of an innovative technology for lining sewer pipes.

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