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.

NI Water, in partnership with Invest NI and key supply chain companies is holding a water sector innovation event  on Wednesday 27th September for customers and stakeholders.

An unique festival of innovation is underway this week, with hundreds of people and some of the world’s leading businesses arriving in the North East to address social and environmental problems at Northumbrian Water Group’s NWG Innovation Festival.

A recent offshore exercise, conducted by international industry-funded cooperative Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL), was designed to understand how remote sensing technologies can help detect oil spills at sea more effectively.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised a consortium comprising Spanish company Abengoa SA and investment fund InfraMaroc SA (CDG Group), on the structuring, drafting and negotiation of contractual documentation relating to a seawater desalination plant in Morocco.