Water/Wastewater News

Rotork has been awarded a new framework agreement for the supply of its products and services to Anglian Water. The UK water company supplies water and water recycling services to more than six million customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. The Anglian region stretches from the Humber estuary, north of Grimsby, to the Thames estuary, and from Buckinghamshire to Lowestoft on the east…
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A UK filter and housings manufacturer has increased the capabilities of its welding fabrication shop as part of a major programme of investments designed to boost future growth. Amazon Filters has invested £500,000 (€572,000) in the enhanced welding capability at its European production centre in Camberley, Surrey. The spend includes automated welding equipment, heavy duty craneage and…
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Semtech, a leading supplier of semiconductors and advanced algorithms, has announced that Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider iioote will introduce new functionalities to its WebIoT platform and initially the SenseIoT solution for water leakage detection and prevention. The solution uses Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
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Great Plains Industries (GPI) has revealed that its FLOMEC® QS200 Insertion Ultrasonic Flowmeter helped save the University of Tennessee significant water and landscape maintenance costs. The QS200 is designed to support commercial irrigation applications and measures flow rates five times lower than current flow sensors on the market, as low as 0.22 gallons per minute. Additionally, it…
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SJW Group subsidiary San Jose Water has filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in the US state of California to deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) throughout its service area. AMI technology includes advanced meters that can take up to hourly readings every day, along with a data transmission system to provide water usage information to customers…
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Canadian water and wastewater services provider Aquatera Utilities has contracted Neptune Technology Group to replace water meters for 1,500 customers throughout the City of Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada. As water meters reach the end of their lifespan of around 20 years, Aquatera will replace them at no cost to the property owner. The water meters offer high-resolution low-flow leak…
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Internet of Things (IoT) developer Mobius Labs has been awarded a $750,000 grant (€672,666) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the commercialisation of its FirstDrops™ water leak detection product. The start-up, which is based in Albany in the US, expects commercial sales of the product to begin by the end of 2019. In July, the company received the Center for…
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