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Perma-Pipe International Holdings has announced its Egypt subsidiary has been awarded $6 million (€4.53 million) in contracts by the China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCEC).
This is for the provision of thermally insulated pipe, field joints and a leak detection system for a district cooling network. This is for the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA) in the central business…
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More than 30 Rotork actuators have been installed on jet valves in order to provide critical air regulation control at a treatment plant.
The Milano San Rocco Wastewater Treatment Plant represents one of the biggest examples of wastewater reuse for irrigation in the world where practically all the treated water can be reused for farm irrigation.
It processes the wastewater of a population of…
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Morecambe wastewater treatment works has won an award.
The site has undergone some major improvements, which will reduce how often storm water spills from the sewers into the sea and in turn improve the bathing water quality in Morecambe Bay.
Work carried out by United Utilities started three years ago on the £70 million (€77 million) project, which is expected to be completed next…
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Anglian Water has published a summary report following the first phase of consultation on proposals to relocate the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant.
The public consultation took place between July and September and sought views and feedback from the local community and stakeholders on the three potential relocation sites.
Over 5,000 people visited the digital engagement platform and…
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Reading’s water treatment works is set for a £10 million (€11.2 million) upgrade to help keep taps flowing as the town’s population grows and climate change brings more extreme weather.
Thames Water’s Fobney site in the UK will benefit from upgraded filters and pumps, as well as advanced new technology to make it more efficient and resilient to stormy conditions. Work will begin in the…
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Thames Water has brought in optimisation experts Riventa to test the performance of 90 aeration system blowers across 10 of its sewage treatment works (STW).
This is part of the water company’s commitment to continually improve its energy performance.
From Beckton, the largest STW in Europe, where 26 blowers will undergo extensive monitoring, to the Blackbirds STW, near Watford, with just two…
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A team of 180 specialist engineers have pulled off the biggest plumbing job in the north-west UK despite severe storms and the effects of the COVID pandemic.
United Utilities connected four new 1.6 metre diameter pipes into the Haweswater Aqueduct, near Kendal, in under eight days.
Connecting the new section meant shutting down the aqueduct for the shortest period possible and marked its first…
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County Durham in the UK is set to benefit from a £10.6 million (€11.8 million) investment by Northumbrian Water at three of its treatment works sites, which will improve water quality in the area.
The company is investing £8 million (€8.9 million) in a project that will see the treatment works at Pittington replaced with a pumping station that will transfer the wastewater, via a new pipe,…
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New technology from leak detection specialists Ovarro will support efforts to establish a reliable water supply in a Nepalese town.
The company has donated leak detection equipment to the Beacon Project, a collaboration between Anglian Water, its supply chain partners, WaterAid and the Nepal Water Supply Corporation, which focuses on enhancing water supplies in Lahan, in south-eastern Nepal.…
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A new water treatment plant in the south of the UK is now operational – serving 250,000 people in the area.
South West Water’s Mayflower Water Treatment Works at Roborough, just north of Plymouth, uses cutting-edge treatment processes to be more sustainable than a traditional water treatment works.
The plant takes over from the old treatment works at Crownhill in the coastal city, which has…
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Water and waste company Severn Trent is to continue its £4million (€4.4 million) investment in South Leicestershire, UK.
The company is currently replacing ageing water pipes across Swinford, with the next phase of work set to finish in early March next year.
A company spokesman said: “This is a really important project for the area, as this work is vital in making sure customers will have…
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Advanced data-led technology from leakage specialist Ovarro is feeding into the largest smart water network pilot in the UK.
Ten Ovarro Enigma3hyQ remote leak loggers have been deployed by Yorkshire Water as part of a multi-stakeholder collaboration to reduce leakage and burst levels in the pilot area of Hadfield, Sheffield.
Yorkshire Water’s Hadfield Smart Water Network Pilot will integrate…
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Engineers from Thames Water have fitted a section of pipe more than three feet wide as repairs continue on a Victorian water main in Hackney, UK.
The 5.5 metre-long piece of ductile iron pipe was installed after the original 42-inch cast iron main, which is more than 100 years old, burst on October 6.
It caused water outages to areas of East London, with teams from the company working through…
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International technology group ANDRITZ has been selected by Hydro-Québec as its main partner to re-equip its 14 turbine generator units at the Carillon generating station.
Hydro-Québec has awarded the supply and installation of the first set of six 54-MW turbine-generator units at the facility on the Ottawa River, Canada, to ANDRITZ.
The first phase encompasses complete re-equipping of six…
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Sloy Power Station, on the banks of Loch Lomond, was the first hydro scheme to be developed under the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and it has just celebrated 70 years of power generation.
Sloy is the largest conventional hydro-electric power station in the UK. It has an installed capacity of 152.5 MW generating enough electricity to power over 80,000 homes.
It can operate at full load…
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Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, has been awarded a role on a new cloud computing initiative to deliver operational efficiencies at Northumbrian Water.
With its industry Microsoft Azure expertise, Atos is working alongside the UK water company to migrate the first wave of three data processing and storage applications to the cloud over a three-year span.
This is the first of…
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A documentary about how new technologies and innovations are helping to reshape the way water is managed is set to reach a global audience of millions.
Brave Blue World, narrated by Liam Neeson and featuring actors and activists Matt Damon and Jaden Smith, will be available to watch on Netflix from 21 October.
It is set reach to reach an audience of 193 million subscribers worldwide and is…
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MWH Treatment (MWHT) has successfully secured a place on Thames Water's non-infrastructure framework for the asset management period 2020-25 (AMP7).
MWHT, a sector solution provider operating across the UK water industry, will be continuing to work closely with Thames Water to ensure delivery of resilient waste water services to its 15 million customers across London and the Thames Valley.
The…
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