An innovative tunnel is being drilled beneath the River Blackwater and Langford Cut in Essex in the UK to enable a new £20 million (€23 million) water pipeline to be constructed while protecting the watercourses and the wildlife that relies upon them. Essex & Suffolk Water’s new 19.5 km pipeline, which will run between Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford, will help make... [Read More]

Essex and Suffolk Water in the UK is set to build a new 12-mile water pipeline that will protect customers’ supplies across Essex and the environment. The pipeline will connect the company’s water treatment works at Langford and Layer-de-la-Haye and can move around 50 million litres of water a day. It will help ensure raw water can be more easily moved between the... [Read More]

Southern Water has completed its £7.5 million (€8.75 million) project to provide a new water pipeline to the Isle of Sheppey in the UK. The entire project took less than a year. The entire project – which means the Isle will now have four pipes bringing water from the mainland – was completed within 13 months. The project team led by Peter Simmons faced major... [Read More]

A major redesign of a wastewater treatment works near Whitstable in Kent, UK, is set to reduce storm overflows in the area by up to 30%. The work at Southern Water’s Swalecliffe site is enabling the existing works to store much more storm water in its pipes and tanks than ever before, meaning that wet weather will be less likely to overload the site – leading to... [Read More]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $50 million (€45 million) in grants through the Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant Programme. Approximately $4.5 million (€4.1 million) of that funding will be available for the Region 6 states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to help Region 6 communities... [Read More]

A new scheme to improve the capacity and efficiency of a West Sussex wastewater treatment works in the UK will boost local river water quality, reduce storm overflows and keep up with population growth. The £1.4 million (€1.6 million) project at Southern Water's Henfield site will allow the works to treat more wastewater and provide extra storm water storage so more... [Read More]

The UK government will not take over the planning process for two controversial sections of a new water pipeline from the Lake District to Lancashire and Greater Manchester. The £1.75 billion (€2 billion) Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Project (HARP) will replace deteriorating 70-plus-year-old water mains to keep water flowing through the 110-kilometre pipeline. Seven... [Read More]

Yorkshire Water in the UK has gone out to tender for two major framework deals worth around £2.8 billion (€3.2 billion). The two frameworks will look to deliver water and wastewater asset investment over the next 10 years, and deliver on the water company’s drive to make substantial reductions in sewage overflows into watercourses. Planned works will cover the AMP8... [Read More]

Grundfos has completed the acquisition of XPV Water Partners portfolio company Metasphere - a leading provider of telemetry and analytics solutions for water networks. Grundfos is now set to provide its global municipal customers even stronger offerings. The partnership will help make water networks worldwide more robust in the face of climate change, solving a pressing... [Read More]

Water technology company Orbis Intelligent Systems and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist VODA.ai have entered into a strategic partnership offering a combined skillset to support US utilities and municipalities with their leakage strategies. Orbis develops smart, data-driven technologies that provide real-time insights into pipeline infrastructure. Products include... [Read More]

Saudi Arabia has started laying out 1,350 km of water pipes across the capital city as part of the Green Riyadh programme. This comes as part of its efforts to carry 1.7 million cu m of treated water daily to irrigate the city. The aim is to achieve sustainable green spaces for the Green Riyadh projects and other development projects in the city. The diameter of the... [Read More]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $50.4 million (€46 million) in annual funding to states and territories for communities most in need of access to clean and safe drinking water. The funding will support projects and activities in underserved, small and disadvantaged communities to access and invest in water infrastructure and comply with the Safe... [Read More]

More than £8 million (€9.3 million) of work is set to begin at Ashlett Creek Fawley Wastewater Treatment Works (WTW) in the UK to help improve water quality, reduce storm overflows and plan for future growth. The scheme at the works in Fawley in the New Forest, includes building a new storm tank, increasing the existing storm storage capacity at the treatment works... [Read More]

The successful integration of technology companies Ovarro and ControlPoint is delivering a unique one-stop-shop for leakage reduction, detection and prevention. Leak detection specialist Ovarro acquired digital quality assurance supplier ControlPoint in March 2021. ControlPoint provides technical services to ensure correct installation of a range of pipe jointing methods,... [Read More]

Dame Margaret Hodge MP has welcomed Thames Water’s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions and to unlocking the benefits of energy conversion for the local area following a recent tour of Beckton sewage treatment works (STW) on 9 June. The visit to the Beckton site, which serves over four million people, demonstrated sewage sludge being converted into biomethane... [Read More]

Emergency action is to be taken to maintain water supplies on Skye in the UK as the dry weather continues. Scottish Water has been given special permission to install more pipes to safeguard supplies to the village of Broadford. The environment body Sepa has said all areas of Scotland are now experiencing some degree of scarcity, the BBC reported. A third of areas face... [Read More]