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Macquarie Asset Management (Macquarie) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Southern Water’s parent company, Greensands Holdings.
Southern Water provides essential services to 2.6 million water customers and 4.7 million wastewater customers across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. Under the agreement reached with Southern Water’s existing shareholders, Macquarie will…
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Anglian Water is investing £1.7 million (€1.9 million) in an essential project to future-proof the wastewater network in Hullbridge, UK.
Work on an essential sewer upgrade scheme in Hullbridge, in Essex, will begin on Monday 16 August.
The investment will see 2 km of new sewer pipes installed from the west of its pumping station on Ferry Road, under Kendall Park and towards the western…
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Thames Water in the UK has completely refurbished two slow sand filter beds at Hampton water treatment works – one of the biggest in Europe.
The water firm has fully rebuilt the porous floor and outer walls to help protect supplies for future generations, with the site the size of 100 football pitches producing a third of London’s water.
Hampton, built in the 1850s, has a maximum output of…
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Morrison Water Services has been awarded two long-term framework contracts by Northumbrian Water for capital works on water and wastewater network infrastructure projects.
The framework was tendered in three separate Lots and is intended to support the capital delivery programme in both the Northumbrian Water and Essex and Suffolk Water operating areas in the UK.
Morrison Water Services, a…
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Two ABEL pumps have been commissioned for work specialising in recycling and soil reclamation in France.
The HMD-G-80-1000 pumps were selected by the customer in Normandy. The pump serves as a filter press feed and operates at a maximum flow rate of 80 m3/h – 12 bar.
The devices are equipped with ABEL’s Smart Pump Assistant monitoring system.
Due to remote access, it delivers complete…
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A giant Victorian sewer in East London is being upgraded as Thames Water continues its investment in infrastructure across the capital.
The work is being carried out at the Northern Outfall Sewer and a temporary 7.5-ton weight restriction is being placed to keep the engineers safe as they work below ground.
The sewer comprises eight huge pipes, each around 1.6 metres high and 2.4 metres wide.…
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Atlas Copco has acquired CPC Pumps International Inc.
The Sweden-based company specialises in the design, manufacturing, and servicing of custom-engineered, mission-critical centrifugal pumps.
CPC Pumps has 110 employees and is based in Burlington in Ontario, Canada, with North America as their main market.
“CPC Pumps is a very good fit because both its technology and market presence…
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Northumbrian Water Group – which includes Essex & Suffolk Water – has joined the world’s largest alliance on climate change after being approved by the United Nations to become part of its Race To Zero campaign.
The news comes as the company launches its Emission Possible plan for achieving Net Zero carbon by 2027 – 23 years ahead of the campaign target and that of the UK…
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KSB is donating domestic water supply systems and grey water pumps worth €50,000 to flooded areas in Germany.
In an effort to help those people hit by recent flooding in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria the firm is providing 100 Multi Eco-Pro systems for domestic drinking water supplies.
In addition, the Frankenthal branch of the Germany’s Federal Agency for…
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Riventa have been monitoring a hydro-turbine for a major water supplier in England, to see if its maximum possible electrical output was being maintained.
At a key site, river water is pumped to a break tank at the top of a hill, from where it can either overflow or run down the hill to a large reservoir below - or be directed to a hydro-turbine with the same outfall.
Riventa was tasked with…
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The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) has continued to expand its numbers with another three companies signing up.
Devon-based Rauschert, an independent pioneer of innovative industrial solutions in the technical ceramics and plastics market for more than 120 years, has recently joined.
For the pump industry, Rauschert offers a large standard range as well as customised pump…
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Tsurumi Pumps are being used in a canoe slalom event at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
There are 15 submersible pumps being used to pump the water and create turbulence for the event.
A total of three of the pumps have 150kW motors and pump 4,000 litres per second!
As a comparison, the company’s two-inch submersible pump model LB480 pumps less than 0.5 litres per second. That is the equivalent…
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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water are about to begin maintenance work at Llandegfedd Reservoir, which plays an important role in supplying over 600,000 people.
It supplies Cardiff, Newport, parts of Monmouth and surrounding areas with a reliable supply of safe, clean drinking water every day.
The work, which began this month is anticipated to be completed by the end of October.
Rhys Hellin, Welsh Water…
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Southern Water has increased the size of its leakage team and is employing new tools and techniques to find and fix leaks as the south-east of the UK faces a future of more people and less water.
This is part of the organisation's commitment to halve leakage by 2050.
Southern Water has committed to triple the rate of leakage reduction and is making major investments in technology both to find…
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Next Filtration Technologies, who produce water treatment products Scale Stop and FOG STOP, have agreed a new partnership with the Argonide Corporation to provide a new microbiological removal system.
In conjunction with Next’s Scale Stop Template Assisted Crystallisation (TAC) water treatment units, Argonide’s long-recognised advanced filtration technology will provide a first-class…
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Yorkshire Water has improved its leak detection with an artificial intelligence trial that has learnt to differentiate sounds from acoustic loggers to reduce false alarms by 60%.
The project with Siemens and Artesia analysed data from nearly 40,000 loggers across Yorkshire’s clean water network to listen for evidence of leaks that should trigger a manual investigation.
These can be prone to…
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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is currently investing £8 million (€9.2 million) to upgrade the wastewater network between Hailey Park and Tongwynlais.
This investment work will help increase the sewer network capacity and help protect the local environment for years to come.
The work, which got underway last summer, involves replacing, cleaning and relining sections of the wastewater pipe between…
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Esh-Stantec is set to commence work on the Northumbrian Water Capital Construction Works Runway 3 Framework after securing a place on lots 1 and 2.
The framework will help maintain and improve the water and sewerage treatment and network assets, which serves 2.7 million people across Northumbrian Water’s operating areas.
The capital works for the infrastructure programme will deliver…
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