Feb 13, 2020
Innovyze partners with Electro Scan to offer water leak detection capabilities
Water/Wastewater News
Feb 11, 2020
Pumps
Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications group Elecnor has been awarded a contract to carry out one of the largest water transmission and supply projects to date in Oman.
The contract, which is worth €192 million, was awarded by the Public Authority for Water (Diam) in an international call for tender. Elecnor won the bid in a joint venture agreement... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Feb 11, 2020
Other
Global insurance company Hiscox has partnered with smart water leak alarm provider LeakBot to provide leak detection systems to customers.
The partnership, which should help protect homes from water damage in the event of a leak, will make Hiscox the first insurer in the UK to offer a free LeakBot to all new and existing buildings insurance customers.
With the average... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Feb 7, 2020
Pumps
Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has completed a £1.6 million (€1.9 million) upgrade of the Ballinagard Water Pumping Station, as part of the utility’s Water Pumping Station Improvement Programme.
Pumps and control panels at the station were upgraded to provide greater robustness and efficiency to enable water to be pumped to the local Croppy Hill Reservoir, near... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Feb 5, 2020
Other
Amazon Filters has strengthened its SupaSpun and SupaGard meltblown filter range with the additional option of KilBac technology.
Produced using a unique manufacturing process, the new SupaSpun KilBac® and SupaGard Kilbac® filters harness the latest innovation in high-performance antimicrobial and anti-algal additives.
KilBac’s meltblown fibre construction is... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Feb 3, 2020
Pipelines
American Water subsidiary West Virginia American Water has completed its acquisition of the Town of Glasgow water system, located in Kanawha County in the US state of West Virginia.
The deal follows part emergency help form the company in the form of leak detection and system repairs for the distressed utility, which has historically experienced water loss of around... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 31, 2020
Flowmeters
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.... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 23, 2020
Pumps
A new digital tool developed by BHR Group is being used by water utilities to analyse their sludge pumping systems and reduce costs.
The software, known as SLOT 2.0, is able to calculate sludge flow properties and behaviours, as well as frictional pipe pressure losses and system curves. It can also identify the most effective pumps to use on any system, selecting the... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 22, 2020
Pipelines
Satellite data analytics proveder Rezatec has partnered with MeterSYS, a smart cities solutions provider in the water market, to provide utilities with advanced, high-tech solutions across the US.
The solutions will include Rezatec’s pipeline risk assessment tool, which combines satellite data with machine learning techniques to produce likelihood and consequence... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 21, 2020
Pipelines
A review of UK Water Industry Research’s (UKWIR) National Failure Database (NFD) for pipe assets is being carried out by Servelec Technologies.
The work will examine the business case for continuing development and support of the NFD, which benchmarks failure rates for water distribution mains and sewers in the UK and Ireland.
Data relating to characteristics such... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 20, 2020
Pumps
KSB Group has dispatched a boiler feed pump with reportedly the largest drive rating in the world, to be used in a coal-fired power plant currently under construction in Huaibei, China.
The supercritical power station Pingshan II is using a new technology that is expected to reach an efficiency of almost 50% at a unit output of 1,350MW.
The developers designed the... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 20, 2020
Pipelines
UK utility Anglian Water has commenced a trial using fibre optic cables to detect leaks in the provider’s water pipe network.
In partnership with Kier, a leading provider of construction and infrastructure services, and CRALEY Group, the new trial builds on Anglian Water’s innovation in next generation leakage engineering.
CRALEY Group’s iSMTM technology is... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 17, 2020
Level Monitors
Endress+Hauser has released two new point level instruments – Liquiphant FTL51B and FTL41 – which are vibrating fork, or vibronic, level instruments.
The FTL51B features Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things capabilities, including access via wireless Bluetooth technology, automatic proof tests and verification and easy commissioning via a mobile device.
The... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 16, 2020
Pipelines
UK utility Yorkshire Water, in collaboration with Inflowmatix, has launched a new project as part of its increasing investment into smart networks, which the company hopes will play a key part in reducing water leakage across its network.
The two-year project will see 650 InflowSense devices fitted across Yorkshire County, which will analyse pressure transients at 128... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 14, 2020
Flowmeters
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... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 13, 2020
Other
By sharing data with wastewater treatment equipment providers, UK water companies can support the design, build and operation of their own plants, as well as reduce costs and drive innovation.
According to WPL’s technical director Andrew Baird, through closer collaboration utilities can get even more from their suppliers.
For example, by having sight of specific... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Jan 9, 2020
Pumps
Cheshire, UK-nased Chemical Support Systems (CCS), which designs, manufactures, installs and commissions chemical dosing systems, has selected Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology’s (WMFTG) Qdos pumps for polymer dosing in wastewater treatment applications.
According to the company, this usage is expected to increase, as more effort is made to reduce the presence of phosphorus... [Read More]
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