Consumers will not be hit with higher bills if the UK government takes Thames Water into temporary public ownership to tackle its rising debt. In an interview with Sky News, health minister Neil O'Brien said there were contingency plans in place to make sure people would continue to have access to water and that their bills wouldn't change n the event that the government... [Read More]

Mapal has surpassed its fund target of £400,000 via Crowdcube, with 475 new investors choosing to inject over £467,000 (€546,000) into the business that has completed over 100 installations of its energy-saving, wastewater aeration solutions. Due to the high demand, the deadline to invest was extended by 14 days as more and more parties expressed their interest in... [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]

Technology company Ovarro has opened a new leakage service centre for European customers, based at the company’s manufacturing facility in Steenwijk, Netherlands. The Ovarro European Service Centre is a dedicated hub for repairs, services and testing of all leakage equipment in mainland Europe. A new team of repair and service engineers is based at the facility, which... [Read More]

Water sector supply chain companies are being invited to share their experiences of working with UK utilities over the past 12 months. This is against a backdrop of an expected increase in spend to improve environmental performance. Membership organisation British Water has launched its annual UK Water Company Performance Survey for 2023, which asks contractors,... [Read More]

Thames Water has been given the all-clear to transform London’s network of Victorian water pipes. Industry regulator Ofwat has backed Thames releasing an extra £700 million (€814 million) to tackle water leakage in the capital with 112km pipeline replacement programme. At Price Review 19, the regulator conditionally granted Thames £300 million (€348 million)... [Read More]

Severn Trent has outlined proposals to build a new 10 mile-long water pipe under a section of Nottingham in the UK in a bid to improve the area’s water supply. The new pipe expects to carry water between reservoirs in Redhill and Strelley, helping to make the city’s water supply more reliable. Ofwat said Severn Trent Water lost around 161 billion litres of water... [Read More]

A Qdos 60 PU peristaltic pumphead from Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions has completed three years of maintenance-free operation without any leaks in a trial at the City of Oak Ridge water treatment plant (WTP) in Tennessee. The trial began in May 2020 with the prototype Qdos 60 peristaltic pump with ReNu PU (polyurethane) pumphead dosing polyaluminium chloride,... [Read More]

Technology from WCS Environmental Engineering has been selected by United Utilities to deliver biological treatment at a new wastewater treatment works. The UK utility is investing £8.2 million (9.5 million) in the new facility in the village of Chipping in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, in the UK, a capital project designed to manage the area’s recent and future... [Read More]

Saudi Arabia's National Water Company is expected to award the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the second phase of the Riyadh Water Strategic Plan later this year. The tender for the EPC contract was released on 4 June and the initial bid submission deadline is set for 16 July. The awarding of the EPC contract is anticipated to take place... [Read More]

Fourteen rotary lobe pumps made by Borger have been installed for a membrane filtration application at a water treatment plant. Achieving a total output of up to 10,000 m³/h, the Borger pumps extract water so that it can be purified through the membranes. In addition to being extremely stable and practically wear-resistant, the pumps were chosen to suit the cleaning... [Read More]

Water and wastewater utilities are executing ambitious decarbonisation goals, according to a new survey of 100 utilities in North America and Europe. Sponsored by global water technology leader Xylem, the survey finds that 75% of respondents intend to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals by 2040 or earlier. 48% of respondents have set a net-zero emissions goal,... [Read More]

A free water hydrant-locating app for standpipe users has been launched by Aquam Water Services. The standpipe supplier developed the app to point permitted customers to the nearest hydrants approved for use by water companies, using information provided by individual utilities. Aquam supplies licensed standpipes for utilities across the UK, delivering legally compliant... [Read More]

Fluid Motion Solutions, part of the global National Oilwell Varco group, is backing a new patented product, NORAG, which has been designed to prevent sewage litter from combined sewage overflows (CSOs) that cause pollution. Developed by Samatrix, NORAG is a maintenance-free solution that has no moving parts and requires no electrical power. Using the Venturi effect,... [Read More]

Xylem has completed its acquisition of Evoqua Water Technologies, a leader in mission-critical water treatment solutions and services, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7.5 billion (€7 billion). The combination creates the world’s most advanced platform of capabilities to address customers’ and communities’ critical water challenges. Headquartered... [Read More]