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Ready for resilience: Overcoming challenges on the BRP
Working collaboratively with Severn Trent Water, independent infrastructure specialist
Barhale has overcome some...
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Protecting water supplies in contaminated land
James Roper, infrastructure segment manager for GPS PE Pipe Systems, discusses the
complexities around installing barrier...
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Striking it out: How can the industry cut down utility strikes?
Utility strikes are both costly and potentially fatal. With tens of thousands believed to
occur in the UK every year, how...
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PR19 Challenge Report - Supply Interruptions
In the third in our series of PR19 Challenge Reports, which look in detail at each of the
14 common performance...
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Comment: Plastic pipes could contribute to circular economy
The time is right to make use of recycled plastics for drains and sewers, and for the pipe
industry to help minimise...
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PR19 Challenge Report - Sewer Flooding
In the second of our PR19 Challenge Reports, which look in detail at each of the 14 common performance commitments which...
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WWT Explains… Pumps as Turbines
In this educational guide from WWT we look at Pumps as Turbines (PaT) applications,
in
which pumps can be run in reverse...
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Comment: Ease off the pressure to keep leaks in check
Keeping leaks in check is a major challenge for water companies but one that can be
met with variable speed drives to...
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WWT Explains... Wastewater pump control and optimisation
Welcome to our WWT Explains guide to wastewater pump control and optimisation,
which has been produced in association with...
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WWT's Supplier hub
Effectively optimise your relevant sales and marketing collateral to 18,115 water professionals each and every month.
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Woolmans Wood: Driving down disruption
Southern Water and Clancy Docwra discuss the challenges of keeping disruption to a
minimum on a 30km mains replacement...
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Water theft: Laying down the law
Whether it is unauthorised connections or the illegal use of standpipes, water
companies are increasingly clamping down on...
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Opinion: Action needed on product specifications and skills
BPF Pipes Group president Derek Muckle calls for a basic engineering and procurement
skillset to set the standard for what...
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Innovative survey technology helps CWA pipeline project
A £10M project that saw CWA add a duplication main in North Lanarkshire involved the
use of PureTech's PipeDiver...
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Drilling and Tapping: Pipe Dreams
The Institute of Water's UK Drilling and Tapping Competition returns for its 30th year at
Utility Week Live in May
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News >
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Government investing millions to develop robots to improve roadworks
The Government has announced that new micro robots will be built to repair the UK's
huge underground pipe network in an effort to significantly cut the disruption caused by
the 1.5 million road excavations that take place every year.
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Scottish Water set to start £7M water network project in Shetland
Scottish Water, with its alliance partner Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA), is set to start
work on a £7 million project to take care of the water network serving around 6,000
customers in Shetland's north, central and west Mainland.
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Atkins, Black and Veatch and RPS awarded Anglian contract
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, working collaboratively with Black & Veatch
and RPS, has been awarded a contract to deliver a strategic modelling study for Anglian
Water.
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Northumbrian and OS partner on underground digital map system
A pioneering underground digital map system that will help improve safety conditions
for workers and reduce the time that the public are inconvenienced by roadworks has
launched in the North East.
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Irish Water announces water supply improvements in N Dublin
Irish Water has announced a €21.7 million investment in water supply improvement
projects in Howth, Malahide and Balbriggan.