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Water leads the way to a green recovery
In weathering the Covid-19 storm, the water industry has proved its resilience and is
emerging from the crisis in a...
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Meet the Water Industry Awards 2020 Winners
In this 40 page report, WWT showcases each of this year’s winners and finalists across 19
categories,
detailing the...
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Resilience must be viewed through a big-picture lens
Simon Jude, senior lecturer at the Centre for Environment and Agricultural Informatics
at Cranfield University, discusses...
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Journey to a carbon neutral fleet
Pete Stevens, manager of carbon neutrality at Yorkshire Water talks about the
company's switch to carbon neutral...
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What we learnt from WWT's net zero webathon
The water industry has made the ambitious pledge to reach net zero carbon emissions
by 2030, 20 years ahead of the...
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An organic approach to water treatment
Robert Denny, Sales Manager at Veolia Water Technologies UK (VWT UK) describes the
benefits of specifying alternative...
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Flood resilience: what you need to know
Geoff Williams, northern sales manager at Sykes Pumps, discusses the need for
businesses and local authorities to think...
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Come together to beat climate change
Northumbrian Water chief executive Heidi Mottram's motivational message to the water
sector on the opportunities and...
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Reaching net carbon zero
In summer 2019, the water industry committed to reach net carbon zero by 2030. This
is a very ambitious aim and...
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How the water sector is moving to be net zero
Water companies have ambitious plans to reach net zero carbon by 2030, ahead of
commitments made by other industries, but...
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WWT Explains Supply Interruptions
In our latest WWT Explains guide, produced in association with Water Direct, we look
at supply interruptions.
Water...
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WWT Explains...water reuse
In our latest WWT Explains guide, produced in association with Evides, we look at
water reuse.
Water reuse hasn’t yet...
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Integrated catchment management
James Knightbridge of Mott MacDonald examines what systems operation means in terms
of integrated catchment management and...
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Rewarding excellence
WWT content director Alec Peachey looks ahead to next year's Water Industry Awards.
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WWT Explains… groundwater discharges
In our latest WWT Explains guide, produced in association with Marsh, we look at
groundwater discharges. New rules that...
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Scottish Water installs PV at Fife reservoir
Scottish Water has fitted almost 1,000 solar PV panels at its Finmont Service Reservoir in
Fife, as part of its pledge to reach net-zero by 2040.
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Water companies urged to go further than regulatory commitments
Water companies have been told they must go further than the ambitious programmes set
out in PR19 and agreed through Water UK's public interest commitments in the fight again
climate change.
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Water industry seeks partners to embed circular economy approach across the sector
The UK water industry has set itself the ambition of embedding the principles of a circular
economy - maximising resource recovery and achieving zero waste from its operations by
2050.
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Drinking water network optimisation cuts cost of energy per mega-litre
Three water utilities have cut the volume and cost of energy use across their drinking
water networks by implementing optimisation technology.
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Affinity and Cambridge Water team up with farmers for cover crop scheme
Affinity Water and Cambridge Water have announced a partnership with 18 farms to use a
cover crop scheme to stop 37.4 tonnes of nitrate leaching into the chalk aquifers which are
used to supply drinking water.