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Sustainability & social value
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Will SfA8 make as big a splash as hoped?
Martin Lambley, product manager for stormwater management at Wavin, looks at
whether Sewers for Adoption 8 will meet...
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How to become 'water-wise'
Luke Matcham, consultant at Capgemini, looks at how incentives and penalties can be
balanced to encourage water...
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Where there's muck, there’s brass
Tim Broadhurst, CCO of CooperOstlund, on utilising sewage and sludge as a renewable
energy feedstock and how to maximise...
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Going green at Severn Trent's Minworth STW
With a £60 million investment aimed at producing 30 per cent more green energy from
its largest sewage treatment works,...
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In Focus: Health, safety and wellbeing at Lanes Group
Having introduced an array of creative solutions to improve health, safety and
wellbeing, Lanes Group is showing the...
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Veolia putting efficiency into effect
As part of Anglian Water's Energy Efficiency and Optimisation framework, Veolia is using
its global experience to assist...
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In Focus: Social value and procurement
With social value becoming a key issue across the water sector, how do contractors
ensure they measure up?
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Finding value in liquid waste streams
Matt Hale, international sales and marketing director at HRS Heat Exchangers, looks at
how value can be extracted from...
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Innovation Zone: Boosting biogas production
Regulatory changes mean that now is a good time for technologies that can help boost
biogas production from sludge. Here...
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Turning the circular economy into reality
The Europe-wide INCOVER project, which was among the winners at the Water
Industry Awards 2018, shows how technology and...
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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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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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The hidden gems inside an AC drive
Dismissing variable speed drives (VSD) as nothing more than motor controllers is to miss the huge cost-saving potential...
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Air Quality and the MCPD: Something in the Air
Air quality regulations that come into force next year are making water and wastewater
companies reconsider the role of...
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WWT challenge report: leakage
In the first of our Challenge Reports looking at the 14 common performance
commitments
that water companies will be...
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News >
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British Water “encouraged” by utility survey results
British Water says it is encouraged by the results of its latest water company performance
survey, but that improvements can still be made.
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Water sector priorities highlighted in Environment Bill
The government will today (15 October) introduce a landmark Bill to Parliament to tackle
the biggest environmental priorities, with the protection of water resources and an
ambition to secure resilient water and wastewater services outlined.
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Regulators must be given powers to tackle climate change
The UK will fail to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 if regulators aren't
given new powers to ensure utility companies invest in sustainable infrastructure,
according to a report from the National Infrastructure Commission.
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Yorkshire Water to trial electric vehicles
Yorkshire Water is trialling electric vehicles at Knostrop Energy & Recycling Centre in Leeds
as part of its commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2030.
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EA sets 2030 net zero emissions aim
The Environment Agency has set itself the aim of becoming a net zero organisation by
2030.