07 Jul 2022
Have your say on the future of drainage, wastewater and environmental water quality in your area, from Water UK. For the first time, consultations have been launched seeking views on long-term management plans for drainage and flood risk across England and Wales. Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs) are new statutory 25-year plans that look […]
07 Jul 2022
The Consumer Council for Water (CCW) has warned of a betrayal of customers’ trust after South West Water joined a list of six sewerage companies facing the threat of enforcement action over their management of wastewater treatment plants. The voice for water consumers has responded to the announcement by Ofwat that it is opening an enforcement case against […]
07 Jul 2022
Sewage treatment can play a key role in Europe’s shift to a zero-pollution future by becoming more resource efficient and contributing to the circular economy, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Most of Europe’s urban waste water treatment plants have focused on cleaning water and returning it to the environment in just a simple, linear […]
07 Jul 2022
Yorkshire Water and tech firm Technolog have pledged to reduce the in-home and environmental risk and impact of sewer flooding across Yorkshire following a successful pilot project, Utility Week reports. The utility company – which supplies more than five million customers, the millions of people who visit Yorkshire each year, and some 140,000 businesses – […]
07 Jul 2022
News release from Turner & Townsend: With water companies expected to be set ambitious targets for the next five-year regulatory period by Ofwat and other regulators, we have partnered with British Water’s Water Industry Forum (WIF) on a paper exploring the optimal delivery model for Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8). WIF has launched ‘The Optimal […]
05 Jul 2022
Using stretches of fibre optic cables as sensors could enable continuous, real-time monitoring of conditions at the bottom of oceans and seas, and below the planet’s surface, researchers say. Despite sensing technologies advancing significantly in recent years, oceans and seas remain largely unmonitored as installing permanent ocean-floor sensors is very expensive. The new technique could […]
05 Jul 2022
Welsh MP Liz Saville-Roberts of the Plaid Cymru Party has called on the UK government to allow the Welsh Government to have a role in identifying quotas in their own waters, Fishing Daily has reported. The Member of Parliament for Dwyfor Meirionnydd said that while the greater part of fishery matters is devolved to the […]
05 Jul 2022
The UK Government has joined other world leaders at the UN Ocean Conference to announce new initiatives to protect the global marine environment. Defra released a news item which stated that: ‘The government’s ambitious £500 million Blue Planet Fund, launched at the G7 Leader’s Summit last year, is already supporting developing countries and vulnerable coastal […]
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