Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences On 15 August the Environment Agency launched a consultation on changes to variable monetary penalties – financial penalties that can be imposed for certain environmental offences.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

The UN Biodiversity Conference ( COP15 ), scheduled to take place later this year, will be a notable moment for companies to articulate their efforts in developing comprehensive plans of action and take steps to better steward the environment. . In our case, water is an indisputable aspect of our business.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

We’re the first company in the water industry to achieve the certification for battery powered EDM level monitors. “As The government instructed water companies to have EDM monitors in place at all CSOs by the end of 2023. Water companies must submit an annual report highlighting the number and duration of every spill event”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

An important advance is claimed for a technology that allows water quality to be assessed in a matter of minutes. It gives an accurate running water quality assessment in the field, seemingly for the first time, with results available in 15 minutes.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

The source of pollutants in rivers and freshwater lakes can now be identified using a comprehensive new water quality analysis, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge and Trent University, Canada. Water quality is strongly determined by the diversity of organic matter dissolved in it – termed ‘chemodiversity.’

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

billion litres of water a day by 2050. Daily water consumption per head of population needs to be slashed from 143 to 110 litres by 2050 to meet future supply challenges caused by population growth and climate change, according to new government plans launched yesterday.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

(Words by ballast water treatment firm Optimarin) The ‘polluter pays’ principle is starting to hit shipowners where it hurts – in the pocket – when it comes to ballast water pollution of our oceans. We see very little movement when it comes to port state control of ballast water treatment systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At the British Water Micropollutants Conference 2024, which took place in London on 8 February, keynote speakers from the UK’s Environment Agency called for a cross-industry approach to tackling the issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Good Law Project is supporting the Marine Conservation Society , Richard Haward’s Oysters and surfer and activist Hugo Tagholm as they argue that the Government’s strategy is inadequate, allowing water companies to pollute waters and beaches for another 27 years. Our livelihood balances completely on water quality. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Spring, a group which supports innovation in the UK and Ireland water sector, has launched its third innovation accelerator challenge and is calling for innovators from all backgrounds to apply. Safeguarding water bodies is a crucial part of the sector’s efforts to protect the natural environment.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

JULY 22, 2023

Chemists have demonstrated that water remediation can be powered in part -- and perhaps even exclusively -- by renewable energy sources.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Looking to find ways to keep improving water quality, the managers of the Royal Parks have installed a continuous water quality monitor; an ESNET (Environmental Sensor NETwork) system from Meteor Communications, as the company writes. Today, water is pumped from two boreholes from within Hyde Park.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

Antibiotic residues in wastewater and wastewater treatment plants in the regions around China and India risk contributing to antibiotic resistance , and the drinking water may pose a threat to human health , according to a “comprehensive analysis” from Karolinska Institute t published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A new, industry-verified white paper validates the oxygen transfer efficiency of an innovative, gas infusion technology for water and wastewater treatment. Validation testing shows DGI delivers greater than 99% transfer of oxygen when applied to a treated body of water. The reservoir testing site.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

David Black, chief executive of Ofwat, giving a keynote address at the British Water event. The keynote speaker was David Black, chief executive of industry regulator Ofwat, who outlined what lies ahead in the 2024 Price Review (PR24) and his expectations for the water sector. However, she said, there was still much to done.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

A delicate operation to remove nine ageing car wrecks which had been dumped in a Paisley reservoir has been hailed a success by utility Scottish Water. While the reservoir has never been used for the supply of drinking water, local residents had raised their concerns when the cars were uncovered during the dry weather last year.

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FuelCellsWorks

MARCH 28, 2024

New guidance published on production of hydrogen from water using electrolysis The Environment Agency has today (28 March) published guidance on emerging techniques for the production of hydrogen from water using electrolysis.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

New analysis of Environment Agency data appears to reveal a worrying level of chemical pollution in rivers and other freshwater sites across England. Hazardous chemicals are flowing into our waters, derived from every aspect of our lives. A range of five known toxic chemical cocktails was looked for in Environment Agency data.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Scottish Water has turned to ultra high-pressure robotics in an apparent UK-first to remove decades of industrial deposits blocking a strategic sewer in South Lanarkshire. But then Scottish Water Project Manager Marc McKinnie started speaking to people in the publicly owned utility’s supply chain, including delivery partner George Leslie Ltd.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Stephen Kennedy is head of digital and innovation at MWH Treatment, a firm offering end-to-end treatment projects for water and wastewater. What does ‘sustainable water sector’ actually mean? One of the biggest challenges is defining what ‘sustainable’ actually means for the water sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. These schemes are also proven to improve air and water quality, provide habitats for wildlife and create green spaces for communities. billion flood programme.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

In a tie-in with World Water Day in late March, employees from Amazon Web Services (AWS), The Rivers Trust and Action for the River Kennet (ARK) have put on their waders and planted 11,000 native plants at two newly created wetlands in Fyfield and Wilton, Wiltshire. They also offer a green space for both locals and wildlife to enjoy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Proposals to create 26 new treatment wetlands across the East of England are part of a new wetlands programme from Anglian Water, which the utility says will help protect rivers and some of the much-loved chalk stream habitats in the East of England. The initiative has been welcomed by conservation group The Rivers Trust.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2023

Thirteen research reports have just been published, which aim to boost the water sector’s knowledge of microplastics and further the understanding of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) in wastewater treatment processes. CIP is the UK water industry’s response to current and emerging legislation on trace substances in the water environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Robbie Moore MP, UK government minister for water, has addressed the demand gap in resources during his keynote address at British Water’s International Reception, which took place in London on 19 February 2024. He called for greater collaboration and innovation in finding solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 5, 2023

Only Thames Water has released suitable data so far. Near-real time alerts of raw sewage discharges have been added to the interactive Sewage Map provided by charity The Rivers Trust, and the group is now calling for all water companies to make this kind of data publicly available.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What makes their technology unique, so they say, is the selection of strains based on their chemical tolerance which the researchers ‘resurrect’ from past environments. The water flea’s remarkable ability to remain dormant for centuries allows scientists to revive dormant populations that endured varying historical pollution pressures.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

With multiple drivers for growth in the industrial market, the challenges for water in Africa are more around implementation than technology, says Walid Khoury of water engineering firm Desalytics, as he prepares for Water Africa 2024 in Ghana in June. What are the main challenges for the water market in Africa?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

A new survey from British Water points to an ongoing lack of innovation uptake by water companies and their delivery partners. Innovation was again the lowest scoring area in 2021 – at a time when regulator Ofwat is encouraging water companies to find new ways of working to address key issues, without increasing customer bills.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Ofwat, the economic regulator of water services in England and Wales, has announced a new “open access” competition for innovators, in an apparent widening of the scope of its existing £200m Innovation Fund, and a bid to encourage more diverse ideas to transform water services.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Engineers at the University of Illinois, Chicago have been awarded just over $1 million from the US Department of Energy’s National Alliance for Water Innovation to build a system that selectively removes and destroys poly- and perfluorinated substances, commonly called PFAS , from industrial and municipal wastewater.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Retention ponds and wetlands constructed as part of major road schemes can reduce the quantities of tyre particles entering the aquatic environment by an average of 75%, new research appears to show. Easy come, easy go? Ultimately, we need to seek more systemic solutions perhaps via improved vehicle tyre design.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While achieving the United Nations (UN) ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global water quality, severe water quality issues would continue to persist in some world regions. The authors extended their focus beyond just past and current water quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem Water Solutions UK & Ireland. As the demands of AMP8 and the ambitious targets of The Environment Act come into focus, water companies need to embrace technology companies much more readily, says Andrew Welsh. That comes on top of the £5.2

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

A new data visualisation tool “to help researchers better understand the effects medicines have on Scotland’s environment” has been launched by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) on behalf of the One Health Breakthrough Partnership (OHBP)*. Medicines in the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Infiltration of storm and ground water can increase during periods of heavy rain and storm events. The inflow and infiltration (I&I) of stormwater and groundwater into sewerage networks can add considerable cost to water utilities in pumping, treating, and discharging excess water.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Beatrice Martin is business development manager, head of water resources, Xylem UK. The issue of PFAS contamination of drinking water sources has been under the media spotlight in recent weeks, scrutiny that is likely to increase in 2024, writes Beatrice Martin UK water companies have an exceptional track record on water quality compliance.

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