Bold Ambition on Leakage Investment Bodes Well

Bold Ambition on Leakage Investment Bodes Well

Those water companies getting on the front foot with leakage targets and technology investment now will be in a strong position going into AMP8, writes Paul Hartley, chief commercial officer, Ovarro. The year 2023/24 was challenging for UK water companies, which have been operating under increasingly intense customer, regulatory and media scrutiny. They should, however, […]

British Water: Urgent Investment Needed for Rivers Problem

British Water: Urgent Investment Needed for Rivers Problem

The water sector is at the forefront of the UK’s sustainability revolution, but this is not without its challenges. The need for greater investment, underpinned by robust data, was the subject of British Water’s second annual Creating a More Sustainable Water Sector Conference in Manchester on 21 March 2024. Opening the conference was keynote speaker, […]

Innovation Would Help Find More Chemicals in Water

Innovation Would Help Find More Chemicals in Water

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. John Collins, deputy director of evidence assessment and evaluation at the Environment Agency, said that despite having one of the most robust pollutants testing […]

Agriculture and Pharma Key to Solving Micropollutants

Agriculture and Pharma Key to Solving Micropollutants

In the face of growing public concern about the presence of micropollutants in water and wastewater, Dr Pablo Campo Moreno senior lecturer in applied chemistry at Cranfield University’s water science institute, identifies those taking the lead in tackling them. As the phrase, forever chemicals, enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, […]

ANDRITZ to Supply Equipment for Major Pumped Storage Project in Greece

ANDRITZ to Supply Equipment for Major Pumped Storage Project in Greece

The Greek company TERNA S.A., construction branch of GEKTERNA Group, awarded the international technology group ANDRITZ a contract for the supply of electromechanical equipment for the new Amfilochia Pumped Storage Complex in the Central Greece region. It is the largest grid energy storage investment in Greece and a milestone project for the country’s clean energy […]

New Steam Test Bench for Control and On-Off Valves

New Steam Test Bench for Control and On-Off Valves

Research and development are decisive factors for the quality of the control and on-off valves from Schubert & Salzer Control Systems. With the new steam test bench, the company has now created options for its own product tests that go well beyond the industry standard. Longer and more intensive tests of different valve types and […]

EBARA Technology to be Adopted as an Industrial Vocational Training Program in Africa

EBARA Technology to be Adopted as an Industrial Vocational Training Program in Africa

EBARA Corporation was accepted as part of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO), Tokyo’s “Industrial Vocational Training Program in Africa through Technology Transfer from Japan”. Since its founding, EBARA has contributed to solving social problems through its business. One of the company’s goals set out in its long-term […]