Month: November 2017

Morrison Utility Services Named Best Newcomer at 2017 WOW Awards

Morrison Utility Services (MUS), the UK’s largest, dedicated, independent utility service provider, has been named Best Newcomer at the 2017 WOW Awards. The Best Newcomer Award recognises the organisation which has launched The WOW! Awards scheme in the past 12

New Chief Executive appointed at the Royal Academy of Engineering

Dr Hayaatun Sillem has been appointed Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, with effect from 1 January 2018. As the UK’s national academy for engineering, it brings together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering

Student Summer Placement Gives Undergraduates a Chance to Shine With Leading North East Companies

Some of the North East’s leading companies are offering an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students to work with them next summer. The 12-week paid summer placement programme will allow the students to work with Northumbrian Water, Esh MWH, Turner &

New plant technology to remove and recover nutrients from wastewater

New plant technology will be officially unveiled at Cranfield University today that will enable researchers to remove and recover nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater for use by the fertilizer and chemical industries. The technology, based on the use of ion

£7 Million NI Water Renewable Energy Scheme gets Underway in Antrim

NI Water has commenced work on developing a solar farm to supply electricity to its Dunore Water Treatment works in South Antrim. The £7million project will involve work on a 33 acre site on the eastern shore of Lough Neagh

Wildlife corridor in Swinley Forest heralded an environmental success

A wildlife corridor created by South East Water in Swinley Forest during the construction of a five kilometre major new strategic water main has been heralded a significant environmental success by Natural England. The scheme, which began in 2014

Every Drop Counts achieves 2.8K home visits

More than two thousand eight hundred water saving home visits have taken place in Witham and the surrounding area during Essex & Suffolk Water’s latest campaign. Across the summer months, customers were encouraged to fit devices that would reduce their

On The Way To Green Glory!

Z-Tech Control Systems has won a Green World Environmental Award in the international campaign to find the world’s greenest countries, companies and communities. They competed against more than 500 other nominations in the Green World Awards for Environmental Best Practice,

Diane d’Arras reelected as President of the International Water Association

The Hague, 31st October – The International Water Association today announced the reelection of Diane d’Arras as the President of the Association. The Association’s Governing Assembly, meeting recently in Prague, voted unanimously to reelect her to serve a second two-year