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Closing the gap for women in engineering

Closing the gap for women in engineering

From learning golf to keeping an eye on the weekend's football to fit in with her male colleagues, Karen McDowell, wastewater efficiency and innovation manager at Northern Ireland Water, offers a glimpse into her start to life as a female engineer in the utilities sector. Reflecting on the changes in the workplace since she was the only woman in the room, McDowell hopes the next generation of female engineers will go further and climb to the top of the organisational tree.

3 months ago

NI Water uses tanker fleet to replace freeze-thaw leakages

1 year ago

NI Water positions itself as catalyst for decarbonisation

2 years ago

NI Water starts nature-based upgrade to treatment works

2 years ago

NI Water calls for government backing for climate plan

NI Water has urged government to back its business plans that include opportunities for other stakeholders to utilise its infrastructure and resources to achieve shared climate change mitigation goals.

3 years ago

NI Water leakage targets missed for PC15

3 years ago

NI Water granted £2.1bn of capital investment

After six years of underinvestment, Northern Ireland Water has been granted £2.1 billion to spend on capital investment programmes to improve infrastructure as well as to meet climate and environmental goals. The increase in capital investment will enable the company to provide wastewater treatment services that have lagged behind the rate of housing growth.

3 years ago

NI Water begins essential wastewater expansion project

Northern Ireland Water has started work expanding the wastewater treatment works in Belfast to cater for the growing population, housing and industry needs.

3 years ago

No cranes without drains

3 years ago

NI Water begins construction on treatment plant

NI Water has hailed a wastewater treatment plant as an example of what the company can do when adequately funded

3 years ago

NI Water embarks on hydrogen production project

NI Water is to become the first in the UK to produce hydrogen through electrolysis at a wastewater treatment site.  

3 years ago

NI Water warns under-funding has left it in ‘critical’ state

4 years ago

NI Water: ‘Act now to protect water supplies’

4 years ago

Water companies urge public to limit usage

The trade body for the water industry has urged householders to be mindful of their usage at peak times as demand reached its highest ever point amid the continued lockdown and sunny weather. According to data from Water UK, people are currently using an average of 20 per cent more water, with some areas seeing up to a 40 per cent increase.

4 years ago

Keeping Us Connected: NI works to keep water flowing

4 years ago

Coronavirus forces reservoirs and water parks to close

4 years ago

Utilities 2020: The year ahead for energy and water

4 years ago

NI Water warns of environmental and health risks of underinvesting

Continued under-investment could result in environmental or public health risks, warns NI Water as it questions its ability to provide water and wastewater infrastructure for proposed new homes across the country without new funding being added.

4 years ago

New investment promised for NI Water

4 years ago

Invest now or NI Water infrastructure will fail

5 years ago

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