Water sector stakeholders explore how the industry is already harnessing nature-based solutions – such as reed beds and integrated constructed wetland – to treat wastewater amid stretching new AMP7 targets and environmental scrutiny.
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The fourth industrial revolution, with widespread rollout of the so-called Internet of Things, has been well publicised and long anticipated. There can be little doubt that, with UK utilities and their supply chain partners under increasing pressure to deliver more for less, smart devices that generate actionable insight are a must-have.
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Yorkshire Water will join forces with Hydraulic Analysis and Morrisons Water Services to roll out leakage and digital twin technology across major towns and cities as part of a £28 million effort to halve leakage by 2050.
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Water and energy companies must look to other sectors, such as financial services, to help improve advice and signpost support for customers struggling to pay their bills, according to a debt advice expert.
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Craig Hopkinson, sustainability manager at Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance – and Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee – talks through the role of nature-based solutions in addressing a wide range of crises.
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Ahead of the 2022 Water Industry Awards, Rising Star category finalist and Wessex Water site manager, Sophie Ward, discusses her path to spearheading the UK’s first shade ball project and becoming a site manager just months before the Covid pandemic hit.
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Finalists in the 19 categories comprising the 2022 Water Industry Awards have been announced.
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National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief executive James Heath argues it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid all climate risks, saying: “The idea that we’re going to build our way out of climate change doesn’t seem realistic."
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The machine uprising isn’t confined to hi-tech labs or the silver screen, it’s taking place in our pipes, water courses, wind turbines and street works. As such, Utility Week Innovate profiles five robotic innovations ahead of Utility Week Live.
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Amid clamour for smarter cities and a green industrial revolution, Utility Week Innovate showcases five modern utility projects ensuring the foundations of tomorrow’s smart cities can match the durability and ambition of those laid by Victorians more than a century ago.
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Utility Week Live 2022 returned to deliver its biggest content programme ever, with more than 2,200 people attending to watch a host of fascinating sessions and engage with innovative exhibitors.
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United Utilities has seen one in two customers sign up to the open banking scheme it launched last year, its new chief executive has told Utility Week. She described how taking the initiative in-house had overcome underwhelming take-up initially.
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Ahead of discussions around working towards a ‘just’ transition and best-in-class customer service at Utility Week Live, Utility Week Innovate explores some of the digital projects helping firms respond to the ‘dynamic’ nature of vulnerability.
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National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief executive James Heath argues it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid all climate risks, saying: “The idea that we’re going to build our way out of climate change doesn’t seem realistic."
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Utility Week Live 2022 returned to deliver its biggest content programme ever, with more than 2,200 people attending to watch a host of fascinating sessions and engage with innovative exhibitors.
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On the back of Utility Week Live 2022, Utility Week editor James Wallin sat down with Aimie Chapple, Capita Experience CEO, to gauge her thoughts on the challenges discussed over the two days and solutions presented.
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National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief executive James Heath argues it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid all climate risks, saying: “The idea that we’re going to build our way out of climate change doesn’t seem realistic."
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Utility Week Live 2022 returned to deliver its biggest content programme ever, with more than 2,200 people attending to watch a host of fascinating sessions and engage with innovative exhibitors.
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While the utility sector’s creative minds are pulling up trees to fuel the energy transition, decarbonise and innovate around water supply, firms’ green strategies incorporate far broader schemes than simply replanting them.
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Utility Week Innovate’s first round-up of 2022 features Veolia’s first UK electric vehicle battery recycling facility, pan-utility efforts to improve priority services register support, and plans to trial solutions to smart meter ‘blackspots’.
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The latest round-up of utility industry innovation includes a customer experience digital twin from Northumbrian Water, plans for a ‘hydrogen town’ in the Humber region and an update on London’s ‘super sewer’.
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As part of Utility Week Innovate and Utility Week Live’s ‘Unlocking Collaborative Innovation’ series, hydrogen experts discuss the importance of a joined up approach across utilities, academia and local authorities to create commercially viable hydrogen.
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Ahead of the WWT Wastewater 2022 Conference, Innovate’s round-up includes updates on bathing water disinfection projects from Anglian and Yorkshire Water. Elsewhere Drax, WPD and Sembcorp provided project news.
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Utility Week Innovate’s first round-up of 2022 features Veolia’s first UK electric vehicle battery recycling facility, pan-utility efforts to improve priority services register support, and plans to trial solutions to smart meter ‘blackspots’.
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The challenge of scaling up the smart meter roll-out is shared across gas, water and electricity companies. As the panel debate and workshop at the Utility Week Live Summit discussed, smart meters prepare consumers for the changes to come on the net zero journey. But is there are also a case for using the energy sector's new dual band communications network for smart water meters too? Read on to hear more about delegates' views.
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Martin Richardson, water framework manager at ABB, explains how variable speed drives (VSDs) represent a cost-effective way to make fast progress on the water industry’s Net Zero targets.
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Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee, Stantec civil engineer Sam Mullaney, discusses his work under the Living with Water Partnership and the prospect of developing more low carbon solutions.
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In the build up to the 2022 Water Industry Awards, Ciaran McGuckin, a senior engineer at WSP, reflects on his journey from entering the water sector with no qualifications to being shortlisted as one of its rising stars.
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In the build up to the 2022 Water Industry Awards, Andrew McLeod, a bioresources process engineer at Jacobs and Rising Star Award finalist, reflects on five years in utilities after ‘pivoting’ from academia.
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United Utilities has unveiled half-a-dozen new tech partners, ranging from autonomous vehicles that collect and analyse water samples to an valve management app, following a global search for firms to join its accelerator program.
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Almost a year since being named Most Innovative New Technology at the 2021 Water Industry Awards, leaders from Wessex Water and StormHarvester discuss creating a 35,000km smart sewer.
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United Utilities has unveiled half-a-dozen new tech partners, ranging from autonomous vehicles that collect and analyse water samples to an valve management app, following a global search for firms to join its accelerator program.
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Ahead of the 2022 Energy Innovation Awards, Utility Week Innovate catches up with young innovator of the year nominee and inventor of the Aquabot – a robot created to measure water pollution in real time – Dale Colley.
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Thames Water’s head of innovation, Jon Regan, sheds light on the advances in technology and collaboration during his quarter century in the utilities sector, and a 400-year-old source of inspiration.
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