A gel and mineral-based solution allowing leaking water pipes to ‘self-heal’ without the need for excavation is being tested by Northumbrian Water field teams across the north east after a successful trial in Newcastle.
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A digital twin demonstrator project using a ‘complex, fictitious city’ to simulate the effects of climate change will enter its second phase of development under the Connected Places Catapult in September.
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Though gas detection and monitoring have long been a key part of health and safety in the water sector, it’s a topic that the Covid pandemic has driven up the industry’s agenda according to Draeger Safety UK’s Adam Pope.
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Yorkshire Water is spending big to hit ambitious targets across areas such as customer service, leakage, pollution and flooding. Here, enterprise data architect Gary Ashby unpacks the building blocks beneath wholesale business transformation.
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The winners of the Water Industry Awards 2022 have been revealed as the sector celebrated the achievements of water companies and their partners over the past year at The Vox in Birmingham.
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Awarded more than £700,000 from the Water Breakthrough Challenge Catalyst Stream, Treatment-to-Tap seeks an industry watershed by supplementing a tech rollout with collaborative data analysis and behavioural science to build trust in tap water.
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Having scooped Digitalisation Project of the Year at the 2022 Water Industry Awards for its real-time bathing water monitoring with UnifAI Technology, Wessex Water’s director of environmental strategy, Ruth Barden, sheds light on ongoing innovation at Warleigh Weir.
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Business as usual in the water sector will not be enough to deliver AMP8 according to Turner & Townsend’s Jason Jones, who outlines the need for a ‘fundamental’ shake-up of delivery models in order to foster innovation.
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Aerial photographs from the company building London’s super sewer, Tideway, have revealed new pockets of land to be created in the Thames as part of the subterranean project.
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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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Fresh from Everflow being named Retailer of the Year at the Water Industry Awards 2022, its environmental and regulatory affairs manager Clare Galland reflects on language lessons at a French nuclear plant, overcoming social anxiety, and the importance of in-person working.
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Experts explore the importance of data in both identifying and supporting vulnerable customers during the ongoing cost of living crisis as well as the prevalence of ‘digital vulnerability’.
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Skewb Climate managing director Ruta Blazeviciute explains how collaboration between the digital education firm and utilities are levelling up climate and social outreach among the next generation via bespoke video games.
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Skewb Climate managing director Ruta Blazeviciute explains how collaboration between the digital education firm and utilities are levelling up climate and social outreach among the next generation via bespoke video games.
Analysis
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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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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What can the utilities sector learn from the wastewater treatment solutions in place to protect lakes and rivers from contaminants during the construction of HS2?
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Pan-utility experts outlined how they’ve adapted to cost and customer outcome pressures alongside changing approaches to staff engagement, productivity and happiness triggered by Covid-19.
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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 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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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.
News
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’.
News
Fresh from Everflow being named Retailer of the Year at the Water Industry Awards 2022, its environmental and regulatory affairs manager Clare Galland reflects on language lessons at a French nuclear plant, overcoming social anxiety, and the importance of in-person working.
Interviews
Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology firms are being accelerated through the UK water sector and its centre of excellence, Spring.
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With the London Flood Review releasing recommendations to ensure the capital’s resilience in extreme weather, its chair delves into the crucial role collaboration will play in preventing a repeat of the July 2021 floods.
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Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology firms are being accelerated through the UK water sector and its centre of excellence, Spring.
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Fresh from Galliford Try winning contractor of the year at the Water Industry Awards 2022, the firm’s head of process solutions, Dr Mariana Gonzalez, discusses the need to be more accepting of risk in innovation and the role of AI in hitting the water industry’s net zero targets.
Interviews
Aerial photographs from the company building London’s super sewer, Tideway, have revealed new pockets of land to be created in the Thames as part of the subterranean project.
News
While palpable public concern over the health of rivers, streams and water courses has thrust the water industry’s approach to pollution management into an unprecedented spotlight, sector leaders stressed that focus must stretch far beyond the highly publicised role of sewer overflows.
Analysis
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.
Interviews
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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