Sewer Overflow News
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Change of management at Rubble Master
Gerald Hanisch is withdrawing from the operational business of the RM Group and focussing on his role as owner. Mr Hanisch is and will remain “Mr Rubble Master” and will continue to represent the RM Group and, as founder, be the face to the outside world. Günther Weissenberger will take his place as CEO with immediate effect. Rudolf Schöflinger will take on the role of CSO, ...
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England’s Raw Sewage Spills ‘More Than Double In 2023’
Despite the fact that the dire state of the nation’s rivers, lakes and streams hits headlines on a daily basis, despite the fact that there has been a very intense public outcry about the use of combined sewer overflows and despite the fact that crackdown after crackdown has been announced by the government, it seems that water suppliers around the country are still not getting the message, ...
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Hot Topic: Water Quality in the UK
While water quantity has long been hitting the headlines as one of the main issues of the water crisis, with extreme weather events like droughts and flooding taking centre stage over the last few years, water quality on the other hand has been flying under the radar somewhat… until now that is. Keeping rivers, lakes and streams healthy is an absolute must to sustain life on earth, but it ...
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How An Overspill Contaminated A Rare Chalk Stream
The most inescapable story of the last few years for many water consultants wanting to get the best water supply deal for their customers has been the increasingly controversial policies surrounding storm overflow discharge. These policies, now the subject of a lengthy Environment Agency investigation, have led to many water sources becoming polluted, and one of the most recent and controversial ...
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UK Water Crisis ‘Down to Conservative Government Failures’
You would perhaps be forgiven for thinking that the UK, with its famously damp weather, would be relatively immune to the issues presented by the global water crisis, but this in fact could not be further from the case. Water is becoming increasingly problematic for countries all over the world as climate change takes hold and the UK is certainly not exempt from this, with ageing infrastructure, ...
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EAU DE Paris Gets A Jumpstart on water sanitation
In charge of more than 2,000km of water networks, Eau de Paris is responsible for tap water production through the eponymous city. With drinking water produced partly from river water and spring water, the two different water networks produce different qualities of water: tap and non-drinkable; the latter being used for street washing and irrigation. In addition to these responsibilities, the ...
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Room Alert Account - Limited Time Lifetime Promo
Starting today, Tuesday, November 28th, we are offering our end-of-the-year Lifetime Room Alert Account promotion! This limited time upgrade opportunity is exclusively for Room Alert Account users on Professional Tier Room Alert Account who may be considering upgrading to Lifetime service. From now through December 31 2023, any organization currently on the Professional Tier can upgrade to ...
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SouthWestSensor Ltd launching new Ammonia Monitoring Probes
SouthWestSensor Ltd. ('SWS'), a UK provider of advanced water quality monitoring solutions aimed at improving efficiencies across the whole water cycle to promote sustainability and protect the environment, has launched a new turn-key solution for ammonia monitoring. 'Ammonia is typically monitored inside wastewater treatment plants for optimised process control but can also do damage once ...
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Government Announces Largest Ever Water Company Project
Amidst several years of controversy and with a criminal investigation by the Environmental Agency ongoing, the UK government announced what it dubbed the largest infrastructure programme in the privatised water era and one of the largest since Victorian England. The Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan was first announced in August 2022, but 13 months later has been updated and expanded, ...
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Water Metering Poised to Become Compulsory In England
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has just published the results of its Second National Infrastructure Assessment, a five-yearly review detailing a programme of transformation for England’s energy, transport and other key networks over the coming 30 years, finding that making infrastructure improvements is achievable and affordable if the appropriate policies are implemented now. ...
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Why Sewage Offers A Fire Service Solution To Drought
Why Sewage Offers A Fire Service Solution To Drought The importance of water efficiency is something that households and companies alike have only occasionally thought a lot about. Years like 1976 and 1984 stood out because they produced exceptional droughts, with huge shortages and standpipes in the streets. While water leakages have been reduced compared with those days, the pressure that can ...
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Hot Topic: River Pollution in the UK
Water quality in the UK is fast becoming one of the biggest issues that the country has to face, with pollution from a range of different sources increasingly taking its toll on the natural environment. Sewage, agricultural runoff and pollution from industry and urban centres are all putting pressure on rivers around the country, with more frequent extreme weather events such as intense rainfall ...
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Grundfos acquires Metasphere to pioneer solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges
Smart sewer solutions from UK-based telemetry and analytics business will empower the industry to meet the challenges of climate change Grundfos has completed the acquisition of XPV Water Partners portfolio company Metasphere, a leading provider of telemetry and analytics solutions for water networks. By adding the capabilities of Metasphere to its portfolio, Grundfos is set to provide its ...
By Grundfos
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£10 Billion Investment In New National Overflows Plan
Water firms around England have issued an apology for not taking swift enough action to address the issue of sewage spills in the natural water environment, announcing this month (May 18th) that the largest ever investment – £10 billion – will be made in storm overflows as part of a new National Overflows Plan. This £10 billion is more than triple current levels, with the ...
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The New Room Alert Mobile App - Environment Monitoring With A Mobile-First Mindset
Our team is thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new Room Alert mobile app! The new Room Alert mobile app features our modern Room Alert brand in a platform that offers customers with the same level of security, dependability and professionalism they’ve come to know and expect from us. The Room Alert app is free to download on Android and Apple app stores and available for users ...
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Yorkshire Water installs 21 water quality devices on river Wharfe
Yorkshire Water is installing 21 water quality monitors along stretches of the river Wharfe in a trial to better understand factors impacting the river and to ultimately help improve bathing water quality in Ilkley. Monitors from six different suppliers are being tested at the sites along the river for 12 months. The trial will ensure the water quality monitors can deliver accurate results in a ...
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Water Affected By Pet Parasite Treatments, Study Reveals
Water quality in the UK is a hot topic these days, hitting headlines on an increasingly regular basis thanks to issues such as storm overflow discharges, surface water runoff, pesticides, herbicides, algal blooms, drought, flooding… the list goes on and on, it seems. And now, according to a new report from Imperial College London, it appears that there’s another growing problem that ...
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Anglian Water Fined £560,000 for Raw Sewage Discharge
Utility company Anglian Water has been fined £560,170 after approximately six million litres of raw sewage (more than two Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth) was discharged into the River Great Ouse in Northamptonshire over the course of 23 hours. The incident led to the deaths of 5,000 fish, with the pollution spreading 12 kilometres down the river, the result of electrical faults ...
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‘Inadequate Infrastructure’ Leading to Increased Sewage Overspills
Sewage overspills have been hitting the headlines with increasing frequency over the last few years, with raw waste discharged into rivers, lakes and streams across the UK and Ireland on a daily basis. This is permissible during periods of heavy rainfall, when the capacity of the combined sewage system (which was built by the Victorians) can be exceeded. This means that sewage works can ...
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New Approach to Drainage to Reduce Flood Risks
The government has announced that sustainable drainage systems will be made mandatory in new developments across England in a bid to reduce flooding and pollution around the country. Part of the problem with new-build developments is that they can inadvertently increase surface and sewerage flood risk by covering permeable surfaces such as soil and grassland in paving and concrete, which means ...
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