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New way to clean water in developing world
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and efficient device to treat contaminated drinking water for poor communities in the developing world.
Type: News
New produced water recycling facility constructed in Permian Basin
BREAKWATER Energy Partners, which supplies water supply chain solutions to oilfields, has announced that it has completed construction a new produced water recycling facility which is the largest in the Permian Basin.
Type: News
Partners successfully test UK’s first 3D-printed concrete water chamber
UNITED Utilities and its partner, 3D mortar printing company ChangeMaker3D (CM3D), have successfully demonstrated what they say is the UK’s first 3D-printed concrete chamber in the water sector, achieving significant carbon, cost, and labour savings.
Type: News
University of Leeds team wins Water SIG prize
A TEAM from the University of Leeds has won the inaugural Young Process Engineer Prize set up by IChemE’s Water Special Interest Group (SIG) to mark its 30th anniversary.
Type: News
DuPont to cleave off electronics and water businesses
CHEMICALS and science-based product company DuPont has announced plans to split from its electronics and water businesses to create three distinct, publicly traded companies.
Type: News
Welsh Water admits illegally spilling sewage at dozens of treatment plants for years
WELSH WATER has admitted to spilling untreated sewage at dozens of treatment plants for years. Data shows that one of their worst performing plants is in Cardigan in West Wales, where the company has been spilling untreated sewage for at least a decade into an environmentally protected area near a rare dolphin habitat.
Type: News
US researchers design water filtration system based on manta rays
RESEARCHERS in the US have developed a new water filtration design based on the feeding system in types of stingray.
Type: News
Extracting lithium from water using synthetic membranes
A metal-organic framework (MOF) has been developed that can extract lithium from water, which could be used to meet the increasing global demand for lithium batteries.
Type: News
UKWIR provides free access to hundreds of water sector research reports
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) has launched MyLibrary, an online facility that provides easy and free access to more than 1,000 water sector research reports aimed at helping to improve water and wastewater services for customers, and protecting the environment
Type: News
Burst water main ‘probable’ cause of Surrey sinkhole, geologists say
GEOLOGISTS have said a burst water main is the “probable” cause of a sinkhole that led to the collapse of a road in a village in Surrey, southeast England.
Type: News
SUEZ agrees to help improve water treatment at Rosneft sites
SUEZ has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Rosneft to improve water and wastewater processes at the Russian oil company’s operations.
Type: News
Water scarcity competition offers US$119m incentive to rethink desalination
XPRIZE has launched a five-year competition aimed at improving large-scale clean water access.
Type: News
United Utilities fined £800,000 for illegally removing water from the environment
UNITED UTILITIES, a water and wastewater services provider, has been fined £800,000 (US$1m) for illegally abstracting 22bn L of water from boreholes in Lancashire, UK, in 2018. The company has apologised for “inadvertently” breaching the three-year rolling limit on its abstraction license and taken steps to prevent similar issues in future.
Type: News
Webinar: Deliver your project on time and in budget – secure treated water
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using mobile water treatment services.
Type: Feature
Water UK unveils plan to reach 2030 net zero target
FOLLOWING its announcement earlier this year that it was setting a target to be net zero by 2030, UK Water has published the details of its plan to reach that goal.
Type: News
Fashion cycle: BASF launches its first factory to recycle waste nylon clothing
BASF has started operating its first commercial plant to recycle waste textiles back into feedstock for new garments.
Type: News
UKWIR calls for help in creating GHG accounting tool for water industry
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is calling for expressions of interest to deliver a new version of a greenhouse gas (GHG) estimation and reporting tool for use by the water industry, a sector which generates 5m t/y, or 1% of the nation’s annual emissions.
Type: News
Veolia agrees deal for Suez, merging world’s largest water firms
VEOLIA has agreed a deal to buy its rival Suez, ending a fraught takeover battle that merges the world’s two largest water and wastewater companies.
Type: News
