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UN calls for greater collaborative effort to achieve global water security

The United Nations (UN) has called for stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources, warning that unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends the world will run out of freshwater.
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Opinion

AMP6 price setting: what's changing?

With the price setting process for AMP6 of the water industry's regulatory cycle underway, Ofwat's director of regulatory finance, Keith Mason, is in no doubt that this is "an interesting time" for the industry. WWT's editor, Natasha Wiseman asked for an update.

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Latest feature

Exploring water usage: Sainsburys journey to a 50% water reduction

Exploring water consumption throughout Sainsburys estate has been a difficult but rewarding challenge. Announcing last month that it had achieved a total water reduction of 50%, Leigh Stringer discovers the financial gains from cutting water use at one of the largest retailer's in the UK.

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Water Awards

Water Industry Achievement Awards winners announced!

Winners in 14 categories were announced at the glittering Water Industry Achievement Awards

EEA data reveals 'encouraging' improvement of EU bathing waters

Europe's bathing water quality has improved with 94% of bathing sites in the EU now meeting minimum standards. ... read more

Energy

Business to save £1bn from simplifying environmental regs says Defra

Simplifying environmental rules and regulations could save businesses more than £1bn over 10 years, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said today. ... read more

Peter Bakker: CEOs must lead from the top to drive agenda for change

Waste

CEOs in powerful position to unlock sustainable transformation

CEOs should take advantage of their ability to create "powerful mechanisms" that can drive meaningful change across the corporate sustainability landscape, a leading CSR authority has said. ... read more

EA analysis suggests that 10% of England's beaches could be at risk of failing 2015 standards

EA calls for action to improve bathing water quality as testing begins

The Environment Agency (EA) has begun testing England's bathing waters to improve water quality and protect England's £3.6bn seaside tourist economy. ... read more

Water firms must 'share' supplies to improve resilience says EA chief

Water companies must secure water supplies against a changing climate and a growing population, says chairman of the Environment Agency (EA) Lord Chris Smith. ... read more

Ofwat chief exec Regina Finn resigns

Ofwat has announced its chief exec Regina Finn has tendered her resignation and will exit her role at the regulator in November this year. ... read more

Abbey Metals fined more than £130,000 for river pollution after fire

Abbey Metals Limited has been ordered to pay a £133,000 fine and £33,000 in costs for polluting the River Anker, following a fire at one of its operating sites in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. ... read more

Waste

Brands signal firm intent to 'sex up' sustainability

Brand leaders have signed up to a new initiative which aims to mainstream sustainability by making it sexy and aspirational to consumers. ... read more

Spittal, Northumberland - one of the beaches at risk of failing bathing water regulations

British travellers at risk of 'the shits' under UKIP plans to scrap water bathing directive

Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies has rubbished the UKIP Deputy Leader's claims that the EU Bathing Water Directive should be scrapped, arguing that millions of holidaymakers would face an increased risk of falling ill. ... read more

Features

Exploring water usage: Sainsburys journey to a 50% water reduction

Ofwat director of regulatory finance Keith Mason

AMP6 price setting: what's changing?

Distilling water efficiency into Diageo's operations

World Water Day not only highlights the global water challenge but for Guinness and Smirnoff producer Diageo, it raises awareness throughout the company's supply chain and operations, says Michael Alexander ... read more

Achieving sustainability through financial rigour

Committing to a sustainability programme requires ambition, a clear understanding of how targets will be achieved and, above all, backing from management, employees and partners. But how integral is it to apply financial disciplines to a business's sustainability plan? Leigh Stringer finds out ... read more

Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham

How easy is it to reduce water consumption?

Reducing water usage at a major retail establishment may seem like a complex challenge but in the case of Wrexham's Eagles Meadow shopping centre, cutting consumption was "not exactly rocket science". ... read more

Coire Glas pumped storage one step nearer

Scotland's largest ever hydro project has been given the go-ahead by the Highlands council. Natasha Wiseman reports on the proposed £800m scheme. ... read more

A taste for sustainability

Facing the prospect of a global shortfall in cocoa production of one million tonnes by 2020, Mars Chocolate has implemented a worldwide sustainability initiative, working with the five million smallholders who grow the majority of the world's cocoa - "putting farmers first" to increase yie... read more

Products & Services

Air pollution control

We have recently successfully installed and commissioned an odour control plant at a Waste transfer Station. The station which takes in general domestic waste is housed in a single building with building volume of approximately 15,000 m3. The odour control plant was designed to provide approximately... read more

Pollution Control

Under EU legislation designed to reduce the amount of biodegradable waste disposed as landfill, on-farm burial of fallen livestock has been prohibited. As part of a programme to meet this legislation and at the same time provide early-warning testing for BSE, Maloney Matthews in conjunction wit... read more

Positive Displacement Pumps

Rotary Lobe Pumps are self-priming, valveless, positive displacement pumps. Two synchronized rotors rotating against each other build chambers towards the pump casing. At the suction side the open chambers fill with the conveyed product. The product is displaced in the direction of the volume f... read more

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Take a lesson from brave, stoical Snow

A reception held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to celebrate the life and work of the legendary physician and epidemiologist, John Snow, whose 200th anniversary fell on 15 March, had the buzz of a celebrity book launch. And yet on this occasion, this much-deserved figure of idol... read more

Water poverty or just poverty

The line "April is the cruellest month," from TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land is gaining an alternative association in terms of the Government's slash and burn on welfare. Otherwise known as the Welfare Reform Act, it is hitting the poorest households with punitive reductions in their already meagre ... read more

The Monarchy versus Mother Nature

Since the rise of the British Monarchy, those who have threatened our beloved Royals have been met with contempt and stern punishment, but what if this threat isn't from a plotting anti-establishment group but is actually coming from Mother Nature?... read more

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