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“High quality drinking water is fundamental to public health and sustainable economic growth. This is why the Government fully supports Scottish Water’s drinking water investment programme. Over the next six years, over £500 million per annum will be invested to further improve water and waste water services across Scotland.
“This investment is another fine example of Scottish
Water, a public sector organisation, delivering improvements for customers. Another crucial step on the path to ensuring that Scottish Water continues to provide one of the best value-for-money water and waste water services in the UK.”
Scottish Water’s investment will enable easier maintenance of the water supply network without impacting customers and will support the Ayrshire economy by reducing the risk of disrupting businesses, making the area more attractive for investment and helping it continue to grow. In addition, our work will support about 200 jobs and we expect to be able to create about 20 apprenticeships.
Future Water Association announce formal
partnership with Sheffield Water Centre The challenges faced by the water sector are being met head on by the Future Water Association (FWA) as they announce a formal partnership with the Sheffield Water Centre at the University of Sheffield.
Both organisations have a clear goal of future proofing the sector with innovative thinking and practical solutions and creating a formal partnership is the logical way forward to not only benefit the Future Water Associations’ members, but the water sector as whole.
Sheffield’s highly collaborative and innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by the water sector over the coming years made them an obvious partner for the Future Water Association who are themselves dedicated to promoting innovation within the supply Chain. Alastair Moseley, Chair of the Association’s ‘Innovation Steering Group’ said “the leadership demonstrated by Sheffield in promotion of innovation and R&D in our sector led us to the firm conclusion that they were an organisation that we should be working with. Their recent grant award of £3.9m from the EPSRC for the development the TWENTY65 research consortium involving 6 universities and 26 companies further demonstrates their leading position in driving the future development of our sector.”
As part of this collaboration, the 120+ member companies of the Future Water Association will have the opportunity to participate in ‘Thought Leadership Clubs’. Launched in March 2015, these are multi-disciplinary consortiums working with innovators from a variety of industries and perspectives to find novel solutions for water challenges. This partnership will allow members to work closely with researchers and take advantage of the R&D facilities in Sheffield, an exciting opportunity as the Water Centre has ambitious plans to develop and extend these facilities to include a new pipe infrastructure facility comprising a containment chamber in which infrastructure
elements (water pipes, sewer pipes/chambers) and their interaction with natural artefacts such as soil layers and voids can be studied.
Martyn Hopkinson, Chairman of the Future Water Association, commented “with the future challenges faced by our industry ever pressing, all stakeholders need to be even more innovative in their approach. The recent major flooding events have exacerbated these challenges and the opportunity for collaboration with academia, water companies and the supply chain is something the Future Water Association will embrace on behalf of our members and for the benefit of society as we seek to protect our most valuable resource for future generations.”
Professor Joby Boxall, University of Sheffield, stated “TWENTY65 is an exciting opportunity to take a radical look at what urban water systems could and should be. Working closely across the water sector will be key to generating a genuine shared vision for this”. Dr Vanessa Speight, University of Sheffield, added “we are excited to partner with the Future Water Association and their members to grow our collaboration with the water industry supply chain. These companies are the implementers of innovation and therefore are vital players in transforming our water systems to meet future challenges”.
Major Micro-Hydro cost savings with new Ham Baker/SPP partnership
A new Micro-Hydro partnership between Ham Baker Group and SPP Pumps promises to bring affordable, effective energy generation for water treatment inlet works and service reservoirs (typically 50m head, flow rate 2500m3).
The Pump as Turbine (PaT) solution from SPP, which benefits from Ham Baker’s expertise in control systems, will provide micro-hydro technology at one third to one half the cost of complicated traditional systems, offering major reductions in maintenance time and spares.
“Feed-in tariffs may seem off-putting for some hydro initiatives,” said Ian Goddard, Ham Baker Group’s Business Development Director, “but water companies can generate from as little as 10kW to as much as 250kW of energy from a PaT which they can then use on site. The industry’s mindset with hydro always seems to have been to think big, but with renewables now so important, the considerable opportunities with a PaT for Micro-Hydro should no longer be overlooked”.
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