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and other related public health measures where current provision is absent or inadequate.
Mark Elliott, President of CIEH who opened and closed the event, said:
“Our first Water Quality Conference was a huge success thanks to the enlightening and engaging contributions of our speakers who sparked some really insightful debate and provided
information that will be of great benefit to our members.
“An adequate, wholesome, safe water supply is a human right and environmental health professionals have a critical role to play in the work being done to maintain and improve the integrity of our water supply. I’m sure those members and all who attended the conference went away thoroughly informed and inspired.”
Procure early to secure delivery, says supplier
The massive scale-up of work across the UK’s water and wastewater companies in AMP8 is no secret, but the way projects are delivered will have to change, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services.
A little celebrated fact about the UK is that it sits among the ten countries achieving the maximum score for drinking water quality, according to Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index. However, according to the chief inspector of the Drinking Water Inspectorate, the water industry needs to ensure strategic investment to maintain the quality and sufficiency of supplies.
being brought into use – and must meet ever-tightening quality standards.
Many of these sources are in rural areas where nitrate contamination from fertilisers requires removal. The Drinking Water Directive prescribes a maximum concentration of 50mg/l NO3 to ensure safe supplies, and the technologies capable of achieving the required parameters, in a tight footprint, are well proven.
ACWA’s own Nitreat process technology has been successfully installed at some 35 sites over 20 years. This shows that the AMP8 challenge will not only be around delivering successful outcomes, it will also be about the planning and execution due to the sheer number of sites requiring upgrades.
Dominic Hurd, MD, ACWA Services
As the main water company operating in the UK’s agricultural powerhouse of eastern England, Anglian Water is ahead of the curve in nitrate removal. The company has been working closely with ACWA for over two decades, and all the lessons learned have paved the way for the upscaling necessary to deliver the increased number of sites needed in AMP8.
Water companies already making decisions around their preferred approaches to nitrate removal, as they increase installations across multiple sites. The conversations they are having
Regulators are expecting water company investment plans in AMP8 – the asset management plan period 2025-30 – to prioritise drinking water quality and sufficiency, and build resilience to mitigate against scarcity and drought. The volumes required, in the face of population growth and climate change, mean that new groundwater sources are
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