THE MAGAZINE FOR THE DRAINAGE, WATER & WASTEWATER INDUSTRIES


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industry is a huge challenge. We need to help our supply chains to integrate their processes and create better ways of working; only by working together can the industry achieve its goals of making installation overspend a thing of the past. Now more than ever players in the industry advocate the collaboration across industry sectors, which leads to the development of solutions and best practice that when combined deliver tangible value for our customers. This allows for the defining of the needs of the sector and its stakeholders and jointly creates solutions based on overcoming the issues faced.


If one thing can be gleaned for the forgoing article it is that the way forward for both road and rail drainage operations is that cooperation and collaboration right across the supply chain is key to the future success of the sector. With increasing pressures on drainage system from climate change and increasingly the extremes of weather patterns this appears to be creating in our part of the world there is an urgent need to get this sector working effectively and efficiently as never before if we as a nation are to minimise the images of flooded tracks and roads that are turned into rivers on the even news. In some areas where there is potential for ground water and river flows to overwhelm these systems there is other work to do with other agencies, but where flows can be managed the systems need to in place to do this job effectively – but this will


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not be cheap and perhaps given the nations finances this may be the biggest area of concern and difficulty.


Thanks to everyone who contributed information and images for this feature including: Keyline, Network Rail, Saint-Gobain and Stanton Bonna.


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Wastewater/Sludge Treatment


Contributions by: 10th March To: ian@nodigmedia.co.uk


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