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Aquam signs two standpipe hire contracts
Aquam Water Services has been selected to operate standpipe hire services on behalf of two New Appointments & Variations (NAV) companies.
A NAV is a water provider which has replaced the statutory water company in a specific region. They can provide wholesale water services for an area, typically for a new or large development and have the same duties and responsibilities as the previous water company.
Aquam has signed new contracts with ESP Water and Albion Water. It will be providing temporary hire of its standpipes, including innovative smart monitoring devices, to developers and other third party users of the network, as well handling all hire applications and associated billing services.
Stuart Henderson, Aquam operations
director, said, “We are proud to have been selected to provide standpipe hire services on behalf of ESP Water and Albion Water. The new contracts take the number of NAV partnerships we have up to 5 with another 3 in the pipeline – this is a big growth area for us.
“Typically, NAVs are dispersed across the UK, which makes the hiring of standpipes to individual end-users logistically challenging. As a long-standing supplier of licensed standpipes, Aquam is structured to provide hire services to utilities and NAVs across England and Wales, with a network of depots support our customers.
“Outsourcing to Aquam, an established standpipe solutions provider, ensures an efficient end-to-end process for NAVs and their customers who have hired standpipes. They will also benefit from
Stuart Henderson
access to our smart standpipes, which enable more precise network monitoring.”
Aquam is an accredited supplier of licensed standpipes for many UK water utilities and can identify, supply and deliver the correct, legally compliant standpipe to any authorised user. Its unique smart standpipe technology can calculate in real time the precise volume of water extracted from the network and assign it to an authorised user.
The Integrated Water Cycle: does its value outweigh its cost?
The integral water cycle is essential in human development. Its multiple applications give it a leading role and, therefore, make water a resource that must be protected to ensure sustainability. However, according to Idrica, there are still those who do not appreciate its importance, focusing on factors such as price at the expense of the value that proper investment holds.
Nowadays, society is being bombarded with information about information technologies, digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the
midst of this burgeoning technological landscape, Idrica believes it is crucial to stop for a moment and reflect on whether all these technological advances are being used effectively and how they can be deployed efficiently across society.
When talking about the water sector, Idrica, founded by Fomento Urbano de Castellón, S.A. (Spain), stresses the importance of new technologies in efficient water resource management at a time like the present, when organizations such as the World Bank and the UN are warning of the need to take action to reduce the water stress affecting more than 1.1 billion people.
This is why it is essential to address the question of the difference between cost and value, i.e., how much does water cost or how much is water worth?
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