Day: 19 June 2006

Toxic spill leaves 50k Chinese without water

NEWS IN BRIEF

Scottish Exec gives £250k to eco projects

Scottish Environment Minister Ross Finnie has announced grants just topping the £250,000 mark for seven environmental projects north of the border.

Embrace climate change challenges and prosper

Professor Mike Hulme, a leading authority on climate change, has said society and business could benefit by rising to the challenges posed by the shift in the global environment.

UN offers $200k desert prize

NEWS IN BRIEF

Big business reports on CSR progress

NEWS IN BRIEF

DON’T BE OVERCHARGED FOR DISCHARGE

THANKFULLY, THE days when industry poured its polluted effluent into the nearest watercourse and ignored the effects are behind us. However, the problems of pollution still remain.

POINT VERSUS CONTINUOUS LEVEL MEASUREMENT

THE VARIOUS PROCESS CONDITIONS PLAY A MAJOR PART IN THE TECHNOLOGIES USED TO MEASURE LEVEL. DONALD KOENEMAN AND WILLIAM SHOLETTE TAKE A LOOK AT THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR THE WASTEWATER INDUSTRY, AND RECOMMEND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

Trenchless trends in Northern Ireland

Sales of Hammerhead systems demonstrate a rise in pipe-bursting technology in Northern Ireland. Here we look at two recent cases

Best investment

Over the next four years, Scottish Water will be delivering a multi-billion pound scheme

Changes from within

As well as significant internal changes, Scottish Water is having to take account of a new abstraction charging regime and the creation of a new customer-representation body

Mixed fortunes for Scottish Water chiefs

It has been a year of mixed fortunes for those at the top of Scottish Water. While its chairman Alan Alexander departed after disagreements with ministers over its plans for delivering future investment, the publicly owned water company's chief executive, Dr Jon Hargreaves, was proclaimed Scotland's Public Sector Leader of the Year for 2005.

Keeping in touch

Mike Knights of Pacscom looks at the changes in telemetry that are on the way and which should be of benefit to the water industry

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