Day: 16 September 2005

Renewables obligation too expensive says Public Accounts Committee

The Select Committee on Public Accounts has criticised the renewables obligation, saying that it is too expensive, poorly targeted, and not subject to Parliamentary scrutiny.

EU states lose environmental crime test case

The European court of justice has delivered a stinging rebuke to EU governments over environmental crime, clearing the way for the European commission and parliament to get involved in the field.

UN summit set to fail the world’s poorest on climate change

The UN summit in New York looks set to end with no firm action on climate change being agreed, despite broad recognition of the devastating impacts it will have and pleas from individual government ministers.

Making a clean break

Frank Rogalla assesses the results of a study into the potential effects that changing disinfectant could have on water quality in the distribution system

Assessing the assessment

Martin Allitt, of Sussex-based consultancy Richard Allitt Asssociates, looks at modern techniques for checking quality of flow survey data

The price of success

The south-east is a popular place to live and work, but with popularity come problems, not least with regard to water availability. Louise Every of the Institute for Public Policy Research assesses the issues

Sane in the membrane

Dr Paul Zuber of Brightwater Engineering looks at the sometimes difficult but ultimately successful development of MBR technology

Watching the waters

Andrew Wetherill of Yorkshire Water assesses the development of technology to monitor and optimise the process of coagulation

Power to the people

WWT talks to Ian Smith, convenor of Scotland's new water watchdog, Water Watch Scotland

Leaping the knowledge gap

Victorian CSO technology gave rise to some interesting hydraulic structures. Alan Wisdish from Atkins Water reports on how a novel approach was developed to represent CSOs in a hydraulic model

Barry’s beaches better by design

David J Brook describes the part MWH played in bringing better sewerage services to a section of the Welsh coast

Environmental alternatives

Barrie Clarke of Water UK asks whether environmentalism, as a name if not an ideal, may have outlived its usefulness

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