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South East Water surpasses target for water efficiency collaboration with farmers and landowners in Kent and Sussex

H2O Team — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:52:25 +0000

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South East Water surpasses target for water efficiency collaboration with farmers and landowners in Kent and Sussex

South East Water has exceeded its five-year target for working with other water abstractors to reduce water use in Sussex and Kent, helping to protect vital water sources and support the long-term sustainability of local farming.

Over the past five years, the company has offered abstractors schemes such as water efficiency audits, advice packages, participation in crop trials, and leakage reduction incentives.

The company’s environment team achieved a 100 per cent engagement rate with abstractors within the River Cuckmere pilot catchment in Sussex and a 28 per cent engagement with licence holders in the Little Stour catchment in Kent. Combined, this represents a total engagement of 38 per cent across both trial areas, significantly outperforming its Ofwat target of 20 per cent.

The drinking water company, which supplies 543 million litres of water daily to 2.3 million customers, has been working closely with farmers and landowners who also abstract water from the environment. Through this collaboration, South East Water has used its specialist knowledge to encourage greater water efficiency for both personal and environmental benefit.

This marks the third target the environment team has surpassed in the last five-year business period.

Emma Goddard, Head of Environment at South East Water, said:

I’m incredibly proud of the work our environment team has done over the last business period and continues to do. We are collaborating directly with farmers and landowners to enhance water quality, creating a beneficial outcome for all involved while leaving enough water for the environment to thrive. These measures are crucial for protecting essential water sources and supporting the future of farming in the region.

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Yorkshire reservoirs record largest weekly rise in over 30 years

H2O Team — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:14:22 +0000

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Yorkshire reservoirs record largest weekly rise in over 30 years

Yorkshire’s reservoirs have recorded their largest weekly increase in more than three decades, with total stocks rising to 45.6%—an uplift of 14.8 percentage points in seven days following heavy rainfall across the region. Despite the improvement, storage remains well below the seasonal average of 69.6%.Significant inflows were reported at several key reservoirs over the last week, including:

Scar House (Nidderdale): over 3 billion litres
Grimwith (Yorkshire Dales): over 2.7 billion litres
Langsett (South Yorkshire): over 900 million litres
Digley (West Yorkshire): over 750 million litres

Groundwater levels and river flows across the region have also seen a marked rebound, helping support water resources recovery.

Dave Kaye, director of water services at Yorkshire Water, said:

The rainfall we’ve seen over the last seven days has had a significant impact – the largest weekly increase in stocks we’ve seen in 30 years. The rain over the last seven days has also recharged groundwater and the region’s rivers. The recharge of the rivers means we can enact our drought orders and permits to allow the reservoirs maximum recovery.

While the increase in reservoir and groundwater stocks is positive and very welcome after the driest summer on record, our stocks are still well below where they should be at this time of year. We hope the reservoirs and groundwater will continue to recover through the autumn and winter months so we’re in a good position entering 2026.

Despite the relief of the rainfall, we are continuing our efforts to tackle more than 800 leaks per week and lay over 1,000km of new water pipes over the next five years. The hosepipe restrictions remain in place and will be in effect until reservoir and groundwater levels have seen sufficient recovery. We’re hoping this will occur through usual autumn and winter rainfall and we will continue to monitor levels and remove the restrictions as soon as we are able.

Once again we’d like to thank customers’ efforts to adhere to the restrictions and for those taking further steps to conserve water resources.

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New technology for flood/drought alerts

louise davey — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:24:18 +0000

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New technology for flood/drought alerts

OTT HydroMet has launched a new self-contained Flood Monitoring System that offers accuracy and reliability, with installation and operation simplicity.

“In its recent ‘State of the UK Climate’ report, the UK Met Office warned: temperature and rainfall extremes are becoming the norm; as result, there is a growing demand for early warning systems, and the OTT FMS Flood Monitoring System has been designed to meet that need,” explains OTT’s Dr Liam Goodes.

The new OTT FMS includes an advanced radar level sensor, a datalogger, a modem and a compact solar/battery power supply. The system is compact, easy to install and can be operational within minutes of installation; monitoring water levels and providing timely warnings via cellular and internet communications. The system is ideal for both freshwater and saltwater environments.

The accuracy and reliability of the OTT FMS are underpinned by two extra anti-tamper internal sensors within the radar. A relative humidity sensor and an inclinometer continuously check that the radar sensor is operating correctly, and in its installed position – delivering meta data to confirm that water level measurements are correct.

With Bluetooth connectivity, the OTT FMS can be configured safely from a smartphone or laptop. Remote connectivity means that water managers can view data without having to make site visits, which saves costs and improves sustainability.

“This instrument is a water manager’s dream,” Liam explains. “It’s quick and easy to install, it operates reliably and remotely with negligible maintenance, but sends immediate, advanced warnings of potentially dangerous situations, whilst delivering a long-term dataset to monitor trends. System metadata is a game-changer for hydrologists and network managers needing to diagnose site issues from their desks – particularly in very remote or vandalism-prone areas. We foresee a strong demand for these systems as the UK flips between flood and drought.”

New technology for flood/drought alerts
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South West Water pledges £2 million for community-led initiatives supporting environmental resilience and biodiversity

louise davey — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:17:55 +0000

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South West Water pledges £2 million for community-led initiatives supporting environmental resilience and biodiversity

Local efforts to improve nature and ecology in the South West will receive significant investment from a new £2million Nature Recovery Fund created by South West Water.

The package will support community-led projects to boost the environment by assisting environmental partnerships across Cornwall, Devon and the wider South West.

Part of the investment will help to expand volunteer programmes focused on grassroots biodiversity and nature conservation, which are delivered by local environmental groups. The fund also hopes to support initiatives with local groups to improve water quality in the River Dart.

Collaborative projects with Plymouth City Council and the Environment Agency to enhance rainwater harvesting and catchment management for better bathing water quality are also planned, as well as community rainwater storage in St Agnes.

These schemes will help to guard against storm overflow events during heavy rainfall by temporarily diverting or storing rainwater, cutting the volume of water in sewers to more manageable levels.

The Nature Recovery Fund will also be used to expand existing pond creation schemes, tree planting, and other community-driven environmental projects, with funding priorities shaped in partnership with local environmental stakeholders.

Susan Davy, Chief Executive, said: “We are continuing to make big improvements to our environmental record. This fund will help to support grassroots, community-led work to protect and restore our natural environment across the regions we serve.

“Over the next five years, South West Water will continue to invest in critical infrastructure, increasing capacity across our estate and guarding against future disruptions.

“We look forward to working with partners and communities across our areas as we increase our efforts to protect and support the environment across the whole of our region.”

South West Water pledges £2 million for community-led initiatives supporting environmental resilience and biodiversity
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Temporary hosepipe restrictions for South East Water’s Kent and Sussex customers

louise davey — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:40:12 +0000

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Temporary hosepipe restrictions for South East Water’s Kent and Sussex customers

Record-breaking demand for drinking water has put significant pressure on drinking water supplies, as the region grapples with a prolonged dry period and an approaching third heatwave of the summer. Met Office reports indicate this spring was the driest since 1893, with dry conditions expected to persist throughout the warmer months.

At the start of the year, South East Water’s storage of raw (untreated) water was good. However, demand from May onwards has seen the company’s raw water levels fall faster and earlier than usual. They have now reached a point where they have exceeded the limits in the company’s drought plan and will soon start to also impact the environment.

Demand for drinking water in Kent and Sussex has reached record levels since May – with warm and dry weather fuelling customer demand to a much higher level than the company is able to consistently provide. This situation has left South East Water with no choice but to restrict the use of hosepipes and sprinklers in both counties, affecting around 1.4 million customers. It continues to monitor the situation in its Western region, where it serves customers in parts of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. To see how much water is being used, click here.

In recent weeks demand for water has increased to the highest levels ever seen for this time of year, reaching 680 million litres on 30 June 2025. This is 105 million litres of water a day more than the average for summer. On days like this, South East Water is pumping enough water to supply an additional four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne.

South East Water is aware there are a number of leaks on the network and it is working hard to fix these. In the last year the company found and fixed over 18,000 leaks on its network and a further 6,000 customer side leaks. This is more than 12 per cent than in the previous year.

David Hinton, Chief Executive Officer, South East Water, said: “Providing the public water supply during this prolonged period of hot and dry weather continues to be challenging. Water supply resources have been significantly stretched, but are pleased that so far we have been able to largely meet customer demands, through balancing our network and putting our newly arrived tanker fleet into operation straight away.

“However, we know that continued demand at this level presents a serious concern to ensure that we can protect the environment and keep everyone supplied. Despite asking for customers’ help to use water for essential uses only, regrettably we’ve now been left with no choice but to introduce this temporary use ban restriction to protect customers supplies and the environment across Kent and Sussex.

“We continue to monitor the long term weather forecast, and will review this decision on a regular basis. Restricting the use of hosepipes and sprinklers to make sure we have enough water for our customers’ essential use will ensure we can serve our vulnerable customers and to protect the local environment.

The temporary restrictions, announced today, will mean customers will be prevented from using hosepipes for watering their gardens, washing cars, windows and patios, or filling swimming and paddling pools.

“We are very aware that climate change and other factors are increasing the frequency of these events. Hosepipe restrictions are an integral part of our drought mitigation in the UK and are designed to protect supplies and the environment.

“I would like to thank everyone who has already taken steps to try and reduce their overall water use but despite this, demand still remains very high and the forecast suggests a dry summer is highly likely which is why we have taken this decision to bring in temporary use restrictions.”

Further information on exemptions to restrictions can be viewed on the company’s website at: www.southeastwater.co.uk/tubs

For water saving tips along with free water efficiency gadgets go to: www.southeastwater.co.uk/savewaterinthesun

For information on the latest water demand levels across the region go to: www.southeastwater.co.uk/waterlatest

To sign-up for the company’s Priority Services Register which is available for customers with medical conditions, restricted mobility, additional needs, sight and hearing issues who may need some extra support contact the Customer Care Team on 0800 952 4000 or go to www.southeastwater.co.uk/psr

Temporary hosepipe restrictions for South East Water’s Kent and Sussex customers
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Tech Challenge Winners Address Pressing Water Challenges

louise davey — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:55:12 +0000

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Tech Challenge Winners Address Pressing Water Challenges

The Water Council announces the winners of our spring 2025 Tech Challenge, chosen by our sponsors to help solve real challenges in the water sector: Nafura Advanced Technologies and Segura Water, both based in the United Kingdom, and Atkinson Lab, part of Princeton University in New Jersey.

The Water Council’s Tech Challenge connects water innovators with leading water technology companies, facilitating potential partnerships and helping new ideas and technologies gain exposure in the industry.

Winners were selected from dozens of submissions from 11 countries. The challenge’s sponsors – A. O. Smith Corporation, Badger Meter, Watts Water Technologies and our newest sponsor, Xylem – chose the challenge topics and selected the winners to receive $10,000 prizes:

Sensors for biological organisms and disinfectant byproducts: Atkinson Lab, part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton University. The Atkinson Lab develops biohybrid devices for sensing small-molecule chemicals and biological macromolecules (e.g., proteins, RNA and DNA) and converting binding events into electrical signals.
Removal of organic contaminants from water: Nafura Advanced Technologies, based in Stoke-on-Trent, U.K. Nafura, in partnership with Deep Science Ventures, is transforming industrial wastewater management with a plasma-based system that delivers industrial-capacity water treatment in one-thousandth the footprint and half the cost of traditional methods.
“Lab on a chip” for water and wastewater applications: Segura Water, based in London. Segura transforms how utilities detect heavy metals in drinking water with a rapid, low-cost tool that provides lab-quality results in under five minutes right in the field.

“We know contaminants such as PFAS, heavy metals and biological organisms require a unique approach to water and wastewater treatment,” said Katie Kollhoff Mouat, director of innovation programs at The Water Council. “We’re proud to help uncover the next generation of solutions and connect them with the networks and resources they need to grow.”

Tech Challenge Winners Address Pressing Water Challenges
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Yorkshire Water shares update on water resources as Yorkshire drought declared

louise davey — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:46:18 +0000

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Yorkshire Water shares update on water resources as Yorkshire drought declared

Yorkshire Water reservoir stocks dropped 0.51% over the last week to 62.3% and the utility is reminding customers to continue saving water where possible, as the Environment Agency declared the region in drought today (Thursday 12 June).

According to the Met Office, spring 2025 was also Yorkshire’s warmest spring for mean temperature since records began in 1884.

The declaration of drought in Yorkshire does not immediately impact customers in the region, and Yorkshire Water will continue its efforts to reduce leakage, manage water resources and continue to help customers reduce demand.

Recent rainfall has meant the region has now seen 62% of long-term average rainfall in June. Despite demand of 1.3 billion litres per day, reservoir levels fell by 0.51% this week, compared to previous sustained weekly drops of 3%.

Currently, reservoir stocks are at 62.3% – still significantly below the average (85.5%) for this time of year.

Customers’ efforts to use water wisely and the recent rainfall has helped to stabilise reservoir levels in Yorkshire in recent weeks, but with warm and dry weather forecast, and long-range forecasts suggesting a greater-than-normal chance of a hot summer, customers are reminded to continue saving water where they can.

Dave Kaye, director of water at Yorkshire Water, said: “We’ve seen water demand decrease in recent weeks thanks to the welcome rainfall and the efforts of our customers to save water.

“We had one of the driest springs on record, which has impacted our reservoir levels, meaning they are much lower than normal for this time of year. Without significant rainfall in the coming months, temporary usage restrictions are a possibility.

“The declaration of drought does not immediately change things for our customers. We’ll be continuing to work closely with the Environment Agency and will be working hard to carefully manage our resources and move water around the region to areas that need it most. We have 100 additional colleagues tackling leakage in the field and we’d like to thank customers for continuing to report leaks to us so we can repair them as soon as possible. It’s important customers continue with their own efforts to use water wisely to help protect water resources into the summer months.”

Water can be saved at home by:

Checking if you have a leaky loo by looking and listening for trickling water between flushes – they can waste up to 400 litres a day

Hold off doing your washing until you have a full load for the machine and using the eco setting if you have one

Use mulch and bark in your garden to reduce water evaporation by 75% and keep the moisture in the soil, and keep on top of weeds that take water from your plants

Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth – this can save 10 litres every time

Yorkshire Water shares update on water resources as Yorkshire drought declared
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NEOM: Rethinking Innovative Solutions to Global Water Scarcity in 2024 and Beyond Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

louise davey — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:28:56 +0000

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NEOM: Rethinking Innovative Solutions to Global Water Scarcity in 2024 and Beyond

Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

As the temperature rises around the globe at a recorded rate of .06 degrees Celsius each year, there is an alarming decline of freshwater biodiversity. Simply put, this poses a critical threat to human life. In countries which lack surface area, like Saudi Arabia and its neighbors in the Middle East, this has long been recognized as a major concern. I have witnessed first-hand how the lack of access to clean water can oppress entire communities, stifle healthcare and impede trade and business – in countries like China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia and Mexico – and know the necessity of establishing global, private-public partnerships to work to solve this pressing issue.

I submit that the solution to water scarcity actually lies in the vastest resource on our planet, our oceans. Desalinating seawater isn’t a new concept – countries including Saudi Arabia have been doing this for decades, but as desalination is an energy intensive process we have been moving towards a more holistic approach. Whomever is able to blueprint a complete cyclical system powered by renewable energy and, most importantly, integrated with brine processing, is the person who will solve global water scarcity and thus the underlying sustainability challenges surrounding it.

Gavin van Tonder – Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

The prospect of solving this challenge is what brought me—and many others from around the globe—to NEOM, the sustainable regional development taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia. I’ve joined the team at ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, to assist in building the world’s most ambitious water infrastructure project. Throughout my career I’ve been actively involved in water infrastructure projects globally, and thus see great value in NEOM’s forward-thinking commitment to redefining livability, business and conservation.

NEOM itself will be home to a cognitive city, mountain and seaside luxury destinations, a global logistics hub with a next-gen port and much, much more. But my remit at NEOM is quite clear: to provide water to millions of people who will come to live, work and play here.

ENOWA represents a true, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design a greenfield water system without any legacy constraints – fully circular, self-sustaining, and environmentally regenerative. For anyone with experience developing large-scale infrastructure projects, you’ll understand just how bold of an endeavor that is. No one has ever built a model of this size or scale. NEOM boasts a landmass of 26,500 square kilometers, roughly the size of Belgium.

Key to our success will be unlocking operational efficiency and maximizing innovation and output at every step of the water value chain. This includes using advanced membrane technology to produce separate brine streams, enabling us to produce and develop brine-derived products to be monetized downstream. Seawater brine is usually considered a waste output of desalination. In NEOM as part of our zero-waste approach, brine will be used to produce valuable industrial materials that can be used locally or exported internationally.

Furthermore, we will also recycle 100% of wastewater in NEOM, so it can be reused in landscaping, agriculture, and construction, thus reducing the amount of seawater we need to desalinate. Our water recycling technologies will also produce biosolids for fertilizer and biogas to power our treatment plants to achieve energy neutrality.

ENOWA Water Treatment Plant

The millions of customers living in and visiting NEOM will be connected by 5,000 kilometers of smart water transmission pipelines and a fully digital Internet of Water (IoW) infrastructure. Digital twins will provide real-time demand management, anomaly detection, maintenance prediction, water quality monitoring and control to ensure resilience and reliability of services. In combination, these tech-led strategies will achieve a world-first benchmark of less than 3% network losses, compared to average loss rates of 30 to 60% around the world.

While we are realizing efficiency and optimization at every step, the best way to do this is by shifting our focus to restoring water ecosystems, enhancing urban water resilience and bolstering water-resilient food systems. It is the sum total of these advancements that will make ENOWA a global water reference and a blueprint to how we can solve the world’s biggest problem – the scarcity of water.

And if we can do it here, it can be done everywhere.

NEOM: Rethinking Innovative Solutions to Global Water Scarcity in 2024 and Beyond

Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

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Science-based Evidence Takes Time, Diligence & a Lot of Data Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

hello — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:56:31 +0000

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Science-based Evidence Takes Time, Diligence & a Lot of Data

Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

Stroud Water Research Center (the Stroud Center) started in 1967 as a multidisciplinary field research station to explore threats and solutions to healthy streams and rivers. Today the Stroud Center continues to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration. Maintaining its interdisciplinary approach to science incorporating ecology, biology, chemistry, geomorphology, and field earth science, the Stroud Center’s research helps businesses, landowners, policymakers, and individuals make informed decisions that affect water quality and availability around the world.

Scott Ensign, Vice President of the Stroud Center said, “One of the unique attributes of the Stroud Center is that we advocate for science-based solutions but do not get involved in politics. Our research and discoveries are valued by scientists, regulators, and stakeholders because of our unbiased approach.”

Connecting hydrology & ecology

The Stroud Center has eight Ph.D. scientists that are leading a variety of research based on evolving questions that impact the health of freshwater systems. These projects involve working with a broad spectrum of experts and agencies including; fisheries, laboratories, entomologists who study aquatic invertebrates, ecosystem ecologists who are looking at how plant and microbial communities cycle nitrogen and phosphorus or break down complex pesticides in the environment, geomorphologists who are studying how rivers and watersheds are shaped, and microbiologists who are studying to understand not just single organisms, but entire communities within their genetic context.

To understand how sediment moves or how pesticides degrade or how groundwater is affected by agriculture, the Stroud Center collects an enormous amount of data from multiple sources over long periods of time. “Monitoring watersheds requires diligence and consistent measurements over decades. Quality assurance and control of this data for easy access to visualize trends and get what we need when we want it, is where Aquarius comes in,” said Ensign. Aquarius is a software platform that is used by monitoring agencies around the world to acquire, process, model, and publish data in real time.

The Stroud Center does a lot of research and large-scale experiments to better understand the link between streams and watersheds by investigating the flow of groundwater and how riparian ecology (plant habitats along the stream) influences the health of streams. For over 50 years, researchers have been monitoring the effects of transforming agricultural land along a riverbank back to its natural state of forest-lined stream. Using Aquarius, researchers can arrange and analyze data and find relationships between such things as sediment flux, dissolved oxygen, and discharge of the stream to determine the health of a river.

An explosion of data requires solid management

There has been a tremendous revolution in the collection of water data in the last 10-15 years. Research centers can collect high-frequency data at a fraction of the cost it used to be – the end result is a lot of data. The challenge is no longer the collection of data, but rather maximizing the value and use of this information.

“Twenty years ago, it would have taken a huge budget to collect the amount of data we are gathering today. The development of lower-cost data collection systems enables not just professional scientists but citizen scientists and organizations like the Delaware River Watershed Initiative to deploy sensors throughout areas of interest. In collaboration with other partners, we created the Monitor My Watershed Data Sharing Portal which streams data to the web from about 120 sites across the Delaware River basin every five minutes,” said Ensign.

The Stroud Center then pulls this data into Aquarius for quality control, error detection, documenting of changes, and allowing for automatic bias corrections. Alerts can also be configured to warn researchers of unusual events or issues related to the monitoring equipment.

Monitoring the flow of salt and contaminants

A recent discovery that came out of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative was the degree to which road salt moves through the environment – washing into watersheds in the winter and coming up in groundwater in the summer. With so many sensors, placed throughout the community, watershed organizations gained an unprecedented microscopic view of the data which delivered hard evidence on locations where salt application is a problem and where it isn’t. Sharing this information allows communities to advocate for change to protect their watersheds.

The Stroud Center also studies contaminants in watersheds and has partnered with the Center for PFAS Solutions in Delaware to provide data on where PFAS is originating and how it is moving through the environment. Data on the movement of insecticides, such as neonicotinoids is another important area of monitoring as they are commonly used and overapplied resulting in a series of negative effects on ecosystems.

Watershed restoration team takes discoveries into action

In 2012 the Stroud Center formed the Robin L. Vannote Watershed Restoration Program, a team of six specialized practitioners that work with landowners to share best agricultural practices for protecting healthy river systems. This might be planting riparian forests along the banks or implementing better crop management practices such as cover cropping or reduced tillage.

“Over the last 50 years, we’ve collected data showing that riparian ecology affects the chemistry of the stream, movement of the riverbanks, and the quality of water for species living in it. This is a core reason why our watershed restoration team has such success – we have the proof to demonstrate the solution,” said Ensign.

While methods of collecting data and frequency may change it’s vital that the Stroud Center can easily manage and analyze the data to show these broad changes over time and then attribute those changes to processes that can be implemented in real life. This program has also provided the science and programming for a statewide initiative to replant indigenous forests along riverbanks throughout Pennsylvania.

Taking hydrological education to new heights

In the 1990s the Stroud Center expanded the sharing of its research with k-12 educators, students, researchers, agency personnel, and citizen scientists by developing educational resources and providing on-site and remote instruction. The Stroud Center’s Education Department is led by educators and environmental education researchers who ensure that resources and curricula comply with state and federal learning standards. Many of the digital, online learning resources are featured in WikiWatershed and include:

Model My Watershed – users can analyze geospatial data, model storms, and compare watershed conservation and development scenarios.

Runoff Modulation – users can see how changes in rainfall amount, the surfaces on which the rain falls, and soil texture change where the water goes.

Monitoring My Watershed – users can discover and map monitoring data from multiple sources. Share and compare your monitoring data with the world.

Enviro DIY – users join a community of do-it-yourself enthusiasts sharing open-source ideas for environmental science and monitoring.

Leaf Pack Network – users can discover what aquatic insects can tell you about your stream’s health by performing a simple leaf pack project.

Leaf Pack Network Simulation – users can run a virtual study to assess stream health via habitat characteristics, macro-invertebrates, and chemistry.

Macroinnvertebrates.org – users can identify common freshwater macroinvertebrates with this resource designed for citizen scientists.

Water Quality Mobile App – users can enhance stream study and monitoring activities for students and citizen scientists.

These educational programs expanded significantly during the pandemic, as educators were looking online for resources. There are now five full-time people managing the Education Department with a dozen part-time instructors.

The Stroud Center has successfully expanded on its three pillars – research, education and restoration – using Aquarius to manage and analyze scientific data so researchers and educators can take the data and create meaningful change. The Stroud Center is also a recipient of the Ripple Effect, a software grant from Aquatic Informatics that will enable them to use the new interface as well as the new and modern rating review tool for the rating curves.

“By engaging citizens in learning how the world operates hydrologically, we believe that wherever people go or whatever people choose to do they will be mindful of their impact and have the ability to put their knowledge into practice,” concluded Ensign.

Author: Intan Distler – Technical Sales Engineer for Aquatic Informatics

Intan specializes in environmental monitoring networks and helps agencies to seamlessly and securely centralize, analyze, and publish environmental data and provide real-time access across multiple devices and applications.

Science-based Evidence Takes Time, Diligence & a Lot of Data

Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

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Veolia Water Technologies secures water production for Ezz Steel, saving freshwater from the Nile river

hello — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:10:28 +0000

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Veolia Water Technologies secures water production for Ezz Steel, saving freshwater from the Nile river

In water-scarce Egypt, major industrial players have been looking for ways to reduce their water consumption. Ezz Steel, one of the leading steel producers in the Middle East and Africa, entrusted Veolia Water Technologies Egypt with supplying mobile water solutions that allowed cooling water supply to switch from the Nile River to desalinated seawater. This change is saving precious freshwater resources while helping Ezz Steel maintain business continuity.

Ezz Steel rolling mills and Ezz flat steel plants are located in Al-Sokhna, an industrial area near the city of Suez in Egypt. The plants used to be supplied with freshwater from the Nile river before recently making the change to desalinated seawater — a source water with a relatively high level of chloride which could affect the whole cooling process. Veolia deployed seven brackish water reverse osmosis mobile water treatment units to further treat the desalinated water, doing so in two phases to ensure a quick response: within only two months, Veolia provided an initial 8,000 m³/d capacity which was doubled during the second phase in April 2023 to reach 16,000 m³/d.

Thanks to Veolia’s mobile water treatment units, Ezz Steel were able to secure 100% of their water production with lower chloride and total dissolved solids rates, allowing them to keep the water flowing into their cooling system. In doing so, Ezz Steel have reduced their water and chemical consumption by approximately 75%.

Mohamed Bakry, Utilities Senior Manager at Ezz Steel, commented: “Cooling is the primary water-consuming process in steel manufacturing plants. Veolia was able to provide an emergency response with the first phase being up and running in two months. It allowed us to reduce the use of freshwater while maintaining the steel production of our plants and reaching the required water quality.”

“In parts of the world affected by water scarcity, reducing their water footprint by optimizing cooling operations and maximizing water reuse is a game changer for industries. Veolia Water Technologies is pleased to collaborate with EZZ Steel and accompany them in their ecological transformation. Our team was able to rapidly offer an alternative to the environmental challenge they were facing by providing a reliable and secure source of water to answer their urgent needs” stated Laurent Hanique, Middle East Techno Products & Services Director for Veolia Water Technologies.

With a worldwide fleet, Veolia’s mobile water services allow companies to benefit from a reliable and secure source of treated water 24/7, 365 days per year, to supply their core operations.

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South East Water surpasses target for water efficiency collaboration with farmers and landowners in Kent and Sussex

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Yorkshire reservoirs record largest weekly rise in over 30 years

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New technology for flood/drought alerts

South West Water pledges £2 million for community-led initiatives supporting environmental resilience and biodiversity

Temporary hosepipe restrictions for South East Water’s Kent and Sussex customers

Tech Challenge Winners Address Pressing Water Challenges

Yorkshire Water shares update on water resources as Yorkshire drought declared

NEOM: Rethinking Innovative Solutions to Global Water Scarcity in 2024 and Beyond Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

Gavin van Tonder - Managing Director of Water at ENOWA

Science-based Evidence Takes Time, Diligence & a Lot of Data Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

Connecting hydrology & ecology

An explosion of data requires solid management

Monitoring the flow of salt and contaminants

Watershed restoration team takes discoveries into action

Taking hydrological education to new heights

Author: Intan Distler – Technical Sales Engineer for Aquatic Informatics

Delivering discoveries for change takes a powerful platform

Veolia Water Technologies secures water production for Ezz Steel, saving freshwater from the Nile river

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