Apr.
2025
Energy from seawater: construction of a district heating network on the French Coast
In Les Sables d’Olonne – about 100 kilometers south of Nantes in France – an innovative district heating network is being developed. The pipes for building were delivered by Swiss company Brugg. ...
Feb.
2025
Aquatech Innovation Award: The nominees
The Aquatech Innovation Award celebrates groundbreaking solutions across categories like wastewater treatment, water supply, and green chemicals. Discover the 13 nominees' impressive technologies that are shaping the ...
Nov.
2024
Tief im Stollen: Der Weg ins Herz des Pumpspeicherkraftwerks
Die Bauarbeiten am Pumpspeicherkraftwerk im baden-württembergischen Forbach schreiten voran: Aus einem Speicher- und Laufwasserkraftwerk wird jetzt ein modernes ...
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Aug.
2024
€6 million EU grant for wave-powered seawater desalination
The consortium leading the Norwegian cleantech start-up Ocean Oasis received the grant to build and deploy the first zero-emission offshore seawater desalination buoys. They will provide water for 15,000 people in the ...
Juli
2024
FluxGen collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate Water Replenishment in India
Bengaluru, India – FluxGen Sustainable Technologies, a provider of AI and IoT-powered industrial water management solutions, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to advance water replenishment initiatives at ...
Juli
2024
Technology Minimizes Biofouling on In-Situ Instruments for Decision-Quality Data
One of the biggest challenges of monitoring in aquatic environments is keeping instruments clean and free of sedimentation and ...
Juli
2024
Quantum sensors: How does the flow profile affect flow measurements?
Researchers at Fraunhofer IPM have developed a contactless flow measurement method based on magnetic fields. For the first time, they have been able to show the quantitative impact of the flow profile on the magnetic ...
Juni
2024
Solar-powered water treatment and distribution network for Ecuador’s Samborondón District
Amagua C.E.M. provides drinking water and wastewater management for the La Puntilla Parish in the Samborondón district of Ecuador. Committed to offering a quality, efficient water supply and sewerage service, they also ...
Mai
2024
Phosphorous recovery: investment to build the world’s first Ash2phos plant
EasyMining and Gelsenwasser, partners in the joint venture Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau GmbH (PGS), have committed to a significant investment to establish world's first plant for phosphorus recovery based on the ...
Juni
2023
Full ‘at scale trial’ of technology to cut NO₂ emissions of a WWTP
Suez announces its partnership with Severn Trent Water in the multimillion Net Zero Hub set to start in September in the latter's Strongford Sewage Treatment Works in Staffordshire, ...
Apr.
2023
Increasing Biodiversity on the River Clyde at Glasgow Science Centre
Biomatrix Water has installed Biomatrix Floating Ecosystems at the Science Centre in Glasgow. Glasgow Science Centre is a cutting edge visitor attraction bringing the wonder of science to hundreds of thousands of ...
März
2023
Novel Membranes for Better Wastewater Treatment
Together with population growth and industrialisation, water scarcity tops the list of global ...
März
2023
UWWTD revision: focus on extra water treatment in big cities
The current Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) aims to protect the environment from the harmful effects of insufficiently treated urban wastewater from agglomerations and certain industrial sectors. Nearly ...
Jan.
2023
New collaboration to create EU-wide water data management ecosystem
Waterverse is a new collaboration of ten EU-countries. One of the ambitions is to make water sector data management practices and resources more accessible, affordable, secure, fair and easy to ...
Jan.
2023
Offshore production of fresh water from ocean water
The Norwegian company Ocean Oasis is testing the Gaia prototype: a offshore floating desalination plant. It is powered by wave energy to carry out a desalination process of ocean water and pump potable water to ...
Dez.
2022
Danish robot minimises river pollutions
At least 70 cities in Europe can now prevent huge amounts of waste from ending up in the sea. This has been demonstrated in the city of Aarhus in Denmark, where the robot SeaProtectorOne, made by All In On Green, ...
Dez.
2022
Improving the efficacy of antibiotics and curbing resistance
New findings from the National Research Programme, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, are helping to curb antibiotic resistance. In the field of new antibiotics, however, structures needed for ...
Dez.
2022
New pumps enable water purification plant to increase efficiency
A large Indian water purification company has increased the efficiency and reliability of its water purification plant with 20 hours per day running due to Wanner Hydra-Cell ...
Dez.
2022
New solution for water treatment
Copperstone Resources AB (“Copperstone” or “the company”) and the water treatment company Teollisuuden Vesi Oy (“TeVe”) have jointly developed a new solution for water treatment which, since November, has ...
Nov.
2022
World-first underwater robot shortlisted for prestigious award
An innovative collaborative project which will see the development of a world-first underwater robot to repair a damaged ship’s hull while still in transit has been shortlisted for a prestigious industry ...
Nov.
2022
Earthshot Prize Finalists in the category „Revive our oceans“
The finalisits of the Earthshot Prize 2022 have been determined. Prince William announced the fifteen finalists - three finalists in five ...
Nov.
2022
Vegetation regulates energy exchange in the Arctic
Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land and the atmosphere. ...
Okt.
2022
Knowledge transfer on sustainable water infrastructure in India
India's fast-growing cities need an efficient infrastructure for water supply and wastewater disposal. A research cooperation, is therefore supporting the development of a sustainable water infrastructure in the ...
Sep.
2022
Massive new Chinese wastewater treatment plant employs membrane modules
This year in July the Yindingzhuang Wastewater Treatment Plant employs hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane modules from the company Toray. This advanced facility in Baoding, Hebei Province, is one of the largest in ...
Aug.
2022
Spring Accelerator announces first water challenge winners
Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology leaders are being accelerated through the UK water sector, thanks to new collaborative platform Spring. Technologies from Siemens, Xylem and Cobalt ...
Juni
2022
Efficient irrigation solution for new residential development in Istanbul
Norma Group is equipping the gardens of a new residential development in Istanbul with a durable and efficient irrigation system. The Norma PC drip irrigation system uses up to 70% less water than the more conventional ...
Juni
2022
Digitalization: smart transition to tablet-based leakage detection
A tablet-based leakage detection system has been launched by technology company Ovarro: next generation leak noise correlator Eureka5. The system displays information on an android tablet and does not require a ...