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Testing for coronavirus in wastewater – a game changer in the fight against Covid-19? - Click here to view this entry

Testing for coronavirus in wastewater – a game changer in the fight against Covid-19?

Cath Hassell, ech2o consultants ltd
March 2020
We all know that Covid-19 is a respiratory illness and you catch it by inhaling infected droplets, but can the virus that causes it (SARS-CoV-2) be found in wastewater and if so is that a good or a bad thing?
Westcountry Women Working With Water (and Frankie the Flamingo!) - Click here to view this entry

Westcountry Women Working With Water (and Frankie the Flamingo!)

Dr Sarah Ward, University of the West of England
October 2019
Imaginative and immersive experiences as a child can last a life time and at a time where the planet faces a range of challenges, we need to engage children and young people in positive, action-orientated ways.



From June 2018-July 2019, a team of engineers and engagement professionals embarked on a project for children focusing on the urban water cycle, flooding and sustainable drai....
Conserving water = conserving energy: how can I reduce my water usage? - Click here to view this entry

Conserving water = conserving energy: how can I reduce my water usage?

Dawn Murphy, Action Renewables
August 2019
An average person in the UK uses 140 litres of water per day. That may seem like a lot, but when you consider our everyday uses such as showering, bathing, toilet flushing, washing dishes, washing cars, watering gardens and of course drinking, it all adds up. But out of those 140 litres you use, how many of those do you drink? Doesn't it seem like a waste to treat water to drinking quality j....
Green Energy from Black Water: The Hamburg Water Cycle - Click here to view this entry

Green Energy from Black Water: The Hamburg Water Cycle

Eleanor Eaton, WATEF network
July 2019
This year’s study trip takes us to Hamburg, to see how HAMBURG WASSER are building innovative wastewater technology: the HAMBURG WATER Cycle into a new residential district; the Jenfelder Au.
How can labelling help us reduce our water use? - Click here to view this entry

How can labelling help us reduce our water use?

Andrew Tucker - Water Efficiency Manager at Thames Water
July 2019
Across the nation, water fittings and appliances are being bought and installed every day. The daily grind of going to work, to school and just getting things done at home, means that 66 million people are using these fittings and appliances, morning and night. This adds up to an incredible amount of water – well over 9 billion litres used in just our homes each day.

So how can we reduc....
Investigating the non-technical challenges to installing micro-hydro in water networks - Click here to view this entry

Investigating the non-technical challenges to installing micro-hydro in water networks

Dawn Murphy, Action Renewables
June 2019
Dawn Murphy explores the aims and objectives of our partner project - REDAWN. The REDAWN project (Reducing Energy Dependency in Atlantic Area Water Networks) aims to foster the adoption of hydropower energy recovery technology in built water networks in the Atlantic Area (AA). The project involves 15 partners from 5 countries. The WATEF Network contributes to two work packages in this project. <....
Halving the amount of water we all use every day - why not?! - Click here to view this entry

Halving the amount of water we all use every day - why not?!

Nicci Russell, Waterwise Managing Director
May 2019
Readers will know that in the UK we each use, on average, 140 litres of water per day. At the 2019 Waterwise annual conference a few weeks ago, we focused on getting to 100 litres or less. Sir James Bevan put a lot of welcome oxygen on the subject with his now infamous ‘Jaws of Death’ speech, in which he said ‘We need water wastage to be as socially unacceptable as blowing smoke in the face ....
Equitable water access: leaving no one behind, wherever. - Click here to view this entry

Equitable water access: leaving no one behind, wherever.

Kemi Adeyeye, WATEF network
April 2019
This year’s World Water Day was on the 22nd of March, a day when we all consider the importance of water to life, health, livelihood and wellbeing. It is also a time to pause and think about the 2.1 billion people who still lack access to safely managed drinking water services and the 4.5 billion people who lack safely managed sanitation services.
Water efficient hot and cold water system design – the problems and possible solutions - Click here to view this entry

Water efficient hot and cold water system design – the problems and possible solutions

John Griggs
March 2019
For many years, a silo mentality has existed in the regulatory world that has permeated through to designers, architects and tradesmen. Whatever topic or item they are dealing with has been considered in isolation. This has created conflicting requirements, guidance and practices that have tended to hinder progress to newer and more ecological ways of doing things.
Micropollutants and Wastewater Treatment - Click here to view this entry

Micropollutants and Wastewater Treatment

Dr Jannis Wenk, University of Bath
February 2019
Of all the weird and wonderful things that find their way into our sewers, micropollutants are some of the most difficult to remove. Dr Jannis Wenk (University of Bath) explores what effects these pollutants have on our environment, and what technologies can be employed to remove these before they reach the food chain.

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