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24 WET NEWS NOVEMBER 2017 COMING SOON • Write a caption Sheffield City Council commissioned Lanes Group to carry out the planned drain maintenance work at the Grade I Listed Sheffield Town Hall. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Sheffield depot installed 64 structural liners in pipes beneath the 120-year-old civic building in the centre of the city. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by November 15, 2017. The best captions will be published in the December 2017 issue of WET News. FORESIGHT Water Industry Awards 2018 The Vox, Birmingham May 21, 2018 wwtonline.co.uk/awards The Water Industry Awards, organised by WET News and WWT, are the industry's leading awards ceremony, rewarding and celebrating innovation and best practice in the market today. WWT Water Industry Technology Innovation Conference Birmingham November 30, 2017 events.wwtonline.co.uk/innovation Hear how the water sector is utilising game-changing technologies such as desalination, gasification and drones, and implementing innovative business strategies in order to meet increasing regulatory pressures and customer expectations. WWT Water Scotland Glasgow December 7, 2017 events.wwtonline.co.uk/scotland The conference will provide delegates with the opportunity to gain an insight into the future development plans of Scottish Water, reflect on SR19 and hear latest innovation case studies to benefit business. This is the only event dedicated to the evolving needs of the Scottish water sector. TOP TWEETS: #FATBERG On average, there are 500 million tweets every day on Twitter. We've sifted through a few of them to see Twittersphere's reaction to the BBC's TV and Radio 1 coverage of the Whitechapel 'monster' #fatberg. Never seen a crack in the composure of @huwbbc on #bbcnews but London's #fatberg brings the Huw equivalent of a full on rant: @browntoby @huwbbc reaction says it all #fatberg @Huwtedwards Isn't it time this #fatberg gets its own show? @wulliedouglas Cleaning the giant fat burg out of the London sewers must be the most horrible job in the U.K. #fatberg @Davehaymo It looks alive, twitching as lumps of fat are cleared from a sewer. My report on #BBCNewsTen - don't watch while eating #fatberg @davidshukmanbbc I thought Huw was going to chunder on air then #bbcnews #fatberg @lancs7 Oh my goodness - I really hope that chap who is breaking up the #fatberg is being paid an obscene amount of money. #bbcnews @Finchershealth The glamour of television. Scent of blocked toilet and rotting meat from a #fatberg - coming up on #BBCNewsTen @davidshukmanbbc Well if the #fatberg news footage doesn't make you want to be vegetarian @karlaanns1979 Last month's best answers "What do you mean 'It should be here?'" steve.coverdale@nwl.co.uk "Could it be you're holding it upside down?" MLiD@aim.com "From up here the Chamber Cover Template fits!" CLangham@LanghamControls.com www.dualpumps.co.uk Call 01664 567226 for more information TT29250DHE 250 Bar 29 Lpm TT41200DHE 200 Bar 41 Lpm TT18400DHE 400 Bar 18 Lpm TT15500DHE 500 Bar 15 Lpm 4 Models Flows up to 41 Lpm Pressures up to 500 Bar Pumps & Pumping Equipment Cleaning Equipment Cleaning Components Hose, Hose Reels & Accessories Fittings - Connectors - Filters Fluid Handling Components Spraying & Watering Engines - Motors - Generators - Frames 37 catalogue 37 catalogue Request a copy NOW over 7,000 products online High Pressure Plunger Pumps UK Official Distributor ...more than just pumps supplying quality products and service since 1975 Dual Pumps Manufacturing offers a range of pumping equipment; from engine driven pressure washers to centrifugal pumps & high pressure pumping modules up to 500 Bar. manufacturing The UK's only gas, water and electricity health & safety conference ALAN FEAKINS Director of health, safety & environment EDF Energy STEPHEN KENNEDY Regional director MWH Treatment GARETH MULLEN Head of safety, health, wellbeing and security Thames Water PENNY TAYLOR Head of utilities team Health & Safety Executive PETER VUJANIC Head of health safety & environment UK Power Networks CLAIRE SIMMONDS Business leader health safety & wellbeing Severn Trent Water DAVID MATTHEWS Group head of safety Anglian Water JUDITH GRANT Associate director health and wellbeing MACE Places limited, book your place today! www.utilityweek.net/hs SPEAKERS SUPPORTED BY: IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

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