Water & Wastewater Treatment

6 | AUGUST 2019 | WWT | www.wwtonline.co.uk The Talk ROBIN HACKETT EDITOR WWT Iconic content T his issue, we're officially launching our new core themes for WWT. We're going to be focusing on six areas – water resources, drinking water quality, leaks & bursts, customer experience, sewer networks and wastewater quality – and going forward you'll notice the icons on the right appearing next to relevant content. As we start to tailor some of content towards specific areas of the industry, keep an eye out for some significant changes to the WWT website as well as the launch of a variety of new newsletters focused on our key themes. We're kicking off with an in-depth focus on water resources and how abstraction might change in the years to come (P9), which also ties into the wider Utility of the Future campaign we're promoting alongside sister magazines Utility Week and Network. Ensuring there is enough water for future demand; making abstraction more sustainable; building new storage; drought resilience; water transfers; driving down consumption; metering and smart metering. Water treatment; ensuring Drinking Water Inspectorate and Drinking Water Directive standards are met; catchment management; elimination of pesticides; customer-side issues; eutrophication and stratification in reservoirs; taste and odour issues. Leak detection; drones and aerial surveying; acoustic logging; pressure management; pipes and fittings; trenchless repair of pipes; smart networks, monitoring and analysis. C-MeX and D-MeX; supply interruptions; customer communication during incidents; apps, metering and water usage; water retail market and billing; developer services; campaigns to change customer behaviour. Sewer flooding; sustainable drainage; FOG blockages; sewer repairs; new sewer pipelines; wastewater pumping and pump blockages; sewer infiltration; CSOs and pollution; sewer monitoring; sewage heat recovery. Environmental regulation and Water Framework Directive; phosphorus removal from wastewater; industrial effluent treatment; microplastics; pharmaceuticals and emerging pollutants; resource recovery. WATER RESOURCES DRINKING WATER QUALITY LEAKS AND BURSTS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SEWER NETWORKS WASTEWATER QUALITY

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