Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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FORESIGHT Write a caption Prince Charles helped mark the 150th anniversary of London's sewer system when he recently visited Thames Water's Lee Tunnel and historic Abbey Mills Pumping Station. Apprentices Liam Kelleher and Tony Brown met HRH inside the 7m-wide Lee Tunnel, which runs 7km from Abbey Mills to Beckton sewage works. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by March XXX, 2015. The best captions will be published in the April 2015 issue of WET News. • TOP TWEETS: lEakagE On average, there are 500 million tweets every day on Twitter. We've sifted through a few of them to see what the global Twittersphere has been tweeting about on leakage and leak detection. COMINg UP Stuff [above] like this makes me happy. #leakage #leakdetection #savewater @UnluckySun #Waterleaks from US homes can exceed 1 trillion gallons in a yr. That's equal to the annual water use of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami. @DryTimeInc #DataDroplet: #NYC's #water supply system leaks up to 36 million gallons of water/day @OurWaterCounts Irish Water says half of water lost through leaks. @IrishTimes Last month's best answers "Flood or no flood this next-day delivery policy is getting ridiculous" S Mc Dermott, SMD Contracts "And if I open this window what happens again?" Jon read, ACWA Services Bill's newsagent instantly regretted the "we deliver anywhere" policy when Mr K. Nemo ordered his copy of Wet News. Robert Wallace, Powerstax [WIAA 2015 www.wwtonline/awards April 21, 2015 The Water Industry Achievement Awards, organised by WET News and WWT, will take place in April 2015 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The awards are the industry's leading awards ceremony, rewarding and celebrating innovation and best practice in the market today. Make sure you add the above important dates to your diary. Water Industry Innovation Conference Holiday Inn, Birmingham Marc h 23, 2015 www.wwt-innovation.net The conference will address the role of innovation and collaboration in AMP6. A host of speakers will examine the totex challenge, and explore the role of the supply chain and investment community in meeting long-term challenges such as climate change and population growth. Water Ireland Conference Pillo Hotel Ashbourne, Dublin March 27, 2015 www.wwt-ireland.net The conference will examine Ireland's most pressing issues including innovative methods to tackle sludge and FOG; flood risk mapping and management; the EU directives on water quality and river basin management plans; and recent legislation / policy updates.. Utility Week Live incorporating IWEX NEC, Birmingham, April 21-23, 2015 www.utilityweeklive.co.uk Utility Week Live incorporating IWEX is the UK's first and only exhibition dedicated to the business, operational and technical needs of the UK's water, electricity and gas utilities. The event provides an important information exchange and marketplace for the UK's multi-billion pound utilities industry and an ideal environment for exhibitors to do business. 32 WET NEWS MARCH 2015