Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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FORESIGHT Write a caption As we featured last month, Clancy Docwra has been burrowing underneath Ramsgate to renovate the town's 'unique' Victorian sewer network. The work, on behalf of Southern Water, has included specialist technicians working to seal and line sections of the existing sewers to reduce the risk of bursts, leaks and floods. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by April 17, 2015. The best captions will be published in the May 2015 issue of WET News. • TOP TWEETS: Sir JOSEPh BazalgETTE 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 the man who had the foresight to create London's sewer network 150 years ago. COMiNg UP In 1865, Joseph Bazalgette opened the London sewers - but in 1950, 'flushers' were still employed to keep them clean. @The_East_End Watching 'How We Got To Now' with @stevenbjohnson on BBC. Interesting but so very American. Doing sewer history without Bazalgette? @tweetyaca 1858 and Punch Magazine highlights the deadly state of the Thames before Bazalgette's sewers were built... #eastend @The_East_End Bazalgette developed the London sewer system in the 1860s but open sewers still existed in Silvertown in 1900. @The_East_End Celebrating 150 years of #London's sewers & Sir Joseph Bazalge- tte one of London's top hero #engineer! @SciAnouk The Fleet river incorporated into Bazalgette's sewer, what a great name for a plumber... #London. @joeflanagan1 Furthermore, those Sheffield sewers were put in *well before Bazalgette finished the London system*. Well, whaddaya know? @PaulGrahamRaven Last month's best answers "Now that's what I call a Royal flush!" Paul King, Haydn Evans Consulting "My great- great- great-grandmother would have loved this" John Purdy, Treatment Technology "Mummy promised I could where the orange trousers if I stepped in for her! "Can anyone hear that gushing sound? 28 WET NEWS APRIL 2015 Let Denso Transform Your Pipebridge! From this... Flaking original coating/rust with pitted surface. To this... Protected by the Denso Steelcoat 100/400 System. ...Act now before it's too late! If you have a deteriorating steel pipebridge, the Denso Steelcoat 100/400 System can save it, normally long after alternative conventional coating remedies cease to be effective. In compliance with enviromental restrictions against shot blasting, over rivers etc, the system only requires simple hand tool surface preparation and once applied properly will give a minimum of 20 years maintenance free service life. Only Denso can offer this amazingly long service life from simple hand tool surface preparation. Please don't leave it too long before you talk to us though because corrosion never stops and whilst Denso have the best solution for you that is available, even we can't work miracles. LEADERS IN CORROSION PREVENTION & SEALING TECHNOLOGY Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd Tel: 0208 670 7511 ● Web: www.denso.net Please email UK Sales Manager, Keith Corfield for more information or for an obligation free survey of your pipebridge: kcorfield@denso.net Wet News Quarter Page Advert_Layout 1 02/02/2015 13:59 Page 1 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. 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. Wastewater Infrastructure & Networks Holiday Inn, Birmingham May 19, 2015 www.wwt-wastewater.net The third annual conference is essential for wastewater service and solutions providers seeking to optimise existing assets and solve infrastructure and network challenges. Wales Water 2015 Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel & Spa. Cardiff. May 20, 2015 www.wwt-wales.net The must-attend conference will examine the new Water Strategy for Wales, along with the current and future pressures facing the sector, such as land use mapping and its importance in planning interventions, and catchment management innovation.