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28 WET NEWS DECEMBER 2015 ComiNg up • Write a caption Sewer technicians at Yorkshire Water have already unblocked sewers a staggering 50,888 times so far this year. The city with the most sewer blockages in the region is Sheffield, with more than 9,000 clogged up sewers fixed this year. Leeds has had 7,241 and Hull 3,932. The technicians, dubbed 'sewer crusaders' use high pressure water spray jets to break up blockages. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house.com by December 11, 2015. The best captions will be published in the January 2016 issue of WET News. WIAA 2016 May 17, 2016 wwtonline.co.uk/awards The Water Industry Achievement Awards, organised by WET News and WWT, takes place on May 17, 2016 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The awards reward and celebrate innovation and best practice in the market today. Water Northern Ireland Conference La Mon Hotel, Belfast February 25, 2016 www.wwt-ni.net The Water NI Conference, Networking Dinner & Exhibition is the only event that brings all the major stakeholders together to discuss the current and future pressures facing the sector in Northern Ireland. Smart Water Networks Conference Holiday Inn, Birmingham City Centre March 17, 2016 www.wwt-smartnetworks.net The conference will provide the opportunity to keep up-to-date with smart innovation successes, gain insight into the business benefits of thinking smart, and explore the potential for novel data solutions in both drinking water and wastewater. Utility Week Live NEC, Birmingham May 17-18, 2016 www.utilityweeklive.co.uk Utility Week Live is the UK's 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 utilities industry. Top TWEETS: #DroughT 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 on the subject of #drought. Interesting fact: In a normal rainfall year, 40% of #CAwater demand is met by groundwater. In a #drought year, it's 60%. @LPAWater After 38 days of only 0.01" of precipitation, last night we received 0.62". #Drought @mattgourlaycgcs #Rain is falling in #drought stricken regions of Queensland. If ever folk needed a break those guys do. May they prosper. Cheers @Everaldatlarge See all that dirt? It use to be water. Thank you Sacramento for the water "storage" crisis. You idiots! #drought @chuckharold To our #RetroRooLongreach guests. Last night #Longreach received between10-20ml. Not #drought breaking rain but lovely. We hope we see more! @qfom @CeliaPienkosz Send the rain here :) #drought And maybe the candy too lol @JADaysFan Water Wasters: My neighbor parks his truck on his lawn and spends 30 minutes washing it. @sdcwa #drought @Watchdogsniffer So #Texas goes from #drought to #flashfloods in nano seconds... add #lightening ~ #sumsitup #nofoolingaround @thejenwilkinson Just another way of #gamification: Los Angeles considers officially 'drought shaming' #water violators #drought #LA @H2ODraganSavic Last month's best answers Costain tries out their new indestructible site camera. "Almost there Bob. Smile!" Jon Read, proposals engineer, ACWA Services "Surely the hole should be at the top?" Phil, Natural Cement "Square peg, round hole!" Eamonn Mullins, financial director, Hydraulic Analysis 'You're not supposed to bury washing machines!" Paul King, Haydn Evans Consulting FORESIGHT PRESENTATION INCLUDES: What is Polyethylene Evolution of PE Pipes Why Polyethylene (PE) is important Characteristics of PE Pipe Benefits of PE Pipe Standards & Approvals BOOK YOURS TODAY! Please contact the GPS team to find out more Tel: 01480 442 600 Email: enquiries@gpsuk.com WWW.GPSUK.COM AN INTRODUCTION TO PE PIPES CPD PRESENTATION