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2 WET NEWS JULY 2016 COMMENT "There may be consolidation but consultants have got the cash to splash" JULY £31K The organisers of music festival Glastonbury Festival have been ordered to pay £31,000 in nes and costs for pollution o- ences involving human sewage. "Water is at the heart of dynamic global issues including climate change and urbanisation, which makes developing the role of British Water more important than ever for the water and environment sector" Pennon boss Chris Loughlin, appointed deputy chairman at British Water. Thames Water has an- nounced it made an increased operating pro t of £742.2M in 2015-16. The company said the number of pollution incidents during the year were had been reduced by 49%, and it had met its leakage reduction target for the tenth consecu- tive year. It also installed more than 42,000 smart meters, and established the Technology and Transforma- tion Alliance. 49% 42K £80M UU has outlined its £80M plans to decommission the Royston sewage works and upgrade the Oldham treatment works at Chadderton. A new sewer pipeline is also planned between the two sites. £300K How much Man Utd's Wayne Rooney reportedly earns a week. "We keep hearing they're coming but nobody's put one in front of me and said 'this will work'." Steve Slavin, head of renewable energy and programme delivery at United Utilities, agrees solar power in conjunction with battery storage has great potential. But he said he was yet to see technology that meets all the requirements. "I am coming close to the end of my time running Bristol Water. It has been an amazing seven years and I am proud to have been part of what we have achieved" Bristol Water's outgoing chief executive Luis Garcia £28M The value of wastewater and stormwater equipment supplier Hydro International, which is set to be taken over by private equity rm. Hydro's board has an reached agreement with Hanover Bidco. Industry collaboration is vital to cope with Brexit W e all know the contin- uing engineering skills shortage is a se- rious issue that needs to be tackled (no pun intended) as soon as possible. And now it seems the skills shortage could lead to workers in the water, gas and electricity sectors demanding Premier League-level salaries in the future. That's the prediction of Develop Training chief executive o‚ cer Chris Wood, who says: "The chronic skills shortage in the utilities, energy and construction industries means companies are … shing from the same small pool of talent, which is inevitably pushing up salaries." (See page 4) Wood predicts unsustain- able levels of wage inˆ ation as those few who do have the skills and experience become more and more valuable. He may or may not be right. But if he is, then I'm sure our engineers will do a sterling (again, no pun intended) job – unlike the Premier League footballers who made up the woefully lacking England team at last month's Euros! A brace of acquisitions in consulting Acquisitions are making the headlines again with two notable takeovers announced – Turners & Townsend is buying lean management consultancy Suiko, and WSP Parsons Brinckerho" is adding the Schlumberger industrial water consultancy to its portfolio. The addition of the Schlumberger industrial water consultancy will enable WSP to provide water consulting services and project solutions to industrial clients worldwide, and will establish a presence for WSP in Chile and Peru. For Turner & Townsend, the integration of Suiko's cross- industry experts will position the company as the … rst independent construction consultancy to o" er lean expertise at all stages of capital project delivery and operations. It would seem that the world of consultancy is undergoing a period of consolidation if these two acquisitions are anything to go by, and coming so quickly a– er international engineering and consultancy … rm Stantec completed is takeover of MWH Global. This latter deal has created a combined company with a leading position in water resources infrastructure Canadian giant Stantec employs 22,000 people in 400 locations across the world, while MWH is a 6,800-person engineering, consulting and construction management … rm. There may be consolidation but consultants have de… nitely got the cash to splash, it seems. www.z-tech.co.uk 01223 653500 engineers@z-tech.co.uk Complete one-stop in-house solutions from dig to data: • Flowmeters • PRV's & Needle Valves • Burst Detection • Pumping Sets & Stations • Pressure & Level Monitoring Complete one-stop in-house Problem Solvers 24/7 EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICE Dutch Waterboard opens Europe's rst commercial nutrient recovery site Amersfoort wastewater treatment plant becomes has been transformed and is the rst in Europe to produce a 'ready to use' fertiliser product. E urope's … rst commercial nutrient recovery facility has o‚ cially been opened by the Dutch Water- board Vallei & Veluwe, in part- nership with Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies and Eli- quo Water & Energy. The new facility proactively addresses national and European goals to promote a circular economy, and is part of the transforma- tion of the waterboard's Amers- foort wastewater treatment plant) into an Energy and Nutrient Recovery Factory. The new Energy and Nutri- ent Recovery Factory, sup- ported by the EU LIFE+ subsidy program, features Ostara's Pearl nutrient recovery and WASSTRIP technologies where phosphorous and nitrogen are recovered to create a high value fertiliser from an existing resource with a process that is both environmentally and eco- nomically viable. The facility was designed and constructed by Dutch com- pany Eliquo Water & Energy, and also features its LysoTherm system that allows for an e‚ - cient, cost-e" ective and relia- ble disintegration of waste acti- vated sludge (WAS). While seven sewage treatment plants have been converted into "energy and nutrient facilities" in the Netherlands, this is the … rst to produce a "ready to use" fertiliser product, sold as Crys- tal Green. The waterboard's principal Tanja Klip-Martin advocated for changes to national and European regulations to help stimulate the use of recovered products from waste streams to support the principles of a cir- cular economy, noting that the view on wastewater as a resource has changed funda- mentally and is now seen as a sustainable source of energy and nutrients. "The key di" er- ence with the Amersfoort facil- ity launched today is that a high value, ready-for-sale ferti- liser product is being pro- duced, ready for use on agri- cultural crops and in the turf and horticulture markets," said Klip-Martin. Amersfoort WwTP is designed to treat more than 8,000m 3 of water daily. It also acts as a regional sludge-pro- cessing hub for several WwTPs, and imports approximately 40% of sludge from other loca- tions. With approximately 12,000 tonnes of dry sludge being treated annually, the facility was facing high opera- tional costs for energy con- sumption and processing costs for sludge disposal. At the transformed Amersfoort WwTP, all indigenous sludge produced as well as the sludge produced at the Soest, Nijkerk and Woudenberg WwTPs will be centrally digested at the new facility. The digestion process is being enhanced with Eliquo's Thermal Pressure Hydrolysis (TPH) system, called Lyso- Therm, to increase the biogas and related energy production. As a result, the new facility will produce enough energy to treat all the wastewater from the City of Amersfoort on a 100% energy-autonomous basis, as well as an energy surplus, enough to provide 600 house- holds with green electricity during the year. Operations and resource recovery are further enhanced by removing phosphorous from the liquid wastewater stream using Ostara's Pearl technol- ogy. The Amersfoort WwTP fea- tures one Pearl 2K reactor with the capacity to remove 85% of the phosphorus and up to 15% of the nitrogen from liquid wastewater streams. Ostara's WASSTRIP technology has also been implemented which turbo-charges the nutrient recovery process and increases the amount of phosphorous recovered by more than 60% for added operational and rev- enue generating bene… ts.

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