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28 WET NEWS DECEMBER 2016 ComiNg SooN • Write a caption Ecology consultancy Thomson Ecology has been working with Network Rail and BAM Nuttall on "fish rescue" projects undertaken as part of ongoing flood alleviation work in the UK. The work involves safely moving fish to a new location if their habitat is likely to be affected by building and development work. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@fav-house. com by December 12, 2016. The best captions will be published in the January 2017 issue of WET News. foresight WIAA 2017 May 23, 2017: The Vox, Birmingham wwtonline.co.uk/awards The Water Industry Achievement Awards, organised by WET News and WWT, will take place on May 23, 2017 at The Vox, Birmingham. The awards are the industry's leading awards ceremony, rewarding and celebrating innovation and best practice in the market today. Utility Week Live May 23-24, 2017: NEC, Birmingham 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. WWT Wastewater 2017 Conference and Exhibition January 31, 2017: NEC, Birmingham events.wwtonline.co.uk/wastewater/ The only event with all WASCs represented, Wastewater 2017 is a comprehensive single-day showcase of wastewater-specific case studies, innovation and thought-leadership all under one roof. WWT Northern Ireland Conference 2017 February 23, 2017: Ramada Plaza, Belfast events.wwtonline.co.uk/ni Now in its 8th year, the WWT Water Northern Ireland Conference & Exhibition is only event that brings all the major stakeholders together to address the economic, environmental and customer service challenges facing the Northern Ireland water sector. Last month's best answers And so the holy bucket, they said, could turn water into silt! Stuart.argyle@hspconsulting.com Following a recent dispute, the driver took the phrase "digging a hole for yourself" too literally! jmaereka@lintottcs.co.uk "We're gonna need a bigger digger!" phil@jnoah.co.uk Top TWEETS: #Water Facts On average, there are 500 million tweets daily on Twitter. What has the global Twittersphere been tweeting on the subject of #Water Facts. Our fingers get wrinkly in water because wrinkled fingers would give us stronger grip on slippery objects underwater. @WhatTheFFacts Drinking more water than you're sweating out can lead to hypo- natremia – low sodium levels in your blood that cause brain swelling. @UberFacts Getting water policy right will not only encourage everyday conservation; it will also stimulate innovation @TheEconomist An important and least known fact about US #water use. It stopped rising thirty years ago as efficiency & technology improved. @PeterGleick NASA used Tang to mask the unpleasant flavor of space capsule water during John Glenn's 1962 space mission. @UberFacts Universal but unaddressed reality: The dry facts-Water is scarce because it is badly managed @DeborahLCurran #FACTS 1 Billion pounds pasta would need approx 2,021,452,000 gallons water 2cook it This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-size pools BejahFACTS Hockey players are the only athletes that can walk/skate on water, so I'll just leave this here. #Facts @Quinten_Cox23 Power plant • Oil free screw compressors • Oil free tri-lobe blowers • Ultra-silent operation • ISO 8573-1 Class 0 certification • Pressure up to 2.500 mbar • Capacity up to 10.500 m 3 /h Optimal characteristics for all waste water treatment plant requirements ROBOX compact units Contact: blowers.red@gardnerdenver.com 01527 838200 www.gd-industrials.com