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20 WET NEWS APRIL 2017 ComiNg SooN • Write a caption Farrans Construction operations director Kevin Corley and NI Water chief executive Sara Venning celebrate the "one million metres" milestone of water mains on NI Water's ongoing Water Mains Improvement Programme, which will improve the quality, reliability and security of the water supply throughout Northern Ireland. Farrans has laid the one million metres over the past seven years – enough pipe to stretch from Dunmurry to Dusseldorf. Write a caption and email it to yoursayWN@ fav-house.com by April 13, 2017. The best captions will be published in the May 2017 issue of WET News. foresight WIAA 2017 The Vox, Birmingham May 23, 2017 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 market today. Utility Week Live NEC, Birmingham May 23-24, 2017 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. WWT Water Industry Asset Management Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, May 10, 2017 events.wwtonline.co.uk/asset The 5th annual Water Industry Asset Management Conference will address how outcome-based regulation in AMP6, and the incentives and penalties that come with it, impact on water companies' asset management practices. Utility Week Procurement & Supply Chain Engagement Conference Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, May 11, 2017 Events.utilityweek.co.uk/procurement The conference looks to prepare procurement professionals for the regulators' direction of travel, and share best practice on how to balance cost, risk and the need to innovate to meet challenges in a sustainable way. Last month's best answers "It's a long stand, mate. Any chance of a tea with two sugars?" Trevor.Walkinshaw@ScottishWater.co.uk "Where is the label to tell me either to push or pull?" Phil@NaturalCement.co.uk Top TWEETS: #Watersavingweek On average, there are 500 million tweets every day on Twitter. We've sifted through a few to see what Twitter- sphere has been tweeting about #watersavingweek. Keep a jug by the tap to fill whilst you're waiting for hot #water, once cool, use this to water your plants #toptip #watersavingweek @SteffWSS Two-thirds (66%) of adults told us they had made a conscious decision to use less water in the past 3 years - have you? #watersavingweek @WaterWatchdog Using a bowl to wash up rather than leaving the hot tap running could save around £30 a year on a household's energy bill! #watersavingweek @HESSouthWest @Waterwise #watersavingweek in the workplace #fact DID YOU KNOW On average every worker uses 50 litres of water a day while at work @WH_EnergyWise Huge amounts of water are used to cool data centres. Paradoxically, can #bigdata reduce big water use? #watersavingweek #iot #smartcities @QuensusLtd Turn off your dripping taps And don't let that toilet leak, Take a 4 minute shower Cause it's #watersavingweek (and #WorldPoetryDay) @abiialdridge Loving the #water poetry everyone is posting for the #watersavingweek & #WorldPoetryDay serendipitous conjunction! @Waterwise #watersavingweek Choose a #tap with built in flow restriction which will reduce your water usage and save money on bills too @abodehome www.teekaycouplings.com tel: +44 (0)1494 679500 concrete steel clean water civils waste water FULL REFURBISHMENT SERVICES FOR RESERVOIR & WATER TOWERS, CLEAN & SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS, STEEL/CONCRETE TANKS & VESSELS, SPILLWAYS & AQUEDUCTS, BRIDGES, PIPEWORK, PIPE BRIDGES & OTHER ASSETS. FULL CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPABILITY INC NEW BUILD PROJECTS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR OUR FULL SCOPE OF SERVICES. Stonbury_Advert Wet News_March 2017_185x131.indd 1 07/03/2017 12:01