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For its third year in a row, Southern Water has been deemed the UK’s worst performing company in the nation. Despite having a 13% reduction in complaints, many UK citizens have still complained about the company’s services. Southern Water recently spent £13 million to upgrade its billing system that will allow customers to conveniently pay […]
Welsh Water has hired contractors to replace old steel and iron pipes with new plastic ones in Hawarden and other areas starting this week. The purpose behind the change is to reduce the levels of iron found in the tap water in the area. The work will interfere with many roads, but should be completed […]
While there are chemicals and minerals that are filtered out of drinking water, there are some additives that could be beneficial to your health. Some parts of the UK and the United States have added small amounts of fluoride to water to help prevent tooth decay. Some parts of the world have added activated charcoal […]
David Sullivan, the co-chairman of West Ham United, is selling his stake in Kent’s largest reservoir to the leisure division of Markerstudy Group. This sale comes after the Bewl Valley Sailing Club failed to pay a £160,000/year bill to run its premises. Markerstudy intends on working with the clubs and residents to ensure Bewl Water […]
Water treatment specialist, Lubron UK, plans to expand its specialist provision to serve the rising demand from the building services sector. The hope is to become the top company in the realm of providing reverse-osmosis, water filtration, de-ionization, and water softening to building services throughout the United Kingdom. For more details on this story, click […]
HORIBA, Japan’s leading manufacturer of portable pH meters, released its new D-70 LAQUAct series, a great portable tool that can help measure water quality in the field or in the laboratory. The device uses single and dual channel meters to measure water’s pH, ORP, ion, conductivity, resistivity, salinity, TDS, dissolved oxygen, and temperature simultaneously. This […]
Dr. Teri Dankovich at Carnegie Mellon University has written a book that not only talks about the importance of clean water, but its very pages can filter and clean murky water. Copies of this wonder book have been given to families in South Africa, Ghana, and Bangladesh to filter water of contaminants and kill 99% […]
Farmers in the UK need clean water to ensure so that not only their crops get a healthy spurt of growth, but that the water doesn’t contaminate the soil with chemicals and heavy metals. This water can also effect nearby streams via runoff, so any contaminated runoff water can poison natural water resources that are […]
The 4-plus year drought and water shortage in California is due to primarily to climate change and urbanization, which means that it could happen to any metropolis, including ones in the United Kingdom. In order to prevent a struggle like California’s, attention must be paid in how communities use their water along with monitoring greenhouse […]
Trace amounts of arsenic found in some tap water could add up to problems later on. Certain parts of the United States, Canada, and UK have traces of arsenic within their tap water. According to the World Health Organization, drinking arsenic-rich water over a long period of time can lead to skin problems and possible […]
