WWEM The Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring event is a virtual and in person event that focuses on Instrumentation and services for water and wastewater process monitoring. WWEM offers a technical program aimed at keeping you up to date with the latest trends, regulations, methods, techniques and technologies. Furthermore, you can also network with all industry stakeholders including suppliers, regulators and end-users from industry that need to test, monitor and analyse water and wastewater.
Process Monitoring, Micro Pollutants, Laboratory analysis, Smart Sensors, Current and Future regulation, MCerts, Microbiology, Gas detection, Field testing, Speciation, Portable instruments, Pollutant Screening, Operator Monitoring, Data acquisition, Odour monitoring and treatment, Big Data, River Monitoring, Biosensors, Water Epidemiology, Online monitoring, Flow/Level Measurement, PFAS, Contaminants of Concern, Leak Detection, Pumping solutions, Control and Instrumentation.
Recently, the Environmental Audit Committee released a damning report into the state of British waterways. Over 100 pages, the Committee outlines and evidences its conviction that the worrying levels of pollution in the nations rivers and streams are the result of multiple failures ... Read More
ASTM Internationals water committee D19 has approved a new standard that provides an easy and accurate culture method for detecting Legionella pneumophila, the primary bacteria responsible for Legionnaires disease. Legionnaires disease is a potentially lethal pneumonia ... Read More
Wastewater-based epidemiology, or WBE for short, is the practice of analysing sewage samples from a community to determine levels of certain chemicals, pathogens or other substances in the wastewater. It has been employed by nations around the globe for a number of decades, though its use in the ongoing ... Read More
The House of Commons is considering amendments to the hotly-debated Environment Bill, sections of which update provisions for the improvement and protection of Britains water-ways. In particular, public discourse has centred on the issue of untreated sewage being routinely discharged into rivers ... Read More
Pall Corporation announces that Mid Kent Water, United Kingdom, selects Pall Corporation for its Wichling Turbidity Removal Scheme. Mid Kent Water Treatment Works, key output for Mid Kent Water MKW, supplies up to 14 million liters of water per day to a population of around 26,500. ... Read More
Members of Baths Water Innovation amp; Research Centre WIRC say that release of the Environmental Audit Committee Report on Water Quality in Rivers should be a wake-up call to lawmakers, regulators, various industry sectors, and the public. Dr Tom Arnot, Co-Director of WIRC ... Read More
The majority of 4,000 odd pharmaceutical products on the market globally have not been assessed for their occurrence, environmental fate or environmental impacts. Studies around the world have found pharmaceuticals present in surface waters at concentrations of concern. This is perhaps not surprising as the... ... Read More
Using the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan, Trinity College Dublin researchers have studied long term phosphorus storage and release in environmental systems, information which can help guide water quality management. Phosphorus applied... ... Read More
The WHO said in 2019 that over 70% of the world’s population have access to clean water. Clean water is required by all and is a product that has a direct impact on the consumer. Many companies must meet targets and goals set by their country or industry body with water ... ... Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to getrncreative with disease management strategies, withrnsewage the latest wildcard to attract the attention ofrnBritish health experts. Currently being rolled out acrossrnEngland, the goal is to utilise wastewater as a tool forrnCovid-19 surveillance. Early in the pandemic scientists confirmed ... Read More
Even with business as usual, the challenges facing a wastewater treatment plant operator are considerable. In activated sludge plant treatments how do you you maintain the correct balance of microbes? ... Read More
Researchers from Utrecht University, Wageningen University & Research and the University of Amsterdam have analysed microplastics and rubbers in Dutch rivers the Dommel, the Maas and Dutch sewage treatment plants using FT-IR microscopy. They found 26 different plastics and rubbers. The majority of all ... Read More
A species of river bird is swallowing hundreds of plastic fibres every day via their insect prey, research by Cardiff University and the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter has shown. Dippers are also inadvertently feeding thousands of plastic fibres contained in ... Read More
A partnership which helps protect freshwater ecosystems by shaping Government policy has been recognised for its innovative approach to sustainable water management. A long-standing collaboration between Cardiff University, Welsh Government and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) has harnessed Cardiff’s research expertise ... Read More
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) recently begun its analysis work on the first samples of waste water (sewage) in a new trial aimed at helping monitor the spread of coronavirus in Scotland. With the backing ... Read More
