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The water sector is moving towards an outcome-focused approach to the way it plans and invests in environmental solutions. That is the view of Phil Higgins, Jacobs head of water, UK & Ireland, who took part in the latest Talking on Water thought-leadership conversation with British Water chief executive Lila Thompson.

The rise of citizen science is placing increasing pressure on water companies to improve their environmental performance and protect river and bathing water quality. The water sector must get better at communicating the challenges of tackling pollution and why there is an urgent need for better collaboration between utilities, government bodies, regulators and customers.

Bison Gear & Engineering has introduced a platform of motors called VFsync that can help optimize performance and minimize overall costs.

Air lubrication for marine vessels is a developing solution that will radically reduce fuel consumption and environmental impact. Having acquired a minority stake in Marine Performance Systems B.V., a Rotterdam-based maritime technology company, Alfa Laval will be instrumental in making this long-sought technology a commercial reality.

Drives market revenues fell by 5-10 percent in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the first half of 2020 saw steep declines in sales, many suppliers were able to offset those losses with a strong performance in the second half of the year. Now, as economies reopen, the aftereffects of COVID-19 are becoming glaringly apparent.

Pep Guardiola, along with his brother Pere, both representing their newly-established Guardiola Sala Foundation, have teamed up with global nonprofit, EarthEcho International and global water technology company, Xylem Inc., to encourage students to realize a more sustainable future for Spain’s water resources.

The geared motors and heavy-duty industrial gears market was valued at $10.6bn in 2019. Following a -7 percent contraction in 2020, growth will quickly resume and a 2020-24 CAGR of 2.1 percent will see the market hit $13bn by 2024.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) announces its Circulator Energy Rating Program as a key resource in making energy efficient circulators inclusive of controls easier to identify and adopt in the marketplace. The program provides a label and database of efficient circulators that electric utilities and energy efficiency programs can reference.

Market intelligence company Interact Analysis has just published the latest quarterly update of its Manufacturing Industry Output Tracker (MIO). The report announces the inclusion of data from three key new regions – Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam; and predicts a slower-than-previously-expected global recovery from the pandemic.

A dosing pump is mainly used to give required fluids or chemicals in either gas, water, or steam flow. These pumps are exclusively fabricated to impel specific flow rates of certain chemicals into processing units, vessels, or fluid cricks.