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In this article, Europump President, Luboš Michlík, highlights the vital role of pumps in powering the drive for a sustainable future.

As winter approaches, ensuring essential infrastructure is properly maintained is critical for public sector organisations. The early predictions for winter 2024/2025 suggest it will be one of the most challenging in recent years, with cold temperatures, increased snowfall, and wet, stormy conditions expected.

With the winter season, safeguarding the performance and longevity of vacuum pumps becomes a top priority. Cold weather poses unique challenges that can affect the reliability and efficiency of these crucial industrial components.

The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) is calling on businesses across the UK’s industrial sector to prioritise energy audits as a key strategy for improving operational efficiency, cutting costs, and reducing environmental impact. With energy prices continuing to fluctuate and sustainability becoming increasingly central to business operations, understanding how and where energy is consumed has never been more important.

PFAS treatment is a growing area of concern for water utilities, businesses and communities, particularly as governments pass stricter regulations. Research increasingly shows the harmful effects of PFAS on humans and ecosystems. Discover how PFAS treatment technologies can provide safer drinking water and limit the amount of PFAS in the environment.

Investors include Microsoft, through their Climate Innovation Fund, as anchor investor, Starbucks, and Xylem as strategic investors, alongside Ecolab, Reckitt, Gap Inc., and others, with the goal of reaching 15 million people globally with access to safe water and sanitation

Enhanced wastewater treatment holds the key to reducing sewage overflows to the environment in a sustainable way, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services.

Water shortages are already the cause of numerous conflicts around the world. As a result, it is not only the economical use of this vital resource that is coming more into focus. Companies are working flat out on new technologies that improve water purification. In this way, even industrial water can be turned back into safe and clean drinking water.

As population grows and economies expand, they are putting an immense strain on the world’s water supplies. According to the UN World Water Development Report 2024, 2.2 billion people worldwide have no access to clean drinking water.

Sewage pollution in surface waters in the UK and Ireland is one of the most high-profile environmental issues in the country. Water industry research organisation UKWIR is leading a raft of innovative sewerage projects designed to transform the way water companies manage this issue in the coming five-year Asset Management Plan period for England and Wales – AMP8, which starts on 1 April 2025.