Jacobs announced the appointment of Susan Moisio as Global Vice President and Water Market Director in the company’s People and Places Solutions (P&PS) line of business replacing Peter Nicol, who retired after a 40-year career with Jacobs

CDP assessed GEA’s efforts in the “water” category for the first time, awarding it an excellent “A” score; GEA also maintained last year’s “A-” rating in the climate benchmark.

British Water chief executive Lila Thompson says a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed between India and the UK’s leading water sector trade association will “bring a great boost” to trading relationships between the two countries. Thompson’s comments came at the India-UK Water Partnership Forum, a virtual event which took place on 22 September 2020.

Marine engineers and crew members can now train and learn about DESMI Ocean Guard’s CompactClean ballast water management system with two digital offline tools. One is a computer-based training (CBT) program and the other is a mobile app.

Opened in 2016, EDF Energy’s combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant at Bouchain in Northern France has already earned a place in the record books.

In Brazil, the government has been looking to bring relief to a semi-arid area in the northeast of the country that is home to 12 million people. Sulzer designed and manufactured six of the largest pumps in the project, to transfer water from the São Francisco River to the drought-affected area.

British Water has announced the appointment of three non-executive board members who will take up their posts with the trade association in July.

The water industry needs to pull together with other sectors to meet the challenge of climate change, Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd told a gathering of over 200 water industry professionals at a British Water networking reception.

Leaving large pieces of rotating equipment dormant for long periods of time is routine when you work in an industry with a high level of mechanical redundancy. If they are not preserved correctly, then getting them back into service quickly can be a challenge.

Pablo Garcia, Global Business Development Manager at Sulzer, looks at the range of pumps needed throughout a tunneling project and the support structure needed to keep them operational.