Bathroom hygiene is a sensitive subject at any time but especially so during a pandemic. With the spread of the corona virus throughout the world, the focus has shifted so much towards bathroom cleanliness that the hygienic qualities of sanitation products are now a topic of great importance not only for consumers wanting to modernise their homes but also for architects and project planners working on public buildings.

Intelligent sanitation fittings are setting new standards thanks to digitalisation.

Against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s leading trade fair for water, heating and air-conditioning will bring the sanitation and HVAC sector together online from 22 to 26 March 2021.

Sulzer AG has signed a binding agreement to acquire Nordic Water for a purchase price of SEK 1.2bn (CHF 128m).

Increasing the volume of water available to an irrigation channel in Northeast Spain has benefitted local agriculture, especially during the dry summer season.

EBARA CORPORATION has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Çiğli Su Teknolojileri A.Ş., the parent company of Vansan Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., a Turkish pump manufacturer, and Vansan Makina Montaj ve Pazarlama A.Ş. (Vansan), with current shareholders.

In September 2020, Voith successfully completed the modernization of digital governors for two units of the Kinda hydropower plant owned by Electricity Power Generation Enterprise (EPGE), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy of Myanmar.

Danish water utility Ringkøbing-Skjern Forsyning A/S has selected Sulzer as the primary pump supplier for a major flood defense project. Two new pumping stations are being constructed to mitigate the impact of rising water levels in the Ringkøbing Fjord over the next 40 years and beyond.

The cryptography working group within the IETF standards organization (Internet Engineering Task Force) has chosen the Endress+Hauser-developed CPace protocol as a recommended method for use in internet standards.

In this way the sponsors of the leading international trade fair for water, heating and air-conditioning are responding to the latest trend in Covid‑19 infection rates and the concomitant tightening of travel restrictions.