The water/wastewater industry cluster for Ireland was established in May of 2015 with the facilitation and support of Enterprise Ireland (EI). Approximately 50 attendees were at the establishment meeting of the cluster and these represented SMEs involved in the sector, relevant researchers/third level institutions and other stakeholders, including Irish Water. Why establish a water/wastewater cluster? Ireland has good national capability in the water/wastewater area as a result ...

Author: Brian Booth, vice-president, Water Treatment Innovation Platform of global water, energy and maintenance solutions provider, NCH Europe. I've worked in the engineering industry for the last 35 years, starting out as a chemist in the water treatment sector in 1985 One of the biggest changes I've witnessed over the last three decades is the rise of legislation covering every aspect of the industry. It started with basic health and safety and now reaches into countless niche areas, ...

Author: Rob Mustard, general manager, Waste Water Strategic Services, Scottish Water Scottish Water has a large and diverse asset base with a total Modern Equivalent Asset Replacement Value (MEAV) which runs into billions of pounds. Two-thirds of the MEAV is linked to the replacement of Scottish Water’s 50,000km long sewer network with some dating back to the early 19th century and the majority dated to about the 1940s. The effective and efficient optimisation of capital maintenance and ...

  Authors: Daniel Coakley1,2,3, Niall Chambers1,2, Louise Hannon1, Marcus Keane1,2,3, Ed Curry4, Eoghan Clifford1,2,3 (1College of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway; 2IRUSE, NUI Galway; 3Ryan Institute, NUI Galway, 4INSIGHT, NUI Galway) Background Global energy and water demand is expected to rise 40 per cent over the next 20 years. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in water scarce regions and two-thirds subjected to water stress [1]. Globally, 25 to 30 per cent of drinking ...

  Author: Patrick Moran, executive area engineer, Tipperary County Council In September 2011 due to inadequate sludge processing and high sludge removal costs from wastewater plants I turned my focus to see how this could be addressed for plants in my functional engineering area. Previously, operation of sludge holding tanks on sites resulted in watery, low, dry, solid sludge being produced and insufficient holding processing of sludge in the plants, with a knock-on effect from the ...

  Author: Hugh McCarthy, MIEI CIHT, chartered engineer, is vice-chair of the Engineers Ireland GB Region. The GB Region of Engineers Ireland was recently invited on a tour of Abbey Mills Pumping Station in east London and was organised by Thames Water to both promote its work as part of ‘Sewer Week’ and also to illustrate the wonder of 19th century drainage infrastructure beneath London. [caption id="attachment_22298" align="alignright" width="300"] ...