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    Welcome to the August Edition of our Newsletter 

Summer is here, and with temperatures soaring, our thoughts often turn to a long cold refreshing drink of water. We are blessed in the UK that the public can take for granted that the water coming from our taps is safe to drink. This is thanks to the continuing commitment and vigilance of our water utilities and regulators.

WRc plays a key role in this and you will see in this Newsletter new projects for the Environment Agency on benefits of catchment management initiatives; for the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) on skin irritation and tap water; for UKWIR on removal of the pesticide metaldehyde; for United Utilities to develop an operator training tool; and finally for a group of water utilities to look at integrated risk management. 

There are also a number of new wastewater projects and we are proud to have become the first company in the UK to obtain UKAS approval for biodegradability testing for municipal and commercial waste.

  Latest News

• A UK first for WRc's Waste Testing Laboratory. 

• WRc's dynamic wastewater treatment software (STOAT) now available as freeware. available as freeware. 

• Portfolio project is helping to manage aeration plants to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions. 

• UKWIR commission WRc to investigate factors influencing the pesticide metaldehyde removal by water treatment. 

• Water Operator Training Tool for United Utilities.

• Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) awards contract to WRc to investigate possible links between skin irritation and tap water.

• WRc launches new Instrumentation Strategy.

• 300th Certificate issued by the WRc Approved Scheme. 

• New project launched to quantify the benefits of catchment management initiatives.

• Project kicks-off to help utilities with integrated management of risk in water distribution.

• Energy efficiency project funded by German Goverment on sewage works.

• Data Quality Initiative developed to aid effective business decisions.

The latest collection of Portfolio collaborative research proposals has just been launched. For the first time the catalogue has only been issued in electronic format and a copy can be downloaded from the following link:

www.waterportfolio.com/asp/latestcatalogue.asp

The 18 new research proposals cover a range of topical issues - including challenging the need to continue with District Metering Areas (DMAs). maximising energy recovery from anaerobic digestion, and benefiting from catchment management initiatives.

For information, please contact ian.walker@wrcplc.co.uk or checkout the Portfolio website.