Scottish Water

After less than a year in his job, a Scottish Water apprentice has clinched both Scottish and UK top awards for his innovative work and presentation on using the natural flow of water to generate electricity.

One of the most important waste water facilities in Scotland has undergone a technological transformation 120 years after it was built at the end of the Victorian era.

Sniffer dogs being used to help find leaking water mains in Scotland have scored some big successes with the discovery of 21 suspected leaks in the Borders and East Lothian recently. Scottish Water has been deploying a team of specially trained dogs to help locate leaks in pipes in rural areas where

Scottish Water has turned to ultra high-pressure robotics in a UK-first to remove decades of industrial deposits blocking a strategic sewer in South Lanarkshire.

Scottish Water’s £2.5 million project to tackle frequent flooding on the A8 trunk road through Inverclyde has been completed. East Hamilton Street in Greenock – which runs parallel to the River Clyde past the James Watt Dock - has been prone to localised floods for many years.

Scottish Water has broken ground on a pioneering new type of hydro energy generation scheme at Whiteadder Reservoir in East Lothian as part of its work to reduce carbon emissions.

Heriot-Watt University Chemical and Energy Engineering Graduate, Steven Brasher from Dalgety Bay, celebrated the delivery of his first large-scale solar project at Denny Waste Water Treatment Works. More than £660,000 was invested by Scottish Water to install over 830 solar panels at the works

The last project in a programme of wastewater infrastructure works across Scotland has successfully completed an urban flood prevention scheme that will protect central Lanark and properties in the area from flooding.

Scottish Water’s latest solar power scheme is helping to protect the coastal community of Oban from the effects of climate change. The installation of 556 roof-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels at Tullich Water Treatment Works (WTW) on the outskirts of the town is now complete.

A water treatment facility in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire has recently joined a long list of Scottish Water sites powered by green energy in a bid to tackle climate change.

The next phase of Scottish Water’s multi-million-pound investment project at Milngavie Reservoirs in East Dunbartonshire gets underway on Monday 14 August and will focus on upgrading the paths around the historic beauty spot.

Scottish Water is investing £1 million into a second major project to help prevent sewer flooding in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire.

A planned major upgrade at Glenfarg Water Treatment Works (WTW) has taken a step forward with the submission of a planning application to Perth and Kinross Council.

Innovative materials, methods and equipment have been at the centre of a multi-million-pound project by Scottish Water to tackle sewer flooding in Giffnock, Glasgow.

Scottish Water has taken another step in reducing its carbon emissions through a £700,000 investment to triple the solar energy production at Kirkcaldy Waste Water Treatment Works in Fife.