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A "monster" fatberg has been cleared from a West Sussex sewer. Southern Water says the 50kg (110lbs) blockage was found in a major sewer in Horsham. Teams used heavy jets and other equipment to ...
NEWPORT, Tenn. – An urgent dam break warning along Tennessee's Pigeon River is being canceled amid conflicting reports of the dam's status. Tennessee Emergency managers were telling everyone in ...
Southern Water has said that businesses and community groups in the Hastings and St Leonards area are receiving a share of a £1m goodwill fund following the weather-related flooding and loss of ...
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
In 1989 the ten publicly owned water and sewerage authorities were privatised. This was achieved by transferring the water supply and sewerage assets, and the relevant staff, of the Southern Water Authority into the limited company Southern Water Services Ltd. Privatisation was accompanied by the raising of capital by floating parent companies on the London Stock Exchange, a one-off injection ...
Sewage discharge. The UK has a combined sewage system, meaning rainwater and wastewater are discharged through the same pipes. During heavy rainfall, this system's capacity can be exceeded, leading to water companies discharging sewage into rivers and lakes. [1][2] Some water companies also have been suspected of illegally discharging on dry ...
Starting Wednesday, September 4, at 8 p.m., the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission will implement an essential-water-use-only request for portions of southern Prince George’s County.
The South–North Water Transfer Project, also translated as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, [1] is a multi-decade infrastructure mega-project in China that aims to channel 44.8 cubic kilometers (44.8 billion cubic meters) of fresh water each year [2] from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems: [3]