Articles by DWT Team

Glasgow Science Festival 2025

In June 2025, Dr. Baptiste Poursat organised a water treatment activity at the Glasgow Science Festival 2025, with help from Madelyn Murphy, Sophie Singer, Dr. Fabien Cholet, Dr. Justin Sperling, and Dr. Tania Gomez Borraz. Over two days at the Kibble Palace in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, they ran activities related to drinking water treatment

Decentralised Water Technologies – Annual Report 2024 – Year 3

We are delighted to share with you our Annual Report for Year 3 of the EPSRC Programme Grant in Decentralised Water Technologies.  Please view the report by clicking on this link. We hope you enjoy reading about our progress to date and welcome any questions that you may have. Please contact: Principal Investigator / William

New publication – Microbial Stratification and DOM Removal in Drinking Water Biofilters: Implications for Enhanced Performance

We are thrilled to share our latest paper published in Water Research! In this study, we examined the transformation of DOM fractions by microbial communities at different depths of a biofilter. Our findings revealed that bottom communities are better suited to utilizing more complex organic carbon fractions, likely due to their adaptation. This opens up

WDSA-CCWI 2024 (3rd International Join Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA) & Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI))

Members of the research team, Prof Bill Sloan, Prof Cindy Smith, Dr  Siming You and Dinesh Bhandari attended the 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA) and Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI). The conference was held at the University of Ferrara, Italy, with the theme of exchanging research, developments,

Dr. Elizabeth Lawson awarded Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship Award (SPICe)

Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Lawson who has been awarded a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellowship, managed and hosted by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). The aim of the scheme is to: provide the Scottish Parliament with specialised resources, allowing it to undertake and communicate analysis which would otherwise not be possible increase use of academic

Improving the Sustainability of Septic Tanks: An off-campus experiment

As part of the EPSRC programme grant and in collaboration with Scottish Water Horizons, we are conducting a septic tanks’ experiment at a Scottish Water treatment facility in Fife. The aim of the experiment is to study and understand the emissions produced by septic tanks and the subsequent environmental impact.  This experiment is the first