Discover how rural and island communities across Scotland are grappling with a growing housing emergency and why water infrastructure is an often overlooked but essential part of the solution. This thought‑provoking blog explores the challenges facing these communities, the barriers to building new homes, and the urgent need to rethink how water systems support sustainable …
From 8-12 December 2025, the city of Bangkok, Thailand, hosted the IWA Water and Development Congress, welcoming over 2,000 delegates from 95 countries. The congress brought together a broad and diverse audience, including academic researchers, water utilities, industry representatives, technology developers, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, and policymakers, alongside a large exhibition showcasing innovations in water …
Overview: Dr Uzma Uzma delivered an oral presentation of her research paper, “Neural network-driven nonlinear analysis of beta diversity in microbial communities with DeepBeta,” at the 12 th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE 2025). In addition to the live presentation, this work underwent a rigorous peer-review process and was formally accepted for …
Elizabeth Lawson and Jaime Amezaga facilitated a workshop on water and wastewater at the 6th European Rural Parliament, which took place in Inverurie, Scotland from the 21st-23rd October 2025. The workshop was attended by a number of community groups, public sector and industry representatives from across Scotland and wider Europe. Community insight into the current …
A team led by Prof. Alasdair Clark and Prof. Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay has turned a promising lab invention into a rugged, portable chemical-fingerprinting tool that’s now being put to work with the Faroe Islands Water Authority and at Scottish Water treatment sites. In Tórshavn, our system has already been used by the national testing laboratory to fingerprint diverse real-world samples—from reservoirs and rivers to aquaculture …
Dr. Baptiste Poursat has recently launched a field sampling campaign to uncover the volatile organic compound (VOC) fingerprints of septic systems. This work combines a three months on-site sampling campaign with new advanced analytical methods, including thermal desorption and non-targeted GC–MS analysis, to characterise the wide range of chemicals present in real-world septic environments. The …