Dr Pritam Das has won the EPSRC IAA innovation competition of £2500. He will be using this amount to prototype a visible light guided self-cleaning device under lab scale Sun light simulator. More information about the EPSRC IAA competition
We are pleased to publish the second annual report for the EPSRC Programme Grant in Decentralised Water Technologies. Please click on this link to access the PDF: EPSRC Decentralised Water Technologies – Annual Report 2023 – Year 2
The “Herald” published an article by Prof William Sloan on: Why the right to water is an issue for us today under their ‘Agenda’ section. You can read the article here
On 8th November 2023, Dr Jill Robbie gave the Arthur T. Kornblut Memorial Lecture to the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, based in Troy, New York. RPI is America’s oldest technological research university. Dr Robbie shared her perspective on de-centralised water technologies and the importance of the governance of these technologies for the …
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 …
Earlier this month, Dr Elizabeth Lawson curated the first ever session on ‘Water and Wastewater’ at the 2023 Scottish Rural and Islands Parliament in Fort William. The session was well attended, with participants keen to engage on discussions around how to improve the management of existing decentralised technologies in rural Scotland (private water supplies and …