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IMPRESSIVE: Salamander's Hydraclam device
IMPRESSIVE: Salamander's Hydraclam device

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MPs back water gadget

James Ferguson
2/12/2008

A MANCHESTER firm has been invited to showcase its new generation of water monitoring technology at an All Party Parliamentary Water Group conference at Westminster.

Tech firm Salamander presented its Hydraclam device to the meeting - entitled Leading Through Innovation: The Way Forward for the UK Water Sector - which impressed members of the House of Lords and MPs.

The Hydraclam can be attached to underground water systems via hydrants, providing continuous monitoring of water quality across the distribution network.

Managing director Dr Stephen Boult said the Hydraclam has the potential to revolutionise the way the UK's entire water distribution network is managed, by continuously feeding vital data from within the water system back to a control centre.

Sporadic

Previously, water companies could only monitor the network on a sporadic basis with an engineer having to physically go to a site, tap into the underground water system and take a sample for analysis.

Dr Boult said: "Water companies have been doing all they can to ensure water is top quality but until now the technology has simply not been available to provide ongoing monitoring at the source.

"Now, for the first time, water companies will have access to a new generation of technology which will allow them to continuously and safely monitor water quality - without the need for site visits."

Dr Boult hopes the Hydraclam will help drive legislative change by providing key political figures with best practice guidelines for proactive network management.

He explained: "The Hydraclam can monitor the turbidity, electrical conductivity, pressure and temperature of water 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"It means the water system is being proactively rather than reactively managed and, overall, the result is better water quality as well as improved performance levels and financial benefits for water companies."

The Hydraclam has already been picked up by nearly all major UK water service providers as an investigative tool, United Utilities is installing Hydraclams network wide across the north west and a deal has been struck with Bristol Water.


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   Lets hope that United Utilities do a better job than they did of a meter reading over the last few weeks on a meter we dont use? they sent a reader out to read the meter then followed over the next few days inspectors to inspect the meter reader and then a inspector to inspect the "Inspector"???? Then send a engineer out the following day to find a leak that was fixed six months earlier only to tell us that there was still a leak that they should have fixed six months earlier??the utilities havnt a clue what they are doing and take that from somebody who had a electric bill for my address the very same day that i moved into my brand new "Built less than a few weeks old" house that the utilities said that i owed money on for over a year???madness even up to a few months ago they said that the meter was 10 years old the house is only three years old..the utilities have not a clue.
Ace Shakespeare , manchester
2/12/2008 at 14:39

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