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Valve selection guides, installation notes and industry news for European water infrastructure professionals.
The EU Leakage Reporting Deadline: What Water Utilities Need to Do Now
Statutory leakage reporting obligations under the EU Drinking Water Directive recast are already in effect. With national assessments due in January 2026 and enforceable thresholds arriving in 2028, pressure management has moved from best practice to compliance requirement.
The EU Water Resilience Strategy: What It Signals for Infrastructure Investment
The European Commission adopted its Water Resilience Strategy in June 2025, backed by €15 billion in EIB financing. For water utilities and their contractors across Europe, it marks a shift from voluntary efficiency targets to a funded, structured programme of infrastructure renewal.
Water Hammer: Causes, Consequences and How to Prevent It
No pipeline failure arrives more suddenly than a pressure surge. Understanding the mechanics behind water hammer is the first step to designing it out of your system.
Sizing Level Control Valves for Reservoir Applications
Pressure and flow are the two main causes of premature failure in reservoir level control valves. Getting the sizing right from the start avoids costly replacements and protects the wider network.
RSV Gate Valves vs Wedge Gate Valves: Why Resilient Seating Became the Standard
European water utilities have almost universally moved to resilient seated gate valves for buried distribution networks. Understanding why reveals as much about how the older wedge design fails as about what the RSV does better.
Ratio PRVs as an Alternative to Break-Pressure Tanks
Break-pressure tanks have long been considered the only reliable way to create a full pressure break in a gravity-fed pipeline. Ratio pressure reducing valves offer a compact, low-maintenance alternative worth serious consideration.
Generating Power from Pipeline Flow: Hydraulic Generators for Remote Installations
Every pressurised pipeline carries kinetic energy that is simply dissipated at pressure reducing valves and control fittings. Small in-line hydraulic generators can recover enough of that energy to power telemetry, sensors and SCADA equipment at remote locations.