2011 News Archive

  • Scottish Water Convicted of Drinking Water Offence

    Wed 18 Jan 2012

    Scottish Water has been found guilty of supplying water unfit for human consumption to consumers in the Moray village of Tomintoul in October 2009.

  • New Regulator appointed

    Tue 04 Oct 2011

    Sue Petch has been appointed as the new DWQR and starts work on the 4th October. Sue is a chemist by profession has worked for Northumbrian Water for 18 years in a number of different roles including Asset Strategy Manager Water for three years and Water Quality Manager for 7 years.

  • DWQR Completes Investigation into Burncrooks Incident

    Wed 21 Sep 2011

    DWQR has investigated the above incident when elevated concentrations of aluminium entered the water supply in parts of North West Glasgow on 17-19 March 2011. Nearly 12,000 consumers were unable to use their tap water for drinking or cooking. The full report into the incident is published today.

  • Scotland's Water the Best Ever

    Thu 25 Aug 2011

    The DWQR has published Drinking Water Quality in Scotland 2010, a report on the quality of Scotland's public and private water supplies during the year.

  • Scotland to Host International Conference

    Mon 28 Mar 2011

    Scotland is proud to be hosting an international conference on drinking water microbiology. FIPS 2011 will take place in June at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and will be of interest to professionals involved in the water industry.

  • DWQR Tackles Risk From Private Water Supplies

    Thu 03 Feb 2011

    Private water supplies provide drinking water to approximately 3% of Scotland’s population plus the many thousands who may encounter them occasionally, but unfortunately the quality of these supplies continues to be of concern. DWQR continues to support local authorities in their efforts to deliver real and lasting quality improvements to these supplies across Scotland.

  • DWQR issues further enforcement notice at Loch Eck

    Tue 01 Feb 2011

    DWQR has issued a second enforcement notice in respect of manganese at Loch Eck water treatment works, the supply that serves Dunoon and much of Cowal. This enforcement notice follows on from an earlier notice requiring design of a manganese removal process at the treatment works and will ensure construction is completed by March 2012.