YORKSHIRE Water has become the first water company to win a top engineering award.
Emma Hughes and Jonathan Piatka from Yorkshire Water’s flood strategy team joined forces with former employee Catherine Minor to win the Society of Public Health Engineers young engineer 2014 competition, run in conjunction with international charity WaterAid.
They had to find ways to make a typical waste water treatment system more resilient against floods for a small town in Bangladesh, where flooding prevents treatment systems.
The trio will travel to Bangladesh with WaterAid next year to meet local authorities and non-government representatives to assess whether their design is feasible .
Richard Flint, Yorkshire Water chief executive, said: “We are delighted to be the first water company to win as it embeds what we do as a firm, working with a great charity like WaterAid to give people around the world access to safe water. The flood strategy team worked extremely hard on their entry and put a lot of thought into what has and hasn’t worked in the past and that was commended by the judges. This is a fantastic achievement.”
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