Partick Pumping Station, which serves 170,000 people, is one of more than 30 pumping stations Scottish Water is upgrading by connecting to a cloud-based digital app
A Glasgow water waste facility has undergone a technological transformation 120 years after it was built at the end of the Victorian era.
The installation of the state-of-the-art ’smart hardware’ at Partick, which will help view and manage pumping performance better, is in sharp contrast to how the pumping station was operated when it opened in 1904 with the use of old steam-driven pumps. READ MORE: Paisley midwife takes on ultra marathon to raise funds for bereaved parents
Now Scottish Water has ambitions to improve its asset management strategy, reduce its energy consumption and reach its Net Zero targets by 2040.Nathan Wield, Scottish Water’s wastewater operations manager, said: “We have installed this smart hardware at Partick Pumping Station to be able to view and manage pumping performance better, which is a long way from the old steam driven pumps that were originally installed in the station at the start of the 20 th century.
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