On 17th April 2020 IKT/ComNet WasteWater held a webinar to examine how sewer network operation is continuing during the fight against the coronavirus. Now the slides of the presentaitons are available for download.
The corona pandemic is forcing some people to take unusual measures. When supplies of toilet paper at home are exhausted and the shelves in the supermarkets are empty, people have to become creative. Then handkerchiefs, kitchen towel, non-flushable wet wipes and baby wipes, newspapers and, as we hear, even pages from books and old t-shirts are being used. You can do that if you don’t flush these things down the…
Corona crisis planning – this is the task currently facing all sewer network owners! In view of the current situation, the Kommunales Netzwerk Abwasser (KomNetABWASSER – Municipal Network Wastewater) and IKT have jointly decided to support all sewer network owners to the best of their ability. A hotline has been set up and the first of a series of web conferences was held where more than 60 network operators were…
In view of the progressive spread of the coronavirus, IKT has adopted its own preventive plan. The protection of the health and safety of our customers, employees and their families is our highest priority. For this reason – as far as the activities allow – home working has been provisionally ordered until Easter. All IKT scientists and testing staff will remain fully available to customers and partners via e-mail and…
The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes (COVID-19) is keeping everyone busy right now. Politicians are advising on measures, companies worry about their supply chains, and wherever cases of infection are reported, people are emptying supermarkets in fear of being confined to home for months. Sewer network operators and service providers are also worried. They are rightly wondering whether infected people excrete the virus and whether it is…
In 2019, 93% of the sewer liner samples (CIPP) submitted for inclusion in the IKT LinerReport achieved all the required material characteristics. But, seven percent of samples failed at least one of the four tests. So there remains a residual risk.
