Mobile water services

Temporary, rental, containerised and skid-based water and wastewater treatment solutions. Rapidly deployed, to support your operations as long as you need.

Responsive. Reliable. Reputable.

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What are mobile water services?

Our mobile water services provide fast and flexible access to proven water and wastewater treatment solutions. We help you to maintain operations and minimise downtime when your existing water infrastructure is unavailable or inadequate for your requirements.

We deliver essential water treatment capabilities in a compact, modular and portable footprint that does not require capital expenditure. Our rental water and wastewater treatment systems are an alternative or complimentary service to permanent infrastructure investment, whilst ensuring your heavy industry operations maintain productivity and regulatory compliance.

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When to use a mobile water service

Industrial facilities need consistent and reliable water management to sustain operations. Our trailer-based, containerised and skid-based water and wastewater treatment units are rapidly deployed and offer scalable capacity for:

  • Emergency response to equipment breakdowns

  • Temporary water supply during facility shutdowns and planned outages

  • Supplemental capacity for production increases, batch production or seasonal production variation

  • Interim solutions during infrastructure upgrades or industrial site refurbishment

  • Transitional systems for longer-term, multi-phase industrial projects

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Typical industrial applications for mobile water services

  • Emergency water supply during mains failures or interruptions
  • Backup water provision during infrastructure breakdowns
  • Contingency supply for critical operations
  • Unplanned outage support

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  • Scheduled maintenance shutdowns
  • Plant turnarounds
  • Pipeline repairs and upgrades
  • Infrastructure replacement projects
  • System commissioning and testing
  • Process water for production lines
  • Boiler feed water supply
  • Cooling water systems
  • Washing and cleaning operations
  • Product manufacturing processes
  • New facility commissioning
  • Site expansions before permanent connection
  • Production line installations
  • Equipment testing and validation
  • Temporary supply during construction phases
  • Peak demand supplementation
  • Seasonal production increases
  • Water quality issues with permanent supply
  • Pressure boosting requirements
  • Treatment system failures or upgrades
  • Emergency water supply during mains failures or interruptions
  • Backup water provision during infrastructure breakdowns
  • Contingency supply for critical operations
  • Unplanned outage support

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  • Scheduled maintenance shutdowns
  • Plant turnarounds
  • Pipeline repairs and upgrades
  • Infrastructure replacement projects
  • System commissioning and testing
  • Process water for production lines
  • Boiler feed water supply
  • Cooling water systems
  • Washing and cleaning operations
  • Product manufacturing processes
  • New facility commissioning
  • Site expansions before permanent connection
  • Production line installations
  • Equipment testing and validation
  • Temporary supply during construction phases
  • Peak demand supplementation
  • Seasonal production increases
  • Water quality issues with permanent supply
  • Pressure boosting requirements
  • Treatment system failures or upgrades

Industries we serve

Visit our dedicated pages to learn more about the mobile water services, technologies and equipment that we provide for specific industrial facilities. You will discover industry-specific information, how we work with EPCs, detailed customer case studies and further relevant resources.

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Power generation

Veolia Picto - Pharma

Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and life sciences

Veolia Picto - CPI

Refineries and chemical processing

Veolia Picto - F&B

Food and beverage

Veolia Picto - Municipal

Municipalities

Veolia Picto - Metals and Mining

Minerals, mining and metals

Veolia Picto - MicroE

Microelectronics and data centres

Veolia Picto - General manufacturing

General manufacturing

Flexible service levels for every need

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EXPRESS 

  • 24/7 emergency mobile Ion Exchange 

  • Use in the event of water equipment failure, regeneration or effluent handling problems, downstream issues or demand spikes due to extreme weather

  • Short-term rental period (hours to weeks)

  • Rapid deployment within 2 hours of your call

FREE Emergency Water Plans to ensure optimal response and reactivity.

Call our 24/7 UK emergency hotline:

+447799 772 775 

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FLEX

  • Wide range of technologies and large fleet

  • Short-term rental from days up to 12 months

  • Performance-based, full-service with autonomous maintenance and remote monitoring

  • Ideal for scheduled maintenance, upgrades, or commissioning projects

FREE Planned Outage Plans to ensure optimal support during shutdowns and turnarounds.

Veolia Mobile Water Services long term service agreements

ALLIANCE

  • For long-term, multi-year service partnerships to offset or manage CAPEX

  • Fixed monthly price pay-as-you-go model

  • Includes assets, technicians and maintenance

  • Focus on your core business while 
    we handle water treatment

Why UK industrial plant operators choose Veolia mobile water services:

Rapid response when you need it most:

  • 24/7 rapid Ion Exchange deployment in the event of water equipment failure
  • Fully operational systems within 24-48 hours of arriving on site
  • Experienced technicians on-site for installation and commissioning
  • Experienced Veolia drivers and technical support teams

Strategic flexibility for your operations:

  • Planned deployment coordinated with your project timeline
  • Scalable solutions that adapt to changing requirements
  • Long-term service agreements with predictable costs
  • Avoid capital expenditure while maintaining operational excellence
  • Trial periods for technology evaluation before permanent investment

Watch this video to learn more about our mobile water services European centre of excellence located at Peterborough, UK:

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"The client had strict criteria that had to be met for this project and they were looking for an innovative, medium-term temporary solution that would be cost effective yet offer safety and environmental benefits.

 

Our skilled engineers offered a unique solution in our mobile EDI technology which was able to meet all of the client’s needs while achieving significant cost savings over more traditional solutions."

 

 PIONEERING ELECTRODEIONISATION MOBILE SYSTEM DELIVERS COST, SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY BENEFITS FOR REFINERY 

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"This project demonstrates the power of collaborative problem-solving with our customers.

 

Rather than simply responding to a cost reduction request, we conducted a comprehensive value assessment that identified how mobile water assets could fundamentally improve the process efficiency.

 

It's a blueprint for how mobile water services can add strategic value beyond traditional equipment rental."


MULTI-YEAR MOBILE WATER SERVICE DELIVERS £100K ANNUAL SAVINGS FOR CCGT POWER STATION

How our mobile water services work:

  1. Consultation: our experts assess your specific needs, water quality, and operational requirements 

  2. Design: engineered system tailored to your facility's specifications, local regulations and project timeline

  3. Deployment: equipment delivered and installed according to your project schedule with minimal disruption

  4. Commissioning: system startup and comprehensive operator training

  5. Support: 24/7/365 technical support, monitoring, and maintenance throughout rental period 

  6. Optimisation: regular reporting and optimisation throughout the project, with system modifications as project requirements evolve

  7. Transition: seamless handover to permanent systems or contract extension

Technical specifications

Our mobile water treatment fleet includes:

  • Reverse osmosis systems (1-140 m³/hr per single unit)
  • Ion exchange systems (demineralisation and softening)
  • Ultrafiltration and microfiltration units
  • Electrodeionisation (EDI) systems
  • Chemical feed and storage systems
  • Mobile evaporators and crystallisers
  • Biological treatment systems
  • Water storage and distribution equipment

All systems feature:

  • PLC-based controls with remote monitoring capabilities
  • Continuous water quality monitoring and data logging
  • Weatherised enclosures
  • Compliance with EU directives and CE marking
  • Energy-efficient designs supporting sustainability goals
  • Integration capabilities with existing plant systems
  • Redundancy options for critical applications

Compliance and environmental stewardship

In addition to safeguarding your operational uptime, our mobile water services also help uphold your environmental commitments and compliance obligations.

We ensure:

  • Continued adherence to discharge limits and environmental regulations
  • Proper treatment of wastewater streams
  • Sustainable water management and conservation practices
  • Comprehensive documentation and reporting for compliance purposes

By outsourcing to our experienced team, you minimise environmental risks while focusing on your core operations. We'll ensure water treatment continuity while upholding industry-leading standards for environmental protection.

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Get expert guidance for your water management needs

Every industrial facility has unique water treatment needs. Our highly experienced and dedicated UK mobile water services team will work with you to design the optimal solution for your site.

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Frequently asked questions

How fast can you deploy?

In an emergency, our ion exchange mobile units can be deployed within 2 hours of your call. Planned projects: we coordinate  to your schedule.

What's the typical rental period?

Flexible:  from hours to 10+ years depending on your needs.

Do you provide operators?

Yes. Full-service operation, staff training, or remote monitoring as required.


Can mobile systems match permanent installation quality?

Yes. Same proven technologies, same water quality standards, full UK compliance.

How do costs compare to buying permanent equipment?
Depending on the technical and site requirements - mobile solutions can offer significant cost savings for projects of a certain length when considering total cost of ownership. This can be calculated and discussed with our expert team according to your site.
Can we extend or modify contracts?

Yes, we offer flexible contract terms that can be extended or modified as your project requirements evolve.



How do you support sustainability goals?
Modern mobile systems feature energy-efficient designs, and right-sized temporary solutions often have lower overall carbon footprints than oversized permanent installations. We provide carbon footprint reporting for your sustainability disclosures.
What happens at the end of the rental period?
We provide coordinated transition planning, whether that's extending the rental, transitioning to permanent systems, or demobilisation. All transitions are planned to ensure zero disruption to operations.
How many mobile units will I typically need?
Over 80% of our mobile water deployments are single unit deployments – a single trailer, container, or skid of the right size, with ancillaries as needed (pump skids, tanks, chemical dosing etc.) supplied from our mobile water fleet.
 
For higher flow rates or multi-step treatment processes, we would supply two or three units, in parallel or in series – there's not much added complexity as the units are equipped with control integration to allow them to function as a single plant.
 
There's no practical upper limit – we've successfully commissioned big projects with over 15 mobile water containers working in parallel.
 
We continuously adapt our fleet to reduce deployment time and complexity – integrating multiple process steps in a single container unit (e.g. ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis for water reuse; RO and electrodeionisation for high purity water production) and increase production flow rates, so that most of our customers' site needs can be fulfilled with a single unit.
What is the typical plot area required for a temporary mobile water treatment system?

Most of our mobile water fleet are trailer or container units, in a standard 40′ ISO container size (12.2m L × 2.5m W × 2.2m H).

The unit will typically need 1.5m of clearance on all sides and good access for trailer truck or crane.

Smaller skids (e.g. pumps, tanks, ion exchange vessels) are usually smaller than 2.5m × 2.5m and can be moved with a standard forklift.

Our dedicated mobile water design & proposal engineers are familiar with all sorts of local site conditions and, where needed, will create a site-specific layout diagram to optimise the use of available space and accelerate our commissioning activities. 

What are the utility requirements for mobile water treatment systems?
For most of our mobile water deployments: feed water and product water connections + an approved site drain. We will supply pumps and break tanks if needed. Gravity drain (e.g. floor-level process drains) are preferred.
 
Electricity supply ranges from standard industrial 110V/230V connections for our dual-voltage ion exchange trailers, to wired in 3-phase 415V power supplies for high pressure reverse osmosis units.
 
Generators can be used in areas where local power isn't readily available.
 
Compressed air supply isn't usually required and chemical dosing is either integrated within our units or from dedicated, suitably sized dosing skids.
What are the regeneration and chemical requirements for mobile water treatment systems?
Our mobile ion exchange trailers and skids do not require chemical regeneration on site.
 
This eliminates chemical handling and exposure hazards on site and allows very quick deployment, often producing pure water within an hour of arriving on site.
 
As the ion exchange resin naturally exhausts when producing pure deionised water, a trailer is exchanged for a fresh unit for continuity of supply, and the exhausted resin is regenerated at our dedicated Service Centres.
 
Alternatively, especially for longer deployments, our mobile EDI (electrodeionisation) units produce up to 100 m³/h of pure deionised water without any regeneration chemicals.
 
For applications other than ion exchange, chemical dosing is sometimes needed (e.g. for ultrafiltration feed water conditioning or reverse osmosis fouling protection) – this is always evaluated by our application engineers, and a suitable chemical delivery can be arranged from our specialty water treatment chemicals portfolio. Chemical dosing hardware is either integrated within our units or from dedicated, suitably sized dosing skids.
How much effluent is produced and how is it managed with a mobile water treatment system?
This depends on the chosen technology and typically ranges from near-zero waste (ion exchange units) through ≈5% feed water to drain (ultrafiltration, EDI etc.) to ≈25% feed water to drain for reverse osmosis (RO).
 
Improving our sustainability is absolutely crucial to Veolia mobile water activities; our design teams optimise each deployment for minimum wastewater generation, and our fleet innovations such as high recovery reverse osmosis, built-in water recycle streams, high resistance membranes etc. allow us to continuously reduce the amount of wastewater generated from our mobile water deployments.
What are the connection requirements for interfacing with the plant?
Our mobile water units are designed for a variety of applications and communication protocols – from taking a simple remote control start/stop signal to full SCADA integration via Ethernet or wirelessly.
 
In the vast majority of our deployments, all we need is a product tank level signal – that way, the mobile plant continuously adjusts to match site demand, control is synchronised between the main unit and ancillaries.
 
Our digital remote monitoring system for remote quality monitoring and reporting provides a complete overview of site performance easily accessible by authorised Veolia engineers and our Customers' staff.

Responsive. Reliable. Reputable.

 

About Veolia mobile water services

 

Veolia is a global leader in optimised resource management, providing water, waste, and energy management solutions to industrial and municipal clients.

 

Our mobile water services division operates one of the largest fleets of rental water and wastewater treatment equipment in Europe, backed by unmatched technical expertise and customer support.

 

We partner with industrial businesses and EPCs across the UK, Europe and globally, to deliver flexible, sustainable water treatment solutions that support operational excellence.