Unlocking the confluence of diverse people, energy, and ideas
Kala Vairavamoorthy explains how greater efforts to extend geographic diversity will allow IWA to expand its influence and contribute more fully to progress on...
Reducing emissions – China’s plan to go green
Xiaodi Hao, Ranbin Liu, Yu Wenbo and Shuang Li describe how new guidelines are helping China meet its ambitions for carbon reduction.
As an important...
Shitovation: solving sanitation challenges where sewers don’t exist
Seeking practical solutions for those without safe sanitation, Water For People has created a fund that supports creative, innovative solutions that are achieving great...
Why loss calculations must include opportunity costs
Some degree of leakage is inevitable but most non-revenue water discussions focus only on immediate physical losses within a utility’s distribution and billing. What...
Urban anti-fragility: the water sector beyond resilience
As water professionals face climate chaos, infrastructure solutions must go beyond resilience, argues Kala Vairavamoorthy. They must become anti-fragile, with systems growing cleaner and...
Corporate water strategy: improving watershed health through innovation
Corporations are increasingly building on their water stewardship strategies to attain net-zero goals for carbon and water, improve watershed health, and operate smarter systems...
COVID-19 – reviewing the impacts on water use
Lledó Castellet of the IWA Statistics and Economics Specialist Group provides an assessment of how COVID-19 impacted the water sector.
Two years ago, the world...
The rise of digital water
How and why digitalisation can revolutionise the 21st century utility. By Kala Vairavamoorthy and Will Sarni.
Global water utilities are about to discover – as...
Denmark’s water utility SDG agenda for change
Water and wastewater utilities in Denmark have taken a lead in the country, working to integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their...
Bridging the supply gap in rural Cambodia
In Cambodia, a dual-pronged approach involving French NGO 1001fontaines is helping to extend the delivery of safe drinking water to a wider population, while...
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Toronto Water – serving the host city of the World Water...
Toronto Water has transformed the city’s water management. Ahead of IWA’s World Water Congress & Exhibition in the capital of the Canadian province of...
NEWS
UNU report warns on tipping points if environmental risks not addressed
A new report released by the United Nations University (UNU) has found that drastic changes to fundamental socioecological systems are likely if environmental risks...
