Too many indicators make monitoring murky
By SungBong Lee, Tamara Avéllan, and Sabrina Julie Kirschke*
Good water quality is essential for human well-being and for maintaining a healthy environment with high...
The wisdom of planning for a Water Wise Kenya
By Sarah Tibatemwa*
The current drought ravaging parts of Eastern Africa and the subsequent famine triggered largely by failed rains is enough proof that water...
Developing pathways to water-wise cities
By Tom Williams*
Two years ago, humanity passed a critical threshold. For the first time in human history more people lived in cities and urban...
Hydroelectric power and the water-energy nexus
By Devon Hardy
Climate change can no longer be ignored. Despite the current US Administration downgrading the threat of climate change in its National Security...
How Sierra Leone water utility is setting an example in Africa
By Cheikh Tidiane FALL*
The Guma Valley Water Company of Sierra Leone has become the first water company on the African continent to get an AquaRating certificate,...
Water Policy and Regulation, Untapped Opportunities
Economies run on water. According to a study published by UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme, “78% of the jobs constituting the global workforce are...
How cities translate water’s language
By James Workman
''Well-designed ancient Incan water systems may help modern Lima cope with climate change''
Buenos Aires, Lima, São Paulo, Bogotá, Caracas. Latin America is...
Wastewater, one of the greatest untapped opportunities for sustainable development in India
By Sushmita Mandal*
As a fast growing economy, urbanising at an even faster rate, India is already water stressed. The severe drought of 2016, which affected...
The case against rainwater harvesting
Equipped with digital media, driven by awareness of climate change, we grow savvy about sustainable solutions. But solving a natural resource issue like water...
Water security requires the removal of subsidies
By Stella Thomas*
Shrouded in an abaya, my first sight of Saudi Arabia in 2009 revealed desert extravagance. From the sands sprouted a flourishing garden...
FEATURED STORY
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...
