Striving for desalination’s gold sustainability standard
Nikolay Voutchkov, who heads a world-leading innovation centre that is breaking new boundaries in desalination, spoke at last year's IWA LET conference. With the...
New masters programme launched for sanitation professionals
The unemployed may complain that their ‘career is in the toilet’ but an elite young and highly-skilled workforce could transform that expression into a...
Progress on the path to reinventing the toilet
The UK’s Cranfield University took up the Gates Foundation’s Reinvent The Toilet challenge in 2012. From that has come a self-contained, waterless solution, which...
The linear to circular shift for wastewater in Latin America
Daniel Nolasco, Diego Rodriguez, Hector Serrano, Anna Delgado and Gustavo Saltiel outline the opportunities for sustainable wastewater measures in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Intermittent supply in a rapidly growing city: the case of Kampala
Uganda’s National Water and Sewerage Corporation has been expanding supply coverage aggressively, requiring it to optimise use of intermittent water supply. Mahmood Lutaaya and...
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s path to progress
Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has become one of the most successful water utilities in the region. Director General Sim Sitha sets out...
Groundwater: Protecting tomorrow’s resources
Lack of data, illegal abstraction, population growth, and unsustainable agricultural practices are putting the continued supply of good quality groundwater at risk. Based on...
Rwanda: hosting the dialogue on water and development
With registration now open for IWA’s Water and Development Congress & Exhibition in Kigali, Rwanda, in December, Programme Committee chair Doulaye Kone explains why...
Portugal enables the human rights to water and sanitation by design
By Carolina Latorre
Policies are blueprints through which we transform vision into reality.
So when the sixth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG6) incorporated the human rights to safe...
African prospects for performance-based non-revenue water contracts
Performance-based contracts offer the potential to help African water utilities tackle non-revenue water. Jessica Ertel, Roland Liemberger and Ignacio Peña review prospects, and highlight one of...
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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...
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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...
