International Water Association

COVID-19: an opportunity to recover better

The water sector has found itself caught up in the current pandemic in many ways. Our responses can help shape a more resilient future...
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Learning the pandemic lessons for low-occupancy buildings

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted closure and low occupancy of many buildings, raising water quality concerns, especially around Legionella. The Source looks at the issues...

Groundwater quality management for urban supply security

Water utilities have a key role to play in managing groundwater if this resource is to contribute fully to water supply security in the...

Prospects and promise at the leading edge

With IWA’s Leading Edge Technologies Conference taking place in Reno, Nevada, early next year, The Source spoke with conference president Professor Bruce Rittmann.   The innovation...

The Nigerian sanitation economy: possibilities and challenges

Peter Cookey and Mayowa Abiodun consider the potential for sanitation to improve health, the environment and the economy in Nigeria. The Nigerian Sanitation Economy could...

Challenges for implementing and maintaining wastewater treatment in LMIC

Wastewater expert and IWA Global Water Award 2021 winner Marcos von Sperling offers advice on providing new treatment in low- and middle-income countries, and...

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...

The cooperation key to sustainable industrial water use

Industries of all types are making progress on sustainability, but stakeholders – including water managers – must work together to drive change. By Cheryl...

Pioneering the path to non-sewered sanitation

With IWA’s first conference on non-sewered sanitation taking place later this year, Jay Bhagwan, chair of the Specialist Group on this topic, highlights the...

MoMoMo – Management of all water, for all, by all

Mooyoung Han describes how a water management philosophy for Korea could revolutionise approaches to tackling the global water crisis. As we seek to develop water...

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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...