SDG progress by making water rights real in service delivery
Experience is growing with use of specially developed guidance to overcome local misunderstandings or concern over what the human rights to water and sanitation...
Elevating the water sector’s contribution to urban living
Water industry activity can underpin creation of more livable cities, and it contributes to progress with the Sustainable Development Goals. Adam Lovell explains how...
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...
WHO’s climate-resilient WSP progress
Rory Moses McKeown gives an insight into the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) work on climate-resilient water safety plans, including their application in Ethiopia. Plus see main article...
The climate resilience role for water safety plans
The use of water safety plans is being extended in response to the growing challenges of climate change. Kizito Masinde, Katharine Cross and Matthew Damons look at...
How can we achieve joined-up regulation to help meet the UN SDG6 water goal?
How can we achieve joined-up water regulation, connecting economic, health and environmental goals, to help meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 6? What are the...
How Africa can leapfrog the world’s stagnant water paradigm
Africa has an unprecedented opportunity to embrace widespread water innovation. IWA is poised to help catalyse this, and to share the lessons globally in...
South Africa’s success with onsite sanitation social franchising
Kevin Wall, Oliver Ive and Jay Bhagwan explain the progress made in developing and applying social franchising to maintain onsite sanitation systems in homes and schools...
Going with the social franchising flow
Jay Bhagwan, chair of IWA’s Specialist Group on Non-sewered Sanitation, gives the background to and looks at the prospects for South Africa’s use of...
Mobile signals the way for digital opportunities
George Bauer and Akanksha Sharma of the GSMA highlight the water opportunities with mobile communications
“There are several channels through which mobile technology can impact...
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...
