Why intermittent supplies are no answer to cities hit by drought
Brazil, Cyprus, Australia & South Africa compare stories of drought resilience at the Water Loss 2018 Conference in Cape Town. By Ronnie McKenzie
Nearly a year...
Is your water pricing strategy right?
In April, the IWA Specialist Group on Statistics & Economics held a workshop in Cyprus to discuss waterís elusive value. Ed Smeets and Lledó...
How Bitcoin’s footprint is impacting water use
By Montgomery Simus
Mineral extraction - gold, silver, copper or iron – has always been constrained by access to water. Miners had to degrade or...
How the water sector helps to map drug abuse
Wastewater researchers are assisting drug enforcement officials to reveal patterns of illicit activity flushed from neighbourhood toilets but is this a role the water...
How collaboration with residents is shaping a smart approach to water
Seed funds were used to clean up Skanderborg's lake and have led to a new citizen-centric approach to water use and conservation. By Rune Kier...
Why the water sector must embrace disruptive innovation – before it’s too late
By Kala Vairavamoorthy
Eight years ago, the legendary founder of Intel Corporation, Andrew S. Grove, published a book that could have been written explicitly for...
The power of mobile apps to drive bottom-up innovation
Todd Myers explains how smartphone-linked applications can help plug leaky systems from outside-in.
Consumer preferences can inspire big innovations. Waters didn’t want to shorten her...
A brave new water world
The story of Valor Water exemplifies how a start-up can go from lab to launch to Xylem subsidiary but it takes courage as well...
How to make your city water-wise
The Source puts the IWA’s new urban principles to the test
Water visions precede action. Yet it’s easy to offer “building blocks” to plan...
The young and the restless
Emerging water leaders are eager to jump ahead and set the agenda for 2050 and beyond. By Kirsten de Vette
At the latest International Young...
FEATURED STORY
Trust in water markets must be earned
Risks and externalities demand careful and inclusive design
By Nell Green Nylen and Michael Kiparsky
With markets increasingly viewed as a preferred (or even the only)...
NEWS
EEA cautions on European water prospects
The European Environment Agency’s latest annual indicator report shows that the European Union is continuing to fall short of achieving several of its environmental...
