The case of VCS Denmark – progress beyond net energy production
Danish water and wastewater utility VCS Denmark is already a net energy producer, but projects and innovations are set to bring further progress. By...
Hold back the waters – for cash?
From Australia to the US, cities are starting to embrace stormwater retention credit trading, or ‘catch and trade’ markets.
By James Workman
Extreme weather wreaks havoc...
Supporting innovators – the inspirers of change
Needs around water and wider issues such as sustainability and climate change demand innovation – including, but not limited to, technology. Sudhir Murthy and...
Efficiency follows equity
Australia’s experience shows how water markets can provide a useful response to escalating drought, if governments clearly define allocations in advance and ensure all...
Overcoming the FEAR factor can drive innovation
By Peter Yolles
For decades, water utilities have confronted rising costs and increasingly variable supplies with slow adoption of new technologies, practices, and behaviour. While...
Urban groundwater – mobilising stakeholders to improve monitoring
With urbanisation on the rise, the future resilience of cities will depend on the efficient and sustainable use of the groundwater reserves beneath them....
Developing the digital water toolbox
Digital technologies are reshaping the water sector, and the implications and opportunities around this are the focus of this year’s IWA Digital Water Summit....
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...
For California, second time’s a charm
Why the right to water depends on sustained political will and follow-through. By James Workman.
It is the birthplace of Apple and Google–companies worth nearly...
Unlocking the role of water reuse
The 13th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, held in Chennai, India, in January, saw leading experts in water reclamation and reuse...
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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...
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Development Bank establishes new fund for African urban sanitation
The African Development Bank has established the first African Urban Sanitation Investment Fund (AUSIF) to leverage public and private sector investment to support innovation...
