Water on demand – making the dream a reality
Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) is a challenge around the world. Raziyeh Farmani looks at the situation in different regions, based on perspectives shared by...
Masdar: a paradigm for resource management?
Nick Michell spoke to leading water experts about Masdar’s attempt to become a green hydro city
"As one of the most recent attempts at billion-dollar hydro-eco-utopia, what...
Measure, measure, measure – the data key to sanitation success
IWA held a webinar on how data influences the delivery of sanitation services to those most in need. Erika Yarrow-Soden highlights the key messages.
On...
How the private sector is redefining the role of the water professional
Beyond traditional career paths in government, academia or NGOs, a new field is opening up in response to escalating exposure to water risks. The private...
Improving utility innovation uptake in the US
The Water Research Foundation has launched a new strategy that is set to boost practical demonstration of innovative technologies at the utility level. Keith...
Moving from the shadows – Putting leakage management centre stage in utility operations
Leakage is a global problem that risks water security, sustainable supplies and good-quality services. Bill Kingdom outlines the measures that utilities can take to...
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...
Tiny particles with mega impacts
In India, a research scientist and his team are manipulating invisible matter in ways that could quietly disrupt the global water purification industry
By James...
Real-time control transforms performance of wastewater system for Danish utility
With Denmark set to host the IWA Congress later this year, utility BlueKolding offers a case study from the country on how digital technology...
Revealing the identity of all wastewater treatment microbes
Work in Denmark has laid the foundations for identifying all the microbes in wastewater treatment systems and anaerobic digesters around the world with the...
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...
