Can heavenly words calm secular tempers in disputes over water?
By James Workman
The ancients knew water could be synonymous with conflict. So as scarcity elevated risks of thirst, hunger, and political instability, they began to engineer...
New tools vs. old truths
How many times did you hear from your elders: ‘When I was your age, I didn’t have a (fill in the blank) to do my...
The South African drought teaches us that business as usual is too little, too...
By Kirsten de Vette*
South Africa has been suffering through one of the most severe droughts in living memory. In Cape Town, it is the...
Principles of persuasion
How the social sciences can help unlock the barriers to adopting new technologies. By Sapna Mulki.
The human capacity for innovation that ensures evolution and...
Making the human rights to water and sanitation a reality
The IWA has developed a manual for practitioners to explain what service providers, municipalities and other sector professionals need to do in order to realise...
What will be the leading edge water solutions of the 21st century?
By Hong Li, Science & Technology, and Specialist Groups Manager at IWA
Throughout history, securing a reliable and safe water supply, and dealing with wastewater, have been...
AquaRating: transforming the water and sanitation sector
By Corinne Cathala*
For all of us who have been working in water for the last 15 years or more, 2015 was year 1, the...
What do private companies look for in a performance-based non-revenue water project?
By Jemima Sy
Recent estimates place global annual non-revenue water (NRW), i.e. water produced but not billed because of commercial or physical losses, at 126...
New water funds for city water supplies
By Ger Bergkamp*
Water continues to rank high on the World Economic Forum’s risk ladder. The water crisis, together with extreme weather events, natural disasters, and...
Answering the call to invest in the world’s poor
By Gary White*
Many of the world’s leading philanthropic organisations, development banks, government officials, and impact entrepreneurs gathered at the United Nations to address 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...
