Collaborate or fail: reaching millions to address sanitation capacity gaps
By Kirsten De Vette*
Have you ever wondered about what it takes for you to be able flush a toilet? It seems the most normal...
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...
Facebook has reached 2 billion new users; can the water sector do the same?
By Tom Williams*
Back in 2004, the founders of Facebook launched their service to a select group of university students. Fourteen years later and the...
Shifting values towards conservation
By Devon Hardy
We live in a world in which everything has an economic value. Our time is measured in opportunity cost, our value to...
The balance of ancient and codified rights
By Shane Allen*
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand at the foot of Mount Tarawera. My father used to take me...
Brisbane’s journey to become a water-wise city
Water powers Australia’s New World City, which is home to more than one million people and is one of the fastest growing regions in...
Blockchain: the final drop in the wave of digital water disruption – Part 2
By Emma Weisbord
In Part 1 of this series, the fundamentals of blockchain were explained to provide a basis of understanding of this new technology...
How to endure drought: a multi-faceted response
By Sarah Ann Wheeler*
How best should water professionals confront scarcity? Professional backgrounds tend to predetermine one answer and often seek a silver bullet as the solution.
Engineers...
Embracing a holistic approach to urban water
By Jerry Yudelson*
A mega-drought showed California’s cities could reduce water demand by 25 percent, at least temporarily. But as climate change accelerates extreme weather,...
Water’s new development path
By Yang Villa*
It still surprises people outside of the water sector when they find out that the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS)...
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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...
