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Award-winning phosphorus recovery
Watch this on-demand webinar, to learn how innovative technology is positively impacting phosphorus recovery performance at a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Germany. If...
Water Quality Benefits of SIX – a suspended ion exchange system...
By Elisabeth Vaudevire
In their adaptation to climate change, many drinking water utilities are facing challenges related to increasing and more persistent dissolved organic matter...
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...
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...
Water’s global agenda: where do we go from here?
The much-anticipated 2023 United Nations Water Conference was an historic event. But did it deliver what the sector had hoped for or needed? By...
Igniting the spark
IWA’s new Emerging Water Leaders Programme will help nurture talented young individuals in the sector. Erika Yarrow-Soden spoke to Glen and Patty Daigger, founding...
IWA’s Congress connections
IWA’s 2023 Water and Development Congress & Exhibition is approaching fast – the event in December will be with us soon. Picking up from...
Modelling for circular and sustainable options
The IWA Water Resource Recovery Modelling Seminar, held earlier this year, showcased the latest thinking on modelling and its potential to transform water and...
A celebration of ‘bottom-up’
‘Bottoms up!’ is one of the many phrases used around the world to announce a toast. Similar versions include ‘Gan Bei!’, which, translated, literally...
SDG 6 – the mid-term messages
The United Nations’ (UN’s) Mid-term Review of the Water Action Decade: Key messages from the United Nations Regional Commissions report was released at the...
Climate change and urban groundwater – the path to resilience
Climate change is making the management of urban groundwater more critical than ever before. Radu Gogu, Susie Mielby, Jane Dottridge and Stephen Foster highlight...
Bathrooms of the Future: the potential of smart water technology
A research project in Australia has been looking at how smart tech devices can deliver solutions to help manage and reduce water usage. Cameron...
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...
Pioneering the path to non-sewered sanitation
With IWA’s first conference on non-sewered sanitation taking place later this year, Jay Bhagwan, chair of the Specialist Group on this topic, highlights the...
Moving from the shadows – Putting leakage management centre stage in...
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...
Blue Water Factories in China: the future of wastewater treatment
Sustainable wastewater treatment is critical to the circular economy. Xiaodi Hao, Ji Li, Yuanyuan Wu, Ranbin Liu and Ran Cai describe a framework under...
Harnessing electrons – seizing the potential of transferable technology
Suresh Pillai, Andrzej Chmielewski and Jianlong Wang describe how ionising radiation technologies, routinely used for medical disinfection, could be transformative for the water sector.
Traditional...
Study warns of Himalayan glacier loss without urgent emissions cut
Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region could lose up to 80% of their current volume by the end of the century according...
Report finds sharp growth in global hydro capacity
A new report by the International Hydropower Association has found that global hydropower increased by 34 GW in the past year, including over 10...
Voices that will shape the future
IWA’s Young Water Professionals are an impressive congregation with the drive and determination to meet the challenges of the global water crises. Inês Breda...
