Mamadou Dia, a Senegalese hydraulic engineer with 38 years of experience in the African water sector, has won this year’s IWA Development Award for...

By Richard Forster Two projects bringing safe water supplies to African countries have been selected as Lighthouse Activities of the Momentum for Change initiative of...

Five hundred million people in South Asia still do not have access to a permanent water supply. James Workman highlights how three Indian cities...

Tanju Karanfil, associate dean of research and graduate studies at Clemson University’s College of Engineering and Science, South Carolina, has been made a fellow...

What is water worth? In one form or another, that question runs through this entire issue. The answer depends on who gets asked – including...

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...

The cultivation of qat, a mild narcotic which is consumed by 70 percent of Yemeni adults, is draining aquifers in a country where three...

All too often, the fusion of investment capital and smart irrigation technology falls short of expectations. The most common mistake is to assume the...

By Stella Thomas* Shrouded in an abaya, my first sight of Saudi Arabia in 2009 revealed desert extravagance. From the sands sprouted a flourishing garden...

The Exacting Demands of Precise Water Statistics *Second in Aqua-Statisticians: A five part series Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya: Walk us through how a specific and significant data point...

*First interview in Aqua-Statisticians: A five part series To answer that question, The Source turned to the people behind the numbers at FAO-AQUASTAT, which for...

South Pole Group, a sustainability solutions provider, is partnering with CDP, that operates a global natural capital disclosure system, to carry out the world’s...

Jonathan Andrews met with Dr Hazim El-Naser, Minister of Water and Irrigation, Jordan, to discuss the impact of the Syrian crisis on his country’s...

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced the recipients of The 2015 Russell E. Train Fellowship. As part of the Russell E. Train Education for...

iDE, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the manufacture, marketing and distribution of affordable, scalable micro-irrigation, has released a new study on the upscaling of...

The World Bank has approved a credit of US$20 million for the Government of Nepal to implement the Power Sector Reform and Sustainable Hydropower...

Tracking changes in the optical properties and molecular composition of dissolved organic matter during drinking water production By E.E. Lavonen, D.N. Kothawala, L.J. Tranvik, M....

Interaction between the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Orleans Levee Board preceding the drainage canal wall failures and catastrophic flooding of New...

An enquiry into the place of systems analysis in the politics of water and the environment By J. Philip O’Kane Over the last fifty years, economic...

Instead of recycling pumps and switch shovellers and mixers, it is mechanically much easier, and …it is more feasible to implement in lower-income countries Richard...