Singapore: Groundwater monitoring to be expanded
PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, is planning to expand its groundwater monitoring network. It will be calling two tenders over the next few months for the installation of...
Peter Joo Hee Ng, Chief Executive of PUB, Singapore’s national water...
A combination of maximising rainwater collection, along with intensive water reuse and use of desalination, has made Singapore a global leader as far as...
China turns to carbon-neutral treatment plants
By Xiaodi Hao and Rowan Kohll
In Zhejiang province on China’s east coast, people pride themselves on tenacity and ingenuity. Both qualities appear to have...
Why clean energy is a water conservation strategy
A greener grid that slashes emissions may also be 40% less thirsty, boosting local resilience while meeting international climate and SDG commitments
By Kate Zerrenner*
Recent...
Winners of ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award 2016 announced
Holger Daims (University of Vienna, Austria), Lut Raskin (University of Michigan, USA), and Mads Albertsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), have been announced as the winners...
Members of High-Level Panel on Water revealed
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, and Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President, have announced the appointment of 10 Heads of State and Government,...
Two US companies win 2016 China BlueTech Awards
Industrial wastewater specialist, OriginClear, and stormwater company, PaveDrain have won the first ever China BlueTech Awards. The innovation shown by the two US companies...
Californian ranch tests rice irrigation project
The first sustainable farming initiative, leveraging Israel’s research and innovation in water technology to reduce rice-crop water use, will begin this year at Conaway Ranch in...
UK government launches prize to finance solutions on water loss
The UK government’s Department For International Development (DFID) has unveiled a new innovation prize with the aim of mobilising funds to reduce the vast amounts of non-revenue...
Corroded pipes, eroded trust: the lessons from the failures in Flint
The lead poisoning of residents through the municipal water system in Flint, in Michigan state in the United States, aroused shock, anger and disbelief but...