Kingspan launches new BioDisc sewage treatment plant with solar back-up solution
As part of their ongoing innovation and new product development strategy, Kingspan is proud to launch the new Klargester Modular BioDisc sewage treatment plant...
“The Water Guy” – Dr. Peter P. Rogers (1937-2018)
By Montgomery Simus & Susan Leal
He was by education and training a rational engineer. As a Harvard scholar and a gentleman he was unsentimental,...
United States: Obama signs plastic microbead ban
In December, US President Barack Obama signed a new law that will ban plastic microbeads from many cosmetic products and over-the-counter drugs, and aims...
India: New app to test water sources
A new low-cost water testing kit that works with a mobile phone could one day map safe drinking water sources for communities. The app,...
Hydroelectric power and the water-energy nexus
By Devon Hardy
Climate change can no longer be ignored. Despite the current US Administration downgrading the threat of climate change in its National Security...
Five cities to test new water resilience framework
To help cities better prepare for and respond to shocks and stresses to their water system, professional services firm Arup and The Rockefeller Foundation are set to launch...
Turning black markets into new opportunities
The cultivation of qat, a mild narcotic which is consumed by 70 percent of Yemeni adults, is draining aquifers in a country where three...
Denmark delivers: a huge success in Copenhagen
Erika Yarrow-Soden gives a view on some of the highlights of what has been heralded as IWA’s most successful Congress & Exhibition to date.
With...
Can nutrient pollution markets bring aquatic ‘dead zones’ back to life?
By James Workman
In 2018 researchers estimated that humans annually emit a whopping 1.47 teragrams of phosphorus into major freshwater basins. That’s too fast for...
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China’s water diversion project replenishes 30 rivers
China has replenished 30 of rivers via the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
The project, which began in April this year and...
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The importance of networks
By Karen Delfau*
Water managers across the globe, by the nature of our profession, face daily challenges and draw upon our own knowledge and experience to...
Integrated water management for all
How to cope with multiple and competing uses of water is a defining issue of our time. The concept of integrated water resources management...
New collaboration to advance sustainable water reuse in agriculture
The WateReuse Association, Water Environment & Reuse Foundation, and Pentair, a leader in creating sustainable water solutions, have come together to help advance the development of...
