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When trees became the enemy
Why North American cities must thin overgrown forests to improve water supplies. By Helen Poulos
As the global freshwater deficit grows, a survey of 1,000 “environmental...
Why Latin America’s hidden reserves are at risk
By Stephen Foster and Ricardo Hirata*
With 80 percent of Latin America’s population living in cities, municipal demands for a reliable clean water supply have...
Water efficiency experts meet in Bath to debate solutions
Waterwise hosted the IWA ‘Efficient 2017’ conference, leveraging new standards, labels, incentives, data, markets and policies
Demand management through conservation and leak reduction is arguably...
Turn utility risks into enterprise resiliency
By Heather Smith*
The desire for resilient water systems is fast becoming a keystone of utility governance. In 2016, an influential US consortium published “Taking the Next...
Cities, hubs for wastewater innovation
By Torgny Holmgren*
Water is a finite resource. With a growing population, an expanding global middle class and a rise in energy and industrial production,...
New initiative to curb hunting, conserve biodiversity and improve food security
A €45 million multi-partner programme has been launched to help African, Caribbean and Pacific countries halt unsustainable wildlife hunting, conserve their natural heritage and...
Water’s resource resurrection
By James Workman
Large herds of East African wildlife have little in common with urban sewage, until their immersion in water. In both cases, that medium...
A smart approach to urban wastewater
By Dragan Savic*
Smart cities can be surprisingly dumb about applying new technology to old water problems.
Maybe citizens assume their centralised invisible utility will make...
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,...
Masdar: a paradigm for resource management?
Nick Michell spoke to leading water experts about Masdar’s attempt to become a green hydro city
"As one of the most recent attempts at billion-dollar hydro-eco-utopia, what...
FEATURED STORY
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...
