Indian insights for the drive to decentralisation
IWA Women in Water Award winner Nafisa Barot looks back on the early experiences of setting up an NGO in India and at how...
Water’s AI and machine learning opportunities
With the latest IWA Digital Water Summit taking place in November, Prabhushankar Chandrasekeran explains why AI and machine learning are essential tools for the...
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...
The three scales of water innovation
Inspired by the animal kingdom, Sudhir Murthy explains how to integrate infrastructure with digital solutions.
Many go through life neither knowing nor caring where their...
How to address water security
Water security is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and is required for delivering a water-smart society. Jan Hofman, Juliana Marcal and Blanca...
A global repository for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater data
To progress the contribution of wastewater surveillance of the COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2, a group of international partners have established a global collaborative repository for...
The hunt for Omicron in wastewater
Two years on from the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the virus continues to disrupt lives and create uncertainties, especially because of variants. The Source reviews...
Heaven sent: The need to harvest rainwater
Rainwater harvesting, once seen as a quaint tradition of the rural poor, is growing in stature and scale, driven by urban demand, new mandates,...
A roadmap for transforming cities
Australia’s Urban WaterGuide provides a blueprint for future-proofing cities. Tony Wong, Jamie Ewert, and Katharine Cross show how its philosophy of integrated water management...
The value of 24/7 water
Five hundred million people in South Asia still do not have access to a permanent water supply. James Workman highlights how three Indian cities...
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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...
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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...
