Plotting a path to a digital water future
Water utilities face a challenge to make the most of the increasing opportunities offered by digital technologies. Here we review a new report produced...
Urban groundwater – mobilising stakeholders to improve monitoring
With urbanisation on the rise, the future resilience of cities will depend on the efficient and sustainable use of the groundwater reserves beneath them....
Progress on the path to reinventing the toilet
The UK’s Cranfield University took up the Gates Foundation’s Reinvent The Toilet challenge in 2012. From that has come a self-contained, waterless solution, which...
People power – how collaboration is the route to innovation
The UK’s Cranfield University is helping to organise this year’s IWA Leading Edge Technologies conference. Keith Hayward spoke with Dr Ana Soares about the...
India’s progress with industrial water reuse projects
A new water reuse project in the Indian city of Chennai, to supply the automotive sector with water derived from municipal sewage, highlights the...
RESCCUE: a European model for urban climate change resilience planning
Many cities are working towards resilience to better cope with shocks such as those caused by climate change. Marc Velasco, Beniamino Russo, Montse Martínez,...
The German case for energy efficiency in groundwater collection
Energy efficiency offers water suppliers the prospect of much-needed reductions in energy costs and carbon emissions. But it is a different matter to identify...
Integrating drinking water quality monitoring into the digital future of utilities
Real-time monitoring of the microbiological quality of drinking water is opening up new possibilities for water suppliers. Meanwhile, enhanced data capabilities are transforming utility...
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...
Realising the vision of a water sensitive city
Six cities around Australia have developed collaborative visions of what a water sensitive future looks like for them and are now working to implement these....
FEATURED STORY
Inside IWA’s DNA: how we adapt and thrive
The recent success of the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the latest sign that IWA is thriving. Kala Vairavamoorthy explores the reasons...
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...
