How the water sector helps to map drug abuse
Wastewater researchers are assisting drug enforcement officials to reveal patterns of illicit activity flushed from neighbourhood toilets but is this a role the water...
How collaboration with residents is shaping a smart approach to water
Seed funds were used to clean up Skanderborg's lake and have led to a new citizen-centric approach to water use and conservation. By Rune Kier...
Why the water sector must embrace disruptive innovation – before it’s too late
By Kala Vairavamoorthy
Eight years ago, the legendary founder of Intel Corporation, Andrew S. Grove, published a book that could have been written explicitly for...
The power of mobile apps to drive bottom-up innovation
Todd Myers explains how smartphone-linked applications can help plug leaky systems from outside-in.
Consumer preferences can inspire big innovations. Waters didn’t want to shorten her...
A brave new water world
The story of Valor Water exemplifies how a start-up can go from lab to launch to Xylem subsidiary but it takes courage as well...
How to make your city water-wise
The Source puts the IWA’s new urban principles to the test
Water visions precede action. Yet it’s easy to offer “building blocks” to plan...
The young and the restless
Emerging water leaders are eager to jump ahead and set the agenda for 2050 and beyond. By Kirsten de Vette
At the latest International Young...
New masters programme launched for sanitation professionals
The unemployed may complain that their ‘career is in the toilet’ but an elite young and highly-skilled workforce could transform that expression into a...
How local wastewater treatment is transforming city infrastructure
How local wastewater treatment is transforming city infrastructure
By Sandra Postel
Six years into Australia’s Millennium Drought, the managers of an attractive golf club,...
Bursting at the seams: new study highlights the realities of water loss
New research shows that levels of water loss could be far worse than previously thought. By James Workman
For decades, untold volumes of...
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...
