Toronto Water – serving the host city of the World Water Congress 2024
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...
Brine – building the blocks to a successful circular economy
Brine valorization is being researched as a potential waste product from desalination that can be used as a concrete accelerator for the 3D printing...
Striving for desalination’s gold sustainability standard
Nikolay Voutchkov, who heads a world-leading innovation centre that is breaking new boundaries in desalination, spoke at last year's IWA LET conference. With the...
Kigali 2023 – a platform for participation and progress
IWA’s Water and Development Congress & Exhibition in December in Rwanda set a new benchmark as a practical water and sanitation platform by and...
Pathways to energy neutrality: a German case study of the Ruhrverband
Germany’s Ruhrverband is taking a pioneering role in sustainable utility operations. Norbert Jardin describes how the co-organiser of next year’s IWA LET conference succeeded...
Turning the tide on urban sanitation
In the previous issue, members of the Advisory Board of IWA’s Inclusive Urban Sanitation initiative set out their perspectives. Juliet Willetts picks up the...
WE-ACT – Climate-smart water allocation
Milica Velimirović describes an international project that is drawing together leading experts with the aim of developing mechanisms for the delivery of equitable water...
ADB’s collaborative contracts for O&M
The Asian Development Bank is drafting an innovative contract framework to support sustainable and secure water systems for people in the Asia and Pacific...
Measure, measure, measure – the data key to sanitation success
IWA held a webinar on how data influences the delivery of sanitation services to those most in need. Erika Yarrow-Soden highlights the key messages.
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How sewage surveillance lit Hong Kong’s pandemic path
Dr Samuel HK Chui explains how using wastewater surveillance in Hong Kong to help manage the spread of COVID-19 was like driving with the...
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Digital transformation takes the global water sector by storm
Digital transformation and digital water are concepts that have been present in the water industry for many years – yet it is fair to...
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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...
