Why water insecurity is changing our profession
A new viral online application lets you calculate the odds that your career will be automated. It’s an unnervingly existential tool: type in ‘occupation’...
The problem with experts
The International Water Association (IWA) hosts forty-nine ‘specialist groups’ through which exceptional researchers and practitioners generate cutting edge solutions. The organisation -as demonstrated throughout this magazine – seeks out...
Why rights unlock resilience
Water security owes less to any chosen technology than to the forces behind it. Substitute ‘dams’ with ‘desalination plants,’ ‘groundwater banks,’ ‘rainwater harvesting,’ ‘water...
The price of water is eternal vigilance
What is water worth?
In one form or another, that question runs through this entire issue. The answer depends on who gets asked – including...
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...
Embracing water’s all-too-human Legacy
I grew up fascinated by water as a powerful force of nature. It felt magic, beyond the reach of my family, country, or species. Drought or flood, water...
How cities translate water’s language
By James Workman
''Well-designed ancient Incan water systems may help modern Lima cope with climate change''
Buenos Aires, Lima, São Paulo, Bogotá, Caracas. Latin America is...
Water’s balancing act
Two articles in this edition highlight some of the complexities the water community faces in its efforts to balance multiple interests and factors.
One is...
The many values of water
As this year’s World Water Development Report makes abundantly clear, it does not really make sense to think of the value of water. There...
Delivering a drought response
The recent report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the US National Drought Mitigation Center on drought hotspots (see Analysis,...
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Iran’s drive for smart water consumption
Pezhman Taherei explains how in the face of climate change and recurring droughts, Iranian water authorities are redefining how they communicate with customers.
Tehran, Iran,...
NEWS
UK’s first wastewater monitoring pilot
The UK’s first pilot wastewater monitoring centre has been launched at the University of Bath.
Researchers at the Excellence Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection...
