Rethinking investment in urban resilience
By Corinne Trommsdorff, Lisa Andrews, Aparna Sridhar*
Cities today face many competing demands. They must ensure enough food and water to sustain growing populations, plan...
Can the Year of Wastewater catalyse action in Albania?
By Arlinda Ibrahimllari*
As a young wastewater engineer at the Water Supply and Sewerage Company in Korça, the largest city in southeast Albania, I was given...
Research on the frontiers of urban ecology
From the IWA journals Water Science & Technology and Water Policy:
Forging linkages: How to scale up urban projects from below
Cities want to recycle water and...
Water management is a serious business, not a game!
By Simone De Kleermaeker*
Water management is increasingly challenged by pressures such as population growth, sea level rise and climate change. Given the uncertainties about the...
Integrating Nature into Urban Sanitation Services
By Fabio Masi
Decoupling of biogeochemical cycles: will we be able to face this challenge?
Biogeochemical cycles comprise a sequence of events where chemicals or molecules...
There has never been a better time to be a water professional
By Tom Williams*
Never before has water been so high on the global political agenda; never before has water expertise been in such high demand....
Records can be broken: Lessons from the Millennium Drought
Australia has a long history of frequent droughts and consequently, much of its water management has been geared to coping with drought and its...
The balance of ancient and codified rights
By Shane Allen*
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand at the foot of Mount Tarawera. My father used to take me...
Water utilities must adopt a “we can” attitude to water loss management
By Roland Liemberger*
Predicting the future is a risky business. From technological innovation to climate change, and everything in between, the world around us seems to...
Charting trends for an uncertain water future
By Hong Li*
The water sector finds itself facing unprecedented challenges. The World Economic Forum has placed water at the top of its global risks...
FEATURED STORY
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...
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...
