Brisbane’s journey to become a water-wise city
Water powers Australia’s New World City, which is home to more than one million people and is one of the fastest growing regions in...
Water science and technology, multiplying research through collaborations
By Hong Li*
The water crisis remains one of the top five global risks, according to the recently published World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2017....
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...
Water and sanitation companies must be socially responsible
By Marco Antonio Cevallos*
The Public Water and Sanitation Company of Quito, EPMAPS Agua de Quito, has been providing water and sanitation services to Ecuador’s capital...
What leaks reveal
By James Workman
Government and business are increasingly obsessed with information leaks.
The tech company Apple fears leaks about products and labour practices have damaged its...
In developing countries, increased financing for water utilities is the only way to achieve...
By David Omolo
One of the very first things that struck me when I came to the Netherlands, was how inconsequential drinking water was for...
Bring on the floods: how water professionals can help make cities resilient
By Bruce Beck
‘Engineering resilience’. The phrase was coined by an ecologist to signal something inferior, something not wanted — the constancy of timber production...
Phosphorus recovery and reuse from wastewater
By Prof. Hisao Ohtake
Phosphorus (P) is essential to human life and vital for food production. It is the critical building block of DNA, cell membrane...
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...
The South African drought teaches us that business as usual is too little, too...
By Kirsten de Vette*
South Africa has been suffering through one of the most severe droughts in living memory. In Cape Town, it is the...
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...
