From Grey to Blue: How Architecture Plays a Role in a Water-Wise World
A typical design sequence may be described as “architects make space, engineers add water.” Architectural designers handed over the task of configuring the water...
How the IWA deepened my perspective of the water industry
By Jacob Amengor
In 2015, I joined the International Water Association (IWA) through the IWA Connect platform. Prior to that, I had come across the...
Maximising financing for achieving the SDG ambition on water
By Guangzhe Chen*
Since 1990 an additional 2.1 billion people worldwide gained access to improved sanitation and, 91 percent of the global population now use improved...
Facebook has reached 2 billion new users; can the water sector do the same?
By Tom Williams*
Back in 2004, the founders of Facebook launched their service to a select group of university students. Fourteen years later and the...
Collaborate or fail: reaching millions to address sanitation capacity gaps
By Kirsten De Vette*
Have you ever wondered about what it takes for you to be able flush a toilet? It seems the most normal...
What do private companies look for in a performance-based non-revenue water project?
By Jemima Sy
Recent estimates place global annual non-revenue water (NRW), i.e. water produced but not billed because of commercial or physical losses, at 126...
WASH infrastructure without behaviour change isn’t WASH!
By Regina Souter*
The importance of ensuring everyone has access to sustainable clean water, safe sanitation, and is able to practice safe hygiene (or WASH...
Developing pathways to water-wise cities
By Tom Williams*
Two years ago, humanity passed a critical threshold. For the first time in human history more people lived in cities and urban...
Blockchain: the final drop in the wave of digital water disruption – Part 2
By Emma Weisbord
In Part 1 of this series, the fundamentals of blockchain were explained to provide a basis of understanding of this new technology...
A drop of pop into public communication by water professionals
By Miharu Hirano*
Public participation, as customer engagement, user involvement, accountability or transparency, is a concept increasingly discussed among water professionals. It aims to strengthening...
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...
