Why water should take centre stage in climate discussions
By Maurice Hall
The recent UN IPCC report offers stark warnings about fast-rising temperatures. San Francisco’s Global Climate Action Summit unsurprisingly focused on reducing emissions....
Looking ahead to the Singapore Water Convention 2022
The Water Convention, co-organised by PUB and IWA, will be at the heart of Singapore International Water Week 2022, running 17-21 April 2022. The...
Drinking water safety: Addressing new impacts and toxicity drivers
Professor Susan Richardson, from the University of South Carolina, USA, gave a keynote at IWA’s 13th Micropol and Ecohazard Conference, held in Taipei, Chinese...
Coastal reservoirs: an untapped resource?
Coastal reservoirs have the potential to harness water for coastal communities that would otherwise flow to the sea. Shu-Qing Yang and Muttucumaru Sivakumar describe...
Urban Tehran embraces the Water Sensitive City concept
In Iran over the past 30 years, for every decade, an average temperature increase of one degree Celsius has been recorded. Over the past...
Water – facilitating collaborative dialogues
International collaboration will be essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and this will require trusted partners to facilitate negotiations. Erika Yarrow-Soden talks to...
Rain for resilience
Mooyoung Han explains how community-led rainwater innovations can be scaled to respond to the impacts of climate change.
In a world facing intensifying climate extremes,...
Cooperation and connectedness: water in a time of climate change
Academic and long-time IWA supporter Gustaf Olsson has explored water’s connections for many decades. His latest book underlines the need for a systems-based view...
COVID-19 – reviewing the impacts on water use
Lledó Castellet of the IWA Statistics and Economics Specialist Group provides an assessment of how COVID-19 impacted the water sector.
Two years ago, the world...
Five smart ways to engage water communities
By Juliet Ellis
Whether it is climate change adaptation, water quality protection, or investing in ageing infrastructure, water sector professionals face new and evolving challenges...
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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,...
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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...
