Unlocking and financing climate-resilient, low-carbon emerging cities
By Tom Williams*
Rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest demographic shifts humanity has ever experienced, with the biggest impacts being felt by cities in...
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...
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...
Making the human rights to water and sanitation a reality
The IWA has developed a manual for practitioners to explain what service providers, municipalities and other sector professionals need to do in order to realise...
Maximising potential for healthy rivers and low-carbon energy
By Michelle Lakly*
As the global population climbs toward 9 billion, rivers will experience tremendous pressure. To provide the necessary resources for our growing communities, more...
How big is the distributed energy opportunity for water and wastewater utilities?
By Steven Kenway*
Energy costs for water utilities are large, and growing
Energy is a significant cost for many water utilities, and costs are growing as...
How to endure drought: a multi-faceted response
By Sarah Ann Wheeler*
How best should water professionals confront scarcity? Professional backgrounds tend to predetermine one answer and often seek a silver bullet as the solution.
Engineers...
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...
Too many indicators make monitoring murky
By SungBong Lee, Tamara Avéllan, and Sabrina Julie Kirschke*
Good water quality is essential for human well-being and for maintaining a healthy environment with high...
It is time to listen to emerging water leaders
In September 2015 world leaders adopted an ambitious and challenging agenda for sustainable development: 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030...