Global food companies ranked on water risk management
Ceres, a sustainability nonprofit organisation, has ranked the 42 largest global food and beverage companies–nearly all US-based–on how effectively they are responding to water dependence,...
Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize awarded to hydrogeologist
A selection committee for Singapore International Water Week, a biennial event that gathers leaders and innovators from the global water industry, has awarded the Lee...
IWMI brings in new leadership
The International Water Management Institute has appointed two new executives with broad experience in the conservation and use of transboundary rivers.
Claudia W. Sadoff arrived...
Bursting at the seams: new study highlights the realities of water loss
New research shows that levels of water loss could be far worse than previously thought. By James Workman
For decades, untold volumes of...
Results of Australian Water Survey released
The Australian Water Association and Arup have just released the Australian Water Outlook–the results of the Australian Water Survey which investigates attitudes to water...
US professor wins 2016 Stockholm Water Prize
Joan Rose has been named the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for her contributions to public health, by assessing risks to humans from water and...
Winners of ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award 2016 announced
Holger Daims (University of Vienna, Austria), Lut Raskin (University of Michigan, USA), and Mads Albertsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), have been announced as the winners...
First manual on human rights-based approach to IWRM launched
The UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI, Cap-Net, Redica and WaterLex, have launched a manual that brings together two fields that, until recently, have...
Water pioneers recognised at UN climate awards
By Richard Forster
Two projects bringing safe water supplies to African countries have been selected as Lighthouse Activities of the Momentum for Change initiative of...
Q&A: Rod Cookson, the new managing director of IWA Publishing
By Jonathan Andrews
What experience are you bringing to your new role?
Since studying geography at the University of Liverpool, I have spent more than 20...
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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...
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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...
