International Water Association

Sydney Professor to join IWA’s Strategic Council

Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney, has been elected by his peers to...

IWA Best Practices on Resource Recovery Award 2017 now open

Driven by environmental, economic, and ecological benefits, resource recovery from waste has started to draw attention worldwide. Recovering resources from water and wastewater can...

Human rights champion claims IWA Global Water Award 2016

Catarina de Albuquerque of Portugal has been named the winner of the 2016 IWA Global Water Award. The award recognises the role she has...

Water efficiency experts meet in Bath to debate solutions

Waterwise hosted the IWA ‘Efficient 2017’ conference, leveraging new standards, labels, incentives, data, markets and policies Demand management through conservation and leak reduction is arguably...

World Wildlife Fund announces 2015 Russell E. Train Fellowship winners

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced the recipients of The 2015 Russell E. Train Fellowship. As part of the Russell E. Train Education for...

UN-Water appoints new Chair

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appointed Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as the new Chair of UN-Water....

Thai students win 2016 Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Three students from Thailand, Sureeporn Triphetprapa, Thidarat Phianchat and Kanjana Komkla, have received the 2016 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for their innovative water retention device...

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...

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...

Members of High-Level Panel on Water revealed

Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, and Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President, have announced the appointment of 10 Heads of State and Government,...

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...