Security, supply and sanitation
With the UN SDG deadline of 2030 approaching fast, there is good reason to look beyond the core water supply and sanitation goals to...
Conflict or peace? Making water a power for good
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2024, Water for Prosperity and Peace, was launched on 22 March, marking World Water...
Engineering solutions that put society front and centre
Winner of IWA’s Water and Development Award for Research, Dr Veena Srinivasan explains why it is critical to consider social needs and impacts when...
Myth busting – clean piped water 24×7 for the people of...
Mathi Vathanan explains how the state of Odisha, in India, is working to deliver universal urban water services to transform the lives of its...
Bringing water and health to rural China
China has succeeded in delivering affordable, safe water to half a billion people living in the country’s rural areas. Jiuhui Qu reflects on how...
Water security: sustainability beyond the SDGs
The water supply and sanitation aims of the Sustainable Development Goals are vital, but water professionals must look beyond these to the wider need...
The search for sustainability in coastal areas
Coastal areas face challenges, but also offer their own opportunities, as shown by the key ideas and themes of the first international conference of...
Putting sanitation centre stage
One first at IWA’s Water and Development Congress & Exhibition was the staging of the Innovation Acceleration Forum, focused on the many opportunities for...
Recognising excellence in sanitation
Seven sanitation ‘champions’ were celebrated at the Water and Development Congress & Exhibition, as part of IWA’s Inclusive Urban Sanitation initiative. Here we share...
Pipes to pixels: the digital discussion
Digitalisation is key for the water sector, but there is plenty to debate about the path ahead, as a recent workshop heard.
Digitalisation has the...
Water’s smart tech transformation for all
Digitalisation can help transform utilities of all sizes, say speakers in a webinar hosted by IWA’s Digital Water Programme. Erika Yarrow-Soden highlights the key...
Pioneering science and technology: LET2024 – an event not to be...
With the next edition taking place soon in Essen, Germany, IWA’s Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies (LET) is the global conference...
US invests $1 billion to tackle PFAS
As part of its on-going mission to tackle emerging contaminants, such as PFAS – also known as ‘forever chemicals’ – the US has announced...
Asian SDGs thwarted by climate hazards, finds ADB-UN report
The impacts of climate change are disrupting countries in the Asia and Pacific region in their efforts to meet their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...
Shift to Renewable Polymers
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Watch this 12-minute on-demand webinar, to learn about pioneering customer cases from Cities who are shifting away from conventional fossil-based...
New study assesses impact of pollution on future water scarcity
A global assessment of future clean water quantity has found that three billion people may face water scarcity in 2050 due to pollution.
Researchers of...
Vive la différence
In December, well over 1000 delegates from around the globe came together for IWA’s seventh Water and Development Congress & Exhibition in Kigali, Rwanda....
New research identifies global decline in groundwater
Researchers have analysed the in-situ groundwater-level trends of 170,000 monitoring wells and 1693 aquifer systems in countries that encompass approximately 75% of global groundwater...
Study finds Africans fleeing drought are vulnerable to flood risk
A new study by academics from the University of Bologna in Italy and the Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science in Sweden has...
IAEA expedition to study microplastic presence in Antarctica
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched its first scientific research expedition to study microplastic presence in Antarctica, as part of its NUTEC...
