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...

Brine – building the blocks to a successful circular economy

Brine valorization is being researched as a potential waste product from desalination that can be used as a concrete accelerator for the 3D printing...

Striving for desalination’s gold sustainability standard

Nikolay Voutchkov, who heads a world-leading innovation centre that is breaking new boundaries in desalination, spoke at last year's IWA LET conference. With the...

Utilities as engines for climate action

Utilities, including city departments charged with water-related responsibilities, are at the heart of urban life. Toronto Water (page 30) and the Ruhrverband (page 38)...

Kigali 2023 – a platform for participation and progress

IWA’s Water and Development Congress & Exhibition in December in Rwanda set a new benchmark as a practical water and sanitation platform by and...

Pathways to energy neutrality: a German case study of the Ruhrverband

Germany’s Ruhrverband is taking a pioneering role in sustainable utility operations. Norbert Jardin describes how the co-organiser of next year’s IWA LET conference succeeded...

Turning the tide on urban sanitation

In the previous issue, members of the Advisory Board of IWA’s Inclusive Urban Sanitation initiative set out their perspectives. Juliet Willetts picks up the...

WE-ACT – Climate-smart water allocation

Milica Velimirović describes an international project that is drawing together leading experts with the aim of developing mechanisms for the delivery of equitable water...

Nanotechnology on the agenda

Originally from Korea, Yale University Professor Jaehong Kim gave a plenary keynote at the IWA Leading Edge conference held there in May/June 2023 in...

ADB’s collaborative contracts for O&M

The Asian Development Bank is drafting an innovative contract framework to support sustainable and secure water systems for people in the Asia and Pacific...

Measure, measure, measure – the data key to sanitation success

IWA held a webinar on how data influences the delivery of sanitation services to those most in need. Erika Yarrow-Soden highlights the key messages. On...

A decade of extremes

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration punctuated the close of 2023 with the second...

How sewage surveillance lit Hong Kong’s pandemic path

Dr Samuel HK Chui explains how using wastewater surveillance in Hong Kong to help manage the spread of COVID-19 was like driving with the...

Sanitation: time for a change of tactics

A focus on conventional, centralised systems has failed to deliver adequate access to sanitation. Kala Vairavamoorthy makes the case for a change of tactics. The...

Countdown to Kigali

The 2023 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition is approaching fast and will help advance options for low- and middle-income countries. Erika Yarrow-Soden...

Water’s AI and machine learning opportunities

With the latest IWA Digital Water Summit taking place in November, Prabhushankar Chandrasekeran explains why AI and machine learning are essential tools for the...

Focused on the future – Basel Wastewater Treatment Facility expands and...

Brought to you by Endress + Hauser The Basel Wastewater Treatment Facility (ARA) has been in operation since 1982. After 40 years, the plant is...

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...

Climate smart utilities – China rises to the carbon challenge

Showcasing five Chinese cases among the global utilities recognised by IWA’s Climate Smart Utilities Initiative. IWA’s Climate Smart Utilities Recognition Programme seeks to inspire water,...

Water science and sustainability

We talk of water having a role to play in all of the SDGs. That role may not be so strong in all cases,...