Rand Water announced 2016 Project Innovation Grand Award Winner
The International Water Association (IWA) has awarded Rand Water from South Africa the Project Innovation Award–Grand Award. A non-profit public utility based in Gauteng,...
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...
IWA launches Principles for Water Wise Cities
At the World Water Congress and Exhibition in Brisbane today, the International Water Association launched the Principles for Water Wise Cities, with a call...
Clinton & Trump on “Current” Affairs
A Presidential prognosis on how each frames rivers and water in the global development agenda
By Laura Turley
Water and development professionals may wonder What U.S....
Brisbane’s journey to become a water-wise city
Water powers Australia’s New World City, which is home to more than one million people and is one of the fastest growing regions in...
Can the SDGs reverse the decline in water quality?
The Sustainable Development Goals are a new focus for restoring water quality and river ecosystems
By Ger Bergkamp, IWA Executive Director
Governments around the world have...
Whisky distillery turning co-products into renewable energy
After just one year of operation, beverage company, Diageo’s on-site biogas plant at Glendullan, Scotland is turning 1,000 m3 of malt whisky distillery co-products...
Energy–water–food nexus a top uncertainty issue, says new report
A new report released by the World Energy Council, The Road to Resilience: Financing Resilient Energy Infrastructure, has highlighted how the interdependencies, and sometimes...
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...
Veolia’s BioThelys™: a solution to enhance biosolids and contribute to the...
We may be in a period of witnessing the development of renewable energies but some of them, such as solar energy or wind power,...
WssTP 2016 Water Innovation SMEs Awards winners announced
The winners of the third edition of WssTP (Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform) Water Innovation SMEs Awards were announced at the Water Innovation...
How sunlight can provide low-cost access to clean water
Water can be disinfected if left for as little as six hours in intense sunlight, yet many living in the world’s poorest countries do...
Wastewater treatment process uses gravity to cut energy use
A newly patented submerged aerated filtration (SAF) configuration for wastewater treatment, developed by UK-company WPL, can cut energy use by 40 percent and be...
Domestic Insecurity: The next US President inherits a nation with troubled...
Droughts. Deluge. Hurricanes. Mudslides. Ice Storms. Americans are getting to know extreme hydrological events. Republican’s nominated Donald Trump and Democrats chose Hillary Clinton, but...
Bolivia to boost farm productivity through irrigation improvements
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a loan of US$158.4 million to improve small farmers’ income in Bolivia’s rural areas.
“Expanding irrigated agriculture has...
Bringing Order from Statistical Overload
Information experts harness rising flood of accessible water data
*Fourth interview in Aqua-Statisticians: A five part series
Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya: Given universal access to satellite technology and...
The problem with experts
The International Water Association (IWA) hosts forty-nine ‘specialist groups’ through which exceptional researchers and practitioners generate cutting edge solutions. The organisation -as demonstrated throughout this magazine – seeks out...
Career site for water professionals comes of age
For several years, Josh Newton has been managing an informal listserv that lets the restless water professional–or those who want to become one–know where the...
Ongoing conflicts and drought exacerbate food needs, says new FAO report
Drought linked to El Niño and civil conflict have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37 from...
New collaboration to advance sustainable water reuse in agriculture
The WateReuse Association, Water Environment & Reuse Foundation, and Pentair, a leader in creating sustainable water solutions, have come together to help advance the development of...
