Australia: New groundwater study could boost farming
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water, Barnaby Joyce, has announced AUD$100,000 (US$75,000) in funding for a feasibility study into accessing deep groundwater in the...
Ireland: Irish Water to upgrade wastewater infrastructure
Veolia Ireland has secured a new contract from Irish Water for wastewater infrastructure. This contract comprises a €2.16 million upgrade of the wastewater infrastructure at County Cavan and...
China: China to integrate water and environment management
The World Bank has approved a US$9.5 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to help China increase water productivity and reduce pollution discharges in the three...
Canada: Nanaimo city inaugurates water treatment plant with new membrane technology
The city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, has inaugurated a new water treatment plant featuring General Electric’s ZeeWeed membrane technology to purify water from the...
Latin America and the Caribbean: Call for innovative water and sanitation...
The Inter-American Development Bank is issuing an open call for innovative startups working on water, sanitation, hygiene and health projects to enter its seventh Demand Solutions event. The...
Canada: Water crisis placing First Nations communities at risk
Water on land known as reserves in many indigenous communities in Ontario is not safe to drink, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has announced in a new report....
International: Sanitation improves across 13 countries
Close to 11 million people no longer practise open defecation across 13 countries, according to a new report from the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF). The results are...
International: Heineken reduces water use
Global brewer, Heineken, has outlined progress towards achieving its Brewing a Better World 2020 commitments including reducing specific water consumption in its breweries. The figures were released in the...
Oman: LG Chem signs deal with Oman desalination plant
The Sohar desalination plant in Oman has announced it will incorporate LG Chem’s ‘high rejection’ NanoH20 seawater reverse osmosis membranes. The membranes incorporate nanostructured materials and polymer technology which...
Mediterranean: Hotels reduce water consumption
Eight innovative water treatment technologies to help Mediterranean hotels reduce water consumption have proved successful in the project demonstration site in Spain. As part of the demEAUmed project,...
United States: DC Water maps lead serviced lines
Washington DC’s water utility has announced the launch of a new interactive map and other online content designed to help property owners identify the material that makes up...
Europe: Suez heads up new urban resilience project
In May, Suez, with other partners, launched the €8 million RESCCUE urban resilience project that will develop and implement resilience strategies that extend beyond urban drainage systems to...
Singapore: Groundwater monitoring to be expanded
PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, is planning to expand its groundwater monitoring network. It will be calling two tenders over the next few months for the installation of...
Peter Joo Hee Ng, Chief Executive of PUB, Singapore’s national water...
A combination of maximising rainwater collection, along with intensive water reuse and use of desalination, has made Singapore a global leader as far as...
China turns to carbon-neutral treatment plants
By Xiaodi Hao and Rowan Kohll
In Zhejiang province on China’s east coast, people pride themselves on tenacity and ingenuity. Both qualities appear to have...
Why clean energy is a water conservation strategy
A greener grid that slashes emissions may also be 40% less thirsty, boosting local resilience while meeting international climate and SDG commitments
By Kate Zerrenner*
Recent...
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...
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,...
Two US companies win 2016 China BlueTech Awards
Industrial wastewater specialist, OriginClear, and stormwater company, PaveDrain have won the first ever China BlueTech Awards. The innovation shown by the two US companies...
Californian ranch tests rice irrigation project
The first sustainable farming initiative, leveraging Israel’s research and innovation in water technology to reduce rice-crop water use, will begin this year at Conaway Ranch in...
