Beating hunger vital to sustainable development agenda
Food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are key to achieving the entire set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, FAO Director- General José...
‘Waterman of India’ receives Stockholm water prize
Rajendra Singh has received the Stockholm Water Prize for his innovative water restoration efforts and improvement of water security in rural India, which has...
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...
IHG to partner with Water Footprint Network on water stewardship programme
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a global hotel company, has announced the appointment of global wateruse experts, the Water Footprint Network, to develop a worldwide...
Advice from on high
Islamic and Catholic leaders have made pronouncements on the right to clean water with a powerful ethical message to billions of followers. How should...
Time to make the bureaucrats accountable
We need proper incentives and accountability if we expect managers to deliver on the new water development goal
By David Zetland*
The UN has descended from...
Why water insecurity is changing our profession
A new viral online application lets you calculate the odds that your career will be automated. It’s an unnervingly existential tool: type in ‘occupation’...
A new path to peace: the Red Sea-Dead Sea conveyance
As Jordan, Israel and Palestine move forward with the Red Sea-Dead Sea water conveyance project–the first major peace process project since the 1994 Peace...
‘Magic’ book can purify water
A book whose pages are made with bacteria killing metal nanoparticles could provide safe drinking water to millions it was revealed during the 250th...