International Water Association

Tag: capacity building

Filling the skills gap

Greater priority should be given to building a sustainable, skilled water and sanitation workforce, argues Kirsten de Vette. It is widely agreed that it will...

Danube invests in human capacity for cleaner water

New partnerships and personnel appointments have given utilities a bigger role in the management of the river Danube. By James Workman It is not the deepest,...

The truth of inconvenience: why disrupt water management in a time...

By Miharu Hirano* On 1 August 2015, Japan's national water day, 32 households in a neighbourhood of Matsue city, near beautiful Lake Shinji, discovered they were...

Flooding threatening 4.2 million people on Caribbean and Pacific islands

A new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) estimates that 4.2 million people in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean and...