International Water Association

Tag: Digitalisation

Charting the next wave of transformation in Istanbul

Samuela Guida plots the rise of IWA’s Digital Water Summit. IWA’s Digital Water Summit has firmly established itself as the premier global B2B event dedicated...

The AI route from data blindness to data brilliance

Kala Vairavamoorthy explores how Generative AI can empower water utilities in the Global South, using data to unlock new ways of working. Across much of...

Decoding China’s digital water excellence

The China Subgroup of IWA’s Digital Water Programme organised the 2025 Digital Water Innovation Summit. Yufeng Guo, Aijie Wang, Hong Li and Dongjian Xu...

The liquid matrix

Ashwin Dhanasekar and Prabhushankar Chandrasekeran dive into the AI- and IoT-powered world of next-generation water utilities. Clean water is crucial for communities and industries, yet...

New horizons – Building a resilient water future

Janelcy Alferes will be speaking about digital water at the forthcoming Water Horizons conference. Here she talks about the challenges for the sector and...

PrimeWater – delivering EO that puts end users first and foremost

Earth Observation has become a powerful tool for water management that is transforming the way water professionals respond to water cycle challenges. Erin Jordan...

NASA’s Earth Observation project goes ‘Open Access’

NASA has announced that outputs of its OPERA Earth Observation project are now freely available. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with partners from NASA’s...

Interview: John Beaumont, Chief Digital Officer at Thames Water

You’re the company’s first Chief Digital Officer, which is a relatively new term many corporations have yet to embrace. How do you explain what...

Overcoming the FEAR factor can drive innovation

By Peter Yolles For decades, water utilities have confronted rising costs and increasingly variable supplies with slow adoption of new technologies, practices, and behaviour. While...

Profiling customers through digital technology

How new water tools reveal changes in water use with nation-wide implications. By Rob Lawson.   While the UK water industry has rightly strived to provide...