International Water Association

Tag: Digitalisation

ASPIRE – driving innovation

Marion Savill reports on the recent 10th IWA ASPIRE Conference, held in New Zealand. We were thrilled to welcome a record 2253 delegates and exhibitors,...

How can machine learning improve data quality assurance?

Karen Schulz, one of the authors of a recent paper on the use of machine learning to improve sensor quality control, published in IWA...

Charting the next wave of transformation in Istanbul

IWA's next Digital Water Summit will take place in Istanbul on 24-26 November. Samuela Guida plots the rise of the Summit. IWA’s Digital Water Summit...

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...