Tag: freshwater

Ahead of IWA’s Conference on Rainwater Harvesting & Management on 1-6 September, Mooyoung Han highlights the next evolution of WHO rainwater guidance. In June 2026...

Tripti Kharel, Suman Prasad Sharma, Sanjeev Bickram Rana and Mandira Singh Shrestha highlight the dynamics and challenges of Nepal’s rich water resources. Geographically, Nepal lies...

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,...

Michelle H. Williams explains how Knowledge and Innovative Communities can forge a holistic approach to water management. Europe is faced with a myriad of complex...

A new paper from the World Resources Institute (WRI), Parched Power: Water Demands, Risks and Opportunities for India’s Power Sector, analyses all of India’s...

Why North American cities must thin overgrown forests to improve water supplies. By Helen Poulos As the global freshwater deficit grows, a survey of 1,000 “environmental...

By Katharine Cross* Rapid urbanisation is one of the defining global trends of our time, with both positive and negative impacts. Increasing concentrations of population create...

By Katherine Cross* Satellites have a long history, with the American writer, Edward Everett Hale, writing speculative fiction containing the first known depiction of an...

By Tatiana Gallego-Lizon* Urbanisation has transformed Asia’s economies. But it has also generated environmental degradation and a rising demand for resources. Now comes the volatile flux...

Much as aquaculture has eclipsed wild fisheries, salt-tolerant plants could close the gap between escalating hunger and limited freshwater supplies By James Workman The ancients annihilated...