Tag: sanitation
Leaving no-one behind
With women and girls disproportionately affected by poor water and sanitation services, Professor Juliet Willetts, winner of IWA’s Gender Diversity in Water Award, discusses...
Catalysing investments – Innovative financing for sanitation
IWA is running quarterly sanitation dialogues throughout 2025 to advance learning and accelerate progress in sanitation. Florence Laker explains.
Africa’s urban population is rapidly expanding...
Building water security in the Andes of Bolivia
Paula Cecilia Soto Ríos and Paola Andrea Alvizuri Tintaya describe Bolivia’s pathway to water resilience in the face of climate change and its impact...
New WHO/UNICEF report finds major inequalities in WASH services
A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reveals that major gaps still exist in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene...
Brown gold rush – unleashing sanitation’s rich potential
Realising the potential for waste to be transformed into a resource provides great opportunities to drive sustainable sanitation initiatives. Lyla Mehta, Andrés Hueso González,...
The importance of capacity building
Capacity is an essential factor in the delivery of safe, sustainable Inclusive Urban Sanitation (IUS), without which progress can be hampered and vital efficiencies...
Citywide Inclusive Sanitation: Consolidation of sectoral efforts
Abishek S Narayan, a member of IWA’s Inclusive Urban Sanitation Task Force, reflects on the ‘state of the art’ of the CWIS approach, following...
World Bank report quantifies WASH funding gap
An annual shortfall of between $131.4bn and $140.8bn must be filled if the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for universal access to safe water...
Inclusive urban sanitation – securing dignity for all
IWA’s Inclusive Urban Sanitation initiative seeks to shift the agenda on sanitation in towns and cities around the world. Members of the initiative’s Advisory...
New masters programme launched for sanitation professionals
The unemployed may complain that their ‘career is in the toilet’ but an elite young and highly-skilled workforce could transform that expression into a...
