The water sector is increasingly being impacted by climate change, it also contributes up to 10 percent of global carbon emissions from its energy consumption, as well as other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide and methane from wastewater systems.
WaCCliM (the Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Change) is a project that defines a road map for water utilities and guides them towards energy and carbon neutrality.
IWA
Water underpins every aspect of human and environmental existence. The severe water challenges facing the world today require an unprecedented global response. IWA members and staff are situated in more than 140 countries worldwide, forming the large...
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Paula Kehoe February 7, 2023
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission provides top quality drinking water and wastewater services to the City and County of San Francisco, wholesales wa...
Kambiri Cox March 20, 2019
Leaving No One Behind This year, the UN’s World Water Day on 22 March 2019 theme is “Leaving no one behind”, considering groups whose access to w...
Diane Vande Hei May 26, 2015
It’s no secret that the view from ground level is often significantly different from the 50,000-foot perspective. For water and wastewater utility managers ar...