June 17, 2021
Repeated, high-profile security incidents targeting the utilities industry, such as the attempted poisoning of a water treatment system in Florida, or the recent hack of the Colonial Pipeline, illustrate just how diverse the moder...
Regulators undoubtedly have an important role to play in creating strategies to enable companies to implement inclusive WASH services. Through IWA’s Regulating for Citywide Inclusive Sanitation initiative, many opportunities for...
June 3, 2021
Future City Flow was implemented to visualize and communicate the effects of measures undertaken and to identify target values as part of a 10 years plan, and how these could be effectively realized, within a reasonable timeframe ...
May 24, 2021
Dear colleagues and friends, We are delighted to welcome you to IWA’s 2021 Digital World Water Congress. Now is the time for us all to collaborate and work with a laser-like focus on solutions to enable benefits to be felt acros...
May 20, 2021
Future City Flow was implemented to optimize inflow to the treatment by leveraging existing tunnel storage capacity to a higher degree. Combining model information from the collection systems with site-specific level and flow vari...
May 13, 2021
In tackling our water woes, I am confident that we too have the technology to build water back better. But what we lack is the global political will to take hard policy decisions and make the investments that are needed to deliver...
May 6, 2021
Acquasuite OPIR predicts very accurately on a 15-minute interval the water demand for the upcoming two days. Based on this prediction, OPIR gives production plants in the area setpoints on how much water they have to produce and d...
April 21, 2021
The city of South Bend, Indiana, installed Xylem’s BLU-X™ Wastewater Network solution to seek to avoid flooding. This solution is a distributed real-time decision support system, consisting of smart sensors and actuator...
April 13, 2021
In March this year, UN Water, in collaboration with other UN entities responsible for SDG 6 targets, launched a report to summarise the progress towards achieving universal access to water and sanitation globally by 2030. The repo...
April 8, 2021
IWA Young Water Professionals (YWPs) and the Emerging Water Leaders Steering Committee held an online discussion attended by 68 YWPs from around the world to talk about the Future of WASH.