Floods and storms are responsible for almost three-quarters of climate disasters. Yet, all around the world, resilience to climate shocks does not get as much attention as the “net zero” agenda.
Professor David Sedlak of UC Berkeley and author of Water 4.0 shares his perspective on the next path for water management.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
