December 20, 2019
IWA has published 45 blogs throughout 2019 and they have altogether garnered an impressive 25K views. We are grateful for the contributions from our bloggers and for our readers. Thanks to you, the IWA blog has become a reference ...
Digitalisation
December 20, 2019
IWA Vice President, Enrique Cabrera, is a member of the IWA Digital Water Programme Committee. In the upcoming Digital Water Summit, held in Bilbao Spain from 27 – 30 April 2020, he mentioned that utilities will have the opp...
Development
December 20, 2019
Valerie Naidoo is the Executive Manager of Business Development and Innovations at the Water Research Commission in South Africa. She gave a keynote address on “Innovation to overcome global water challenges”. In this ...
Development
December 20, 2019
Sikandar Meeranaik is the 2019 recipient of the IWA Water and Development Award for Practice. Sikandar founded the Sankalpa Rural Development Society in 2008 to assist the farmers in the rural areas of India. During the Developmen...
Development
December 19, 2019
Dr Miriam Otoo was the 2019 recipient of the IWA Water and Development Award for Research. Her hope is to see increased investments in her area of research to encourage its adoption by different municipalities into the development...
December 17, 2019
World Water Camp 2020 is a week of unique educational experiences for a group of 50 students from around the world. Life as we know it today, could not have developed without water. Water. The elixir of life. Who would have though...
December 16, 2019
After many years of attending IWA events, my involvement at IWA’s 6th Water and Development Congress in Colombo, Sri Lanka  two weeks ago took a different turn. Being part of the Organising Committee of the Emerging Water L...
The urbanisation trend is an undeniable fact worldwide in large and small cities all over the globe. Water supply and sanitation are two of the most fundamental pillars for the sustainability of city inhabitants. Many cities in Ce...
Digitalisation
December 10, 2019
The IWA Digital Water Summit, with its next edition in November 2023, is designed to be the reference in digitalisation for the global water sector. Targeting all stakeholders involved in the water sector digitalisation, the Summi...
December 9, 2019
Recounting the experiences shared by my colleagues from the Young Water Professionals community about the 2017 World Water And Development Congress & Exhibition in Buenos Aires – Argentina, made me yearn to have an experien...