AquaRating focuses on the challenges that water and sanitation utilities face in a comprehensive way, evaluating their performance through indicators and management practices, establishing an international standard; and relying on...
The International Water Association’s (IWA) Resource Recovery Cluster: Best Practice Award 2019 has been awarded to a consortium of the Technische Universität Berlin, DECHEMA, the DVGW-Forschungsstelle am EBI des KIT, Fraunhofe...
Being part of an IWA Specialist Group offers Young Water Professionals (YWP) the possibility to function in an environment they often do not come into contact with as junior employees, or even as water professionals in general. Th...
Drainage channels built in early years in Hong Kong were designed primarily for flood protection purpose with less considerations on environmental protection or ecological conservation. To address the impacts of global climate cha...
Like many public water distribution networks in the world, water utilities in Vietnam are confronted with limited funding, yet high demand for modernising infrastructure. Aging public water infrastructure that has often not been u...
A third phase is just being completed at the Nimr Water Treatment Plant in Oman, expanding what is already the largest industrial constructed wetland facility in the world. The plant provides an alternative solution to the issue o...
Researchers have found that plastic pellets can be a home for harmful pathogens to grow. These pellets were found on popular beaches in Scotland, causing beach managers to give more focus to the health and safety of the beach-goer...
What are Nature-based Solutions (NBS) and do we understand them? There are multiple definitions of NBS but I will use the definition given by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): NBS are defined as “actions...
Developing countries possess a unique opportunity to incorporate new and sustainable practices into their development in order to prevent the global challenges that exist today. Nature-based Solutions are just one set of flexible ...
Nominations Deadline Extended to 15 August 2019 Do you know of an innovation in water that has led to demonstrable impact? Nominate it now for the IWA Development Awards 2019. Due to the many requests for an extension, the dea...
