The latest UN data estimates that around 3.6 billion people – almost half the global population – live in areas that are potentially water-scarce at least one month per year. World Bank data projects that by 2050, popu...
The plastic problem and the toll it has taken on the world’s ocean ecosphere has been well documented. There are no lack of distressing images shown in the news of the seas strewn with plastic waste, and of sea animals suffocati...
With increasing population and the increasing impacts of climate change around the world, the delivery of clean water and sanitation services by utilities have become more indispensable and more challenging. A situation which has ...
The FAMAE foundation has announced the six winners of its Precious Water innovation competition, including the result of its International Water Association Prize. The competition, backed by a €2 million endowment, drew some 300...
Call for Nominations is open until 15 July 2019 The IWA Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) is now calling for nominations for the Ardern-Lockett Award 2019 and IWA MEWE Early Career Researcher Awar...
Master Lecture: How to close the nutrients loop by recycling phosphorus from wastewater streams? from IWA on Vimeo.
Call for Nominations is now open IWA Resource Recovery Cluster: Best Practice Award 2019 The Hague, Netherlands, 21 May 2019. IWA is now calling for nominations for the IWA Resource Recovery Cluster: Best Practice Award 2...
July 1982, a young Italian girl dives for the 8th time from a rock of the Enfola beach in the crystal clear water of Elba, the protected island of the Tuscan archipelago. To catch her breath she decides to lie on the surface. En...
The success of the water sector in providing clean drinking water at customer’s taps, keeping sources of water pollution at bay, and minimising water losses is no mean feat. This is particularly true when we consider that the se...
Photo: Jacob Amengor (second from left), after being awarded the 2018 IWA Young Water Professionals Award at the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. Integrated collaboration of multidisciplinary teams is fun...
