The water sector faces many challenges. None is greater, or with greater potential for impact, than achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6, on water and sanitation. This includes targets to ensure universal, equitable and sustai...
Rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest demographic shifts humanity has ever experienced, with the biggest impacts being felt by cities in developing and emerging economies. The unprecedented speed of change is creating enormous...
Dear Colleagues, As chair of the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2018, Tokyo, it is my honor to announce this congress. I sincerely hope that you will join us at the congress, and look forward to welcoming you and your...
2030 timeline to solve all major water challenges Solving global water challenges is now recognised as one of the top priorities for humankind. The recently adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with their 169 measurable targ...
This report is now in it’s twelfth edition, and this year contains data from 40 countries and 170 cities. For the first time we have been able to gather data from all five continents, a landmark as the report aims to enable high...
The new round of climate change negotiations taking place at the COP22 in Morocco this week brings a new opportunity to address the critical issues of water scarcity and drought. Today, 4 billion people are impacted by severe wate...
Dreampipe II launched by Ideas to Impact programme DFID makes up to £1,000,000 of cash prizes available to innovators in the sector. Dreampipe II launched at the International Water Association Water Ideas 2016 Conference in Bolo...
IWA President 2016 from IWA on Vimeo. A civil engineer for nearly forty years, d’Arras is becoming President of the world’s largest international association of water professionals at a time of great challenges, changes and op...
Addressing the global water challenge demands imaginative approaches and the adoption of new paradigms and technologies.
As the ideas for tackling water shortages dwindle, governments are being encouraged to seek advice from young people to catalyse new thinking in management approaches and research areas. The Austrian Ministry of Environment and Wa...
