The Action Agenda for Basin Connected Cities outlines the rationale for urban stakeholders to lead the way in realising their role as water stewards and the different pathways and activities towards achieving integrated water r...
Highlights and themes of the day: Water professionals discussed resilience and innovation with a focus on the Japanese experience. The day ended with the gala ceremony for the Project Innovation Awards – check the winners!
The UN reports that the world is currently not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6 by 2030. What’s your assessment? The challenge with SDG 6 is that it is not a direct continuation of the Millennium Development Goals...
Datasets in the Flood and Drought Portal In my previous blog, I briefly introduced the Flood and Drought Portal (http://www.flooddroughtmonitor.com/), and indicated that the portal has tools that can be used individually or collec...
Fortunately, Tokyo has been unaffected by the bad weather in Japan. Most of the IWA team has already arrived and we are looking forward welcoming you. On September 9th, there was an earthquake in Hokkaido which is almost 1,000 km ...
The International Water Association is a strong and thriving global organisation that continues to deliver on its vision of a sustainable, water-wise world. Shaping our water future, the International Water Association is more re...
For the past year I’ve had the privilege of managing a water research project in one of the most northern communities in Canada, Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), Nunavut. This community is located above the Arctic Circle and is one of...
The BioCluster Compendium presents an overview of ground-breaking developments and novel technologies in microbial ecology, and their potential application in solving issues of sustainability, environmental quality, dwindling reso...
How can regulatory authorities enable resilience and sustainable development? The answer is nature Regulators continue to have an important role in world advancements towards delivery across the Sustainable Development Goals (GLAA...
Faced with a fast rate of urbanisation and population growth, national and local governments are finding it difficult to provide essential services like safe drinking water and sanitation, especially in the socioeconomic context o...
