At the IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Inter-American Development Bank and FEMSA Foundation will be awarding the winners of the BID-FEMSA Award 2017. The jury has selected s...

Preparations for the technical programme for the IWA World Water Congress in Tokyo 2018 are now underway. More than 1500 authors submitted their work to the congress! On behalf of the IWA Programme Committee, we kindly request you...

The peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean has passed but the storms are not yet over. Hurricane Harvey broke rainfall records in the continental USA with its downpour severely impacting southeast Texas; Hurricane Irma, wa...

Infrequent or a lack of potable water supply has made wastewater reuse and recovery a method of choice for many across the globe. Whether it has been for hundreds of years like in Greek cities, or a new endeavor like in Dakar, Sen...

For all of us who have been working in water for the last 15 years or more, 2015 was year 1, the target year for the Millennium Development Goals. For many countries, the data showed great progress: from 1990 to 2012, 2.3 billion ...

Our challenge, as always, is to remain relevant to all, covering the entire water cycle, spanning the globe and embracing all disciplines from research to practice to policy. We are working hard to ensure that our membership has t...

Being involved in organising the 8th International Young Water Professional’s Conference has been quite a rollercoaster ride. Initially, everything seemed to be going right – we were awarded a substantial grant by South Africa...

Rapid urbanization is one of the defining global trends of our time, with both positive and negative impacts. Increasing concentrations of population create challenges to supply enough resources including food, energy and water. ...