After many years of attending IWA events, my involvement at IWA’s 6th Water and Development Congress in Colombo, Sri Lanka two weeks ago took a different turn. Being part of the Organising Committee of the Emerging Water L...
The urbanisation trend is an undeniable fact worldwide in large and small cities all over the globe. Water supply and sanitation are two of the most fundamental pillars for the sustainability of city inhabitants. Many cities in Ce...
The IWA Digital Water Summit, with its next edition in November 2023, is designed to be the reference in digitalisation for the global water sector. Targeting all stakeholders involved in the water sector digitalisation, the Summi...
Recounting the experiences shared by my colleagues from the Young Water Professionals community about the 2017 World Water And Development Congress & Exhibition in Buenos Aires – Argentina, made me yearn to have an experien...
Pay Drechsel delivered a keynote at the 2019 #DevelopmentCongress about Resource Recovery and Reuse and maintained that if the agriculture sector could increase it’s water use efficiency, 10% of the recovered water could sol...
Rosie Wheen, Chief Executive of WaterAid Australia, remarked that storytelling is the way to help us see the reality others face but also shows us how we can do something about it. Storytelling, Rosie added, highlights how basic w...
Thomas Kunetz, President of Water Environment Federation, spoke about the importance seeing human waste as a resource; as fertiliser and as a source of energy. He stated that we should move towards decentralised sanitation where t...
I see it…the headline grabs me – just do it…why not – the International Water Association – seemingly one of the biggest organisations in the world, supporting all aspects of sustainable water management ...
Utility management in emerging economies from IWA on Vimeo. Dr Silver Mugisha details the mixture of problems that utilities in emerging economies are facing. Backed by case studies carried out on the National Water and Sewerage C...
Gender Equity in water and sanitation from IWA on Vimeo. Madhu Krishna was the Opening Keynote speaker of Day 2 at the 2019 #DevelopmentCongress. She gave an address Gender equity in the water and sanitation sector. Madhu affirmed...
