Sikandar Meeranaik is the 2019 recipient of the IWA Water and Development Award for Practice. Sikandar founded the Sankalpa Rural Development Society in 2008 to assist the farmers in the rural areas of India. During the Developmen...
Dr Miriam Otoo was the 2019 recipient of the IWA Water and Development Award for Research. Her hope is to see increased investments in her area of research to encourage its adoption by different municipalities into the development...
The Hague, Netherlands, 13 December 2019 – The International Water Association and Cranfield University have created fifteen Masters Scholarships, called the IWA Excellence Scholarships, which will develop the skills and experti...
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...
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...
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 4 December 2019. The first World Water Loss Day was marked today with a special event held during the International Water Association’s 2019 Water and Development Congress & Exhibition, drawing attention ...
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...
