Development
September 20, 2018
What is the legal and regulatory framework that is most conducive to institution building? What are the challenges of expanding water and sanitation from major urban centres into secondary towns and beyond? What criteria apply to ...
September 19, 2018
  The Action Agenda is a holistic approach recognising the water basin as a system advocating equitable allocations, increased efficiencies and connectivity across the respective basin.   Launch: 19 September 2018 at Tok...
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 resources management. This includes the Drivers for Action such as extreme events, declining water quality, and water availability; followed by the Pathways to Action thr...
September 19, 2018
LAUNCH Thursday 20 September 2018, 09:45 – 10:30, IWA Pavilion • The roadmap is the first guide of its kind to demonstrate a practical approach towards low-carbon, holistic and sustainable urban water management. • Pilot uti...
EnvironmentIndustryUrbanisation
September 18, 2018
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!
September 18, 2018
2018 IWA Project Innovation Awards 18 Winners in six Award Categories Cranfield University wins Kiran and Pallavi Patel Grand Innovation Award   Tokyo, Japan, 17 September 2018. At the 2018 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibiti...
September 18, 2018
Increasing numbers of cities worldwide risk reaching Day Zero, with taps running dry, and exacerbating the effects of climate change, unless they start actively managing and improving the resilience of their entire water basins, w...
September 18, 2018
  Sudhir Murthy and Enrique Cabrera elected new IWA Vice-Presidents   Tokyo, Japan, 16 September 2018. The IWA Governing Assembly has elected two new Vice-Presidents on the eve of the 2018 IWA World Water Congress & ...
September 17, 2018
Launch: Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 12:50-13:10 | IWA Stand 115 at the Exhibition Area Tokyo, Japan, 18 September 2018. For the progressive realization of the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation to be achieved to ...
September 17, 2018
Edamame, rice and growing meat and dairy sector most at risk Tokyo, 17 September 2018: Research into how increasing water scarcity and drought may impact the Japanese economy (1) was released by R2Water (2) and FutureWater (3) at ...