The challenges of scaling-up water recycling More extensive use of managed recycling of water offers one of the most promising opportunities for coping with ever-growing pressures on water resources, but there are significant chal...
Countries may need to double existing capacity or risk undermining attainment of universal access to clean water and sanitation Shortages of human resources in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector will undermine the pro...
Shortages of human resources in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector will undermine the progress made by many countries over the last decades to increase access to water and sanitation. In this report, the first of its kind, the IWA provides an overarching recommendation for the development of national capacity development strategies that have high-level political buy-in with involveme...
Water’s key but complex role in development and health With water professionals gathered in Lisbon to exchange experiences on providing water and sanitation around the world, keynote speaker Hans Rosling of the Gapminder Founda...
Sanitation 21 is an important component of the global sanitation toolkit, which presents a planning framework based on international best practices. Initially developed in 2006, this updated version builds on recent experiences where good planning has formed an integral part of achieving improvements in urban sanitation. The document sets out key principles and process guidelines to help city s...
Announcing the Global Winners of the IWA 2014 Project Innovation Awards Singapore, 22.08.14 The water sector is facing unprecedented global challenges, urgent and innovative action is necessary to define new solutions to the globa...
GIZ recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Wastewater Management Authority (WMA) at Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment for the Thai-German cooperation on ‘Water and Wastewater Compan...
A solutions-finding workshop that uses a “food-water-energy nexus” approach to natural resource issues in the Amu Darya river basin in Central Asia. Film edited & produced by Augustin Chabrol.
The International Water Association Product Innovation Awards…making a splash at the Singapore International Water Week Singapore, 29.05.14 – The water sector is facing unprecedented global challenges, urgent and innovative ac...
Participants in the Nexus Dialogue Bangkok workshop identify infrastructure solutions to tackle water-food-energy challenges.
