Taiwanese President Ma, addressing the International Water Association’s 7th International Young Water Professional Conference in Taipei, has called on young water professionals to contribute their expertise to solving global wa...
Negotiations for an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) under the WTO have taken place this week in Geneva with the participation of 14 member states*. The current round of negotiations focuses on technologies used in the water an...
Will the 4,000 diplomats from the world’s 196 countries gathered at the COP 20 this week in Lima prioritize water in climate negotiations? The COP 20 climate talks currently taking place in Lima, Peru, offer an opportunity to pa...
A new video providing a collection of insights on opportunities and solutions for Water, Energy and Food Security has been shown at the recent Nexus Symposium which took place in Beijing. The Nexus Beijing Symposium, entitled ...
New scientific findings indicate that investing in watershed conservation is cost-effective for one in four cities worldwide A new analysis of more than 2,000 drinking sources (rivers, forests and other ecosystems from which water...
Capacity development support Against a backdrop of the water sector facing the need to attract young talent to help find and implement solutions across a diverse set of issues, IWA’s Young Water Professionals Congress programme ...
Essential foundations needed for successful water utilities Water utilities around the world vary in how they are set up, especially in terms of public or private sector ownership, but they all share management issues on which imp...
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...
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...
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...
