June 11, 2019
IWA President, Diane d’Arras, jury of the FAMAE PRECIOUS WATER competition, unboxes the winner Hydrao shower head. The FAMAE Foundation launched the PRECIOUS WATER competition in order to support international innovation to ...
June 11, 2019
Water and wastewater utilities must embrace digital solutions. There is really no alternative. “Digital water is already here” is the clear message after interviewing utility executives and leading experts from around the glob...
June 10, 2019
The latest UN data estimates that around 3.6 billion people – almost half the global population – live in areas that are potentially water-scarce at least one month per year. World Bank data projects that by 2050, popu...
The plastic problem and the toll it has taken on the world’s ocean ecosphere has been well documented. There are no lack of distressing images shown in the news of the seas strewn with plastic waste, and of sea animals suffocati...
June 7, 2019
With increasing population and the increasing impacts of climate change around the world, the delivery of clean water and sanitation services by utilities have become more indispensable and more challenging. A situation which has ...
June 3, 2019
The FAMAE foundation has announced the six winners of its Precious Water innovation competition, including the result of its International Water Association Prize. The competition, backed by a €2 million endowment, drew some 300...
May 27, 2019
Call for Nominations is open until 15 July 2019 The IWA Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) is now calling for nominations for the Ardern-Lockett Award 2019 and IWA MEWE Early Career Researcher Awar...
May 21, 2019
Master Lecture: How to close the nutrients loop by recycling phosphorus from wastewater streams? from IWA on Vimeo.
May 21, 2019
Call for Nominations is now open IWA Resource Recovery Cluster: Best Practice Award 2019   The Hague, Netherlands, 21 May 2019. IWA is now calling for nominations for the IWA Resource Recovery Cluster: Best Practice Award 2...
July 1982, a young Italian girl dives for the 8th time from a rock of the Enfola beach in the crystal clear water of  Elba, the protected island of the Tuscan archipelago. To catch her breath she decides to lie on the surface. En...