Photo: © Sanitation and Water for All. Read summary in Spanish here IWA at the Sanitation and Water for All Sector Ministers’ Meeting, San José, Costa Rica Sanitation and Water for All is a global partnership of governme...
How to bridge the financial gap in the WASH sector by helping water utilities become creditworthy? Annually, it has been estimated that approximately 114 billion USD must be spent in the WASH sector if the dedicated water goal, th...
Copenhagen is a northern harbour city which has experienced a number of severe rainfall events, namely cloudbursts, with the largest pouring down in July 2011. The damages amounted to around 1 billion US dollars, and climate proje...
The International Water Association (IWA) and the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 1 April 2019 to strengthen the professional capacity of the water and sanitation sector in India, and ...
Change is all around us. Climate change, population growth, urbanisation and resource depletion are the major global challenges facing humankind, and these issues are all most prevalent in our cities. With one in four large cities...
Our grandparents focused their lives on making sure they had enough to live; our parents had the chance to start their lives with not much, and grow into a more and more comfortable life; we’re lucky to have been born to a comfo...
Municipal and industrial water treatment is poised to enter an era of significant change, with key regulatory updates on the horizon and cost pressures putting an increasingly tight squeeze on aging infrastructure and operating ex...
As countries across the world increasingly experience water scarcity, the ‘water-is-the-new-oil’ adage has come to the fore thousand times. So too has ‘data-is-the-new-oil’, this time to reflect the immense commercial valu...
UCLA professor Eric Hoek holds a vial of nanoparticles and a piece of the revolutionary desalination membrane he helped develop. Photo: Don Liebig/UCLA About 9 years ago, on 20 April 2010, the BP DeepWater Horizon oil rig e...
Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy, IWA Executive Director, addresses the theme of the United Nations World Water Day: “Leaving no one behind”.