March 11, 2020
In light of on-going development of the global spread of COVID-19, a number of IWA events have been rescheduled.   The 2020 IWA Water and Industry is initiated to provide a knowledge sharing platform on new advances related t...
SDGs
February 18, 2020
Director of Planning at the Greater Copenhagen Utility, Brian Jansen, gives a very brief overview of some of the Technical Tours being offered at the 2021 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. The tours...
December 17, 2019
World Water Camp 2020 is a week of unique educational experiences for a group of 50 students from around the world. Life as we know it today, could not have developed without water. Water. The elixir of life. Who would have though...
October 4, 2019
04 October 2019, Lisbon, Portugal – Today the International Water Association elected Mr. Tom Mollenkopf as President-elect of the Association for the period October 2020 until August 2022. He will take office at the end of the ...
September 14, 2019
Under the theme “Resilience and sustainability – From science to practice and policy” the 2018 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition gathered nearly 10,000 water professionals from utilities, academia, private compan...
September 13, 2019
I was recently asked to present on the current and future challenges for a water resources manager to address. We have seen a great deal of change and progress in how we plan for water resources in England over the last decade. Th...
April 23, 2019
There is always bad news with Cyber security and rarely any good. This blog will try to be different, although we will start with the bad, but we hope to reinforce and reassure with some good news. We will examine the context of c...
Climate change
April 10, 2019
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...
March 3, 2019
Gavà becomes the first city in Spain, and number thirty in the world, to take the first step to become a water-wise city. The signing of the Principles for Water-Wise Cities of the International Water Association (IWA) places Gav...
February 18, 2019
Phosphorus is essential to human life and vital for food production. Increasing attention has been paid to the development of phosphorus refinery technology that can recover phosphorus from secondary resources, including sewage sl...