Regional Challenges and Opportunities for Building Drought and Climate Resilience for Farmers, Cities, and Villages South Asia—the world’s fastest growing region—is the largest abstractor of groundwater; it pumps nearly a th...
IWA needs to address the changing needs of its young members, attracting and empowering them as they are considered to be the Emerging Water Leaders. The Emerging Water Leaders (previously known as the Young Water Professionals) ...
The lack of drinking water, worsened by climate change, is a major challenge for humanity. More than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for some or all their of their daily water needs. Currently 150 cou...
The global shortage of skilled professionals in the water sector is a major industry challenge, particularly in an era of growing water scarcity and increasing demand for water from agriculture, industry and domestic consumption. ...
In order to recognize the importance of interdisciplinary research at the interface of microbial ecology and water/wastewater treatment the IWA/ISME Bio Cluster has created the ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award. This prestigious prize...
The WASH sector in developing countries requires an enormous effort if it is to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6), to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation...
IWA needs to address the changing needs of its young members, attracting and empowering
Thailand’s Songkran New Year Festival celebrations were typically wild and wet this year, with Bangkok’s streets becoming an enormous water fight. Symbolically, Songkran marks the end of the dry season and the start of the rai...
Despite rumors to the contrary, the need to improve the effluent quality of wastewater treatment plants still engages the interest of the scientific community. Although wastewater treatment plants are designed with the main aim of...
The World Health Organisation and its partners have set guideline values and health-based targets, helping define what concentration of hazardous chemicals and pathogens constitutes a ‘safe’ concentration for human con...
