January 11, 2021
By Catarina Morais & Zach White of GSMA In Sub-Saharan Africa there are more unique mobile subscribers (477 million) than there are people with access to safely managed water services (275 million). The expansion of mobile con...
December 8, 2020
[For French version, please scroll down / Pour la version française, veuillez faire défiler vers le bas] One experience that lives with me to this day was the flooding we encountered during my time as a student in Maroua, north ...
A publication and a set of tools have been released as outcomes of IWA’s project on Public Participation in the Regulation of Urban Water Services. ‘Guidelines for Public Participation in the Regulation of Urban Water ...
As part of the ‘Guidelines for Public Participation in the Regulation of Urban Water Services‘, a set of tools has also been developed. ‘Tools Public Participation in the Regulation of Urban Water Services’...
SDGs
September 7, 2020
Adam Lovell started his career in the water sector over 20 years ago as a Chemist at Anglian Water and is now the Executive Director of the Water Service Association of Australia. Adam believes that the IWA Principles for Water-Wi...
September 1, 2020
Utilities are starting to adapt as they observe the first impacts of climate change on their operation… but not so many feel the urgency to contribute to reducing the magnitude of this change by reducing their own emissions. Mos...
June 5, 2020
Photo by Gustavo Quepón on Unsplash This year’s theme for World Environment Day is Time for Nature, and with COVID-19  many of us are now taking the time  to appreciate our green spaces as the monotony of lockdowns are bei...
March 6, 2020
“We cannot solve our problem with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein We’ve all heard about thinking out of the box… But it’s easier said than done. A few days ago I was pushed outside my box...
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...
SDGs
October 3, 2019
Diane D'Arras – The Future from IWA on Vimeo. President of the International Water Association, Diane D’Arras, outlines the main actors and axes that can determine the water-wise status of a city. She states that ...