Shortages of human resources in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector will undermine the progress made by many countries over the last decades to increase access to water and sanitation. In this report, the first of its...

Water’s key but complex role in development and health With water professionals gathered in Lisbon to exchange experiences on providing water and sanitation around the world, keynote speaker Hans Rosling of the Gapminder Founda...

My colleague, Ganesh, went to his first Stockholm World Water Week in 1992. He worked for a small NGO and stayed in a tent. Every morning he set his alarm, got dressed, got out of the tent in his suit, locked the tent and made his...

During the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition (Lisbon, 21 -26 September), over 5000 of the world’s leading water professionals from over 90 countries will meet to debate and plan for the future of water management. The Ha...