Urbanisation

Urbanisation

Cities consume 75% of the world’s natural resources and 80% of the global energy supply.

By 2050, roughly 6.4 billion people will live in a city, and demand for water will have increased by 55 percent. Cities power economic development and water security can seriously undermine this. Cities need to take steps to connect to their basins and enable water management institutions to make investments to secure water quantity and quality and mitigate flood risks.

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Regulating for Citywide Inclusive Sanitation

Rallying service providers and regulators for joint action...

Water Safety Planning

Humanity cannot thrive and survive without water. Cities cannot function without water. A simple, but powerful reality. ...

Sanitation for and by Nature

Guidance on evidence-based practices for improved sanitation, water security and ecological health, with a focus on natu...

New Urban Agenda

How to Respond to the Commitments and Call for Action of the New Urban Agenda? The New Urban Agenda (NUA) is the outc...

Water-Wise Cities

Humanity cannot thrive and survive without water. Cities cannot function without water. A simple, but powerful reality. ...

Blog Posts

Latest opinions and insights relevant to the water sector

EnergyTechnologyUrbanisation
April 13, 2022
Bringing reuse water to the mainstream
Population growth, urbanization and persistent drought are straining water resources in various regions around the world, while pollution and contamination comp...
AfricaAsia-PacificDevelopmentHealthSDGsUrbanisation
October 14, 2021
Handwashing is a human right
To mark Global Handwashing Day on 15 October, Léo Heller, former UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, writes about the human righ...
IndustrySDGsSocietyUrbanisation
September 30, 2020
Water Consuming Industries & Water Stewar...
Water Stewardship: License to operate? After 200 years of industrialisation where water was used rather thoughtlessly and our natural resources and environment ...
Urbanisation
March 6, 2020
Nature for cities or cities for nature?
“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...

News / Events

SanitationSDGsUrbanisation
March 22, 2022
Opportunities for action on urban water for Wo...
Around the world, there remains a great disparity in many people’s access to clean water and basic sanitation. World Water Day brings attention to these ever-...
GovernanceSDGsUrbanisation
October 19, 2021
CWIS Call to Action now available in Portugues...
The Regulating for Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Call to Action is now available in Czech and Portuguese. For more information, please visit the CWIS project pa...
Event Asia-PacificUrbanisation
17 Apr - 21 Apr 2022 Singapore/Singapore
Singapore International Water Week 2022
17 Apr 2022 12:00:00 21 Apr 2022 18:00:00 Europe/London Singapore International Water Week 2022 IWA Event Singapore - Singapore International Water Association contact@iwa.net
Climate changeEnvironmentMembershipUrbanisation
January 25, 2021
IWAP announces relaunch of two journals
In January 2021 the IWA Publishing team relaunched two of its titles, with new branding, aims and scopes, and editorial teams. The Journal of Water Reuse and De...

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