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June 21, 2016
Ensuring water and sanitation services for all depends on securing appropriate financing, an issue that has long been a major challenge for the water sector. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes this chal...
March 1, 2024
As we commemorate Women's Day 2024 under the theme "Invest in Women", let's focus on empowering women in the water sector. This blog explores the crucial role of education, breaking down barriers, and promoting inclusivity within ...
November 17, 2023
This World Toilet Day, we’re spotlighting innovative and unconventional solutions to accelerate change and achieve universal access to sustainable sanitation services where it is most needed. Off-grid sanitation solutions can be...
November 3, 2023
Water utilities are at the forefront of safeguarding public health, safety, and the environment, and play a critical role in building community resilience. Many water utilities globally have been targeted by cyberattacks, increasi...
March 1, 2023
The involvement of IWA’s Specialist Group on Sustainability in the Water Sector on the issue of Women in Water dates back to IWA’s 2018 World Water Congress & Exhibition in Tokyo, when our SG co-hosted a workshop that addresse...

Media posts

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October 19, 2023
The International Water Association (IWA) is pleased to announce progress of a new initiative with the Global Sanitation Graduate School (GSGS) to engage sanitation students around the world. The joint effort aims to integrate san...
September 6, 2023
The International Water Association (IWA) will be hosting the World Water Congress & Exhibition (WWCE) 2024 in Toronto, Canada on 11-15 August 2024. The 2024 edition in Toronto will provide a showcase for latest developments t...
May 16, 2023
Call for nominations extended to 22 May! The IWA Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) is calling for nominations for the Ardern-Lockett Award 2023, IWA MEWE Early and Mid Career Researcher Awards 202...
May 4, 2023
The International Water Association (IWA) will be hosting the Water and Development Congress & Exhibition (WDCE) 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda on 10-14 December 2023. The theme for this year’s congress is ‘Water, sanitation, ...
March 2, 2023
Call for Nominations is open until 30 April 2023 The IWA Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) is now calling for nominations for the Ardern-Lockett Award 2023, IWA MEWE Early and Mid Career Research...

Events

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Empowering Women in Water: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region

IWA, Sustainability in the Water Sector Specialist Group EnglishOnline Free International Women's Day ON DEMAND

Empowering women in water – perspectives from the African region

IWA EnglishOnline Free Women in Water, Gender, WASH ON DEMAND

Empowering Women in Water – Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

IWA English, SpanishOnline Free Women, gender equity, inclusive work environment, gender pay gap ON DEMAND

Empowering Women in Water

IWA Specialist Group on Sustainability in the Water Sector EnglishOnline Free Sustainability in the Water Sector ON DEMAND

Community pages

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July 7, 2020
The storage and management of data for long-term and use long after collection must account for the fact that the future purpose of the collected data is unknown at the time data generation. Current practices suggest that data col...
August 14, 2019
IWA and the Sustainable Development Goals In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims at achieving ambitious targets by 2030. In this Agenda, solving Water and ...
February 29, 2016
In many world regions Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) systems are prevalent. IWS systems can be defined as piped water supply service that is available to consumers less than 24 hours per day. In an IWS situation, the consumers us...
December 23, 2015
Since the introduction of drinking water production and wastewater treatment in the beginning of the 20th century, the two main goals were to protect human health and to protect the receiving aquatic environment. To achieve this, ...
December 23, 2015
Microbial ecology recently got a big boost due to the fantastic development in novel molecular technologies, particularly related to DNA/RNA sequencing technologies, developed by microbial ecologists and biotechnologists during th...

Projects

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Digital Water

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Towards the Next Generation of Water Systems The IWA Digital Water Programme will ...

Monitoring for Safe Water

Improving Knowledge and Practices for Microbial Water Quality Testing in Africa Why doesn’t water quality testing mee...

Human Resource Capacity Gaps Study

The progress many countries have made in the provision of safe water and adequate sanitation is at risk if we do not act...