Tag: SDGs
Facebook has reached 2 billion new users; can the water sector...
By Tom Williams*
Back in 2004, the founders of Facebook launched their service to a select group of university students. Fourteen years later and the...
The new science, technology and practice driving the SDGs
By Hong Li, Ger Bergkamp and Glen Daigger*
The rapid development of the science and technology related to water will have profound impacts on the...
Collaborate or fail: reaching millions to address sanitation capacity gaps
By Kirsten De Vette*
Have you ever wondered about what it takes for you to be able flush a toilet? It seems the most normal...
Answering the call to invest in the world’s poor
By Gary White*
Many of the world’s leading philanthropic organisations, development banks, government officials, and impact entrepreneurs gathered at the United Nations to address the...
Interview with Sergio Campos, Water and Sanitation Division Chief, IDB
“The Inter-American Development Bank is a Strategic Partner to the IWA Water and Development Congress,where we will showcase our work to advance the water and...
Water’s new development path
By Yang Villa*
It still surprises people outside of the water sector when they find out that the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS)...
AquaRating: transforming the water and sanitation sector
By Corinne Cathala*
For all of us who have been working in water for the last 15 years or more, 2015 was year 1, the...
Collaboration is key to seizing the reuse opportunity of wastewater
By Lisa Andrews*
Infrequent or a lack of potable water supply has made wastewater reuse and recovery a method of choice for many across the...
Industry needs more guidance to achieve SDG6, says new report
Greater collaboration between companies and the WASH community is needed to help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6–water and sanitation for all–, says a new...
Maximising financing for achieving the SDG ambition on water
By Guangzhe Chen*
Since 1990 an additional 2.1 billion people worldwide gained access to improved sanitation and, 91 percent of the global population now use improved...
