Kenya has launched the International Volunteer Year with a strong focus on environmental stewardship and water resilience, aligning national volunteer programs with efforts to protect catchments, restore
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Global water security and Australia’s partnership model
The storms arrive harder, the dry spells last longer, and cities grow faster than pipes and policies can keep up. This is the context in which global water security will rise or fall. For utilities, regulators,
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Engineering a generational legacy with a Sustainability Framework
Interflow’s new Sustainability Framework is everybody’s business, according to Sustainability and Environment Manager Pam Johnson. It’s about leaving a better legacy for future generations.
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Celebrating World Water Day and Indonesian twinning partnership
To mark this year’s World Water Day, Yarra Valley Water staff are celebrating the successes of an international partnership between Indonesia and Australia, now entering its third year.
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World Bank to improve water supply and quality
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$257.8 million financing to improve water supply and quality services in the Greater Beirut and Mount Lebanon area.
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Don’t retire on detecting those leaks
Christmas keeps coming. Several property managers and owners of retirement living villages throughout Australia will again have conserved thousands of litres of water, saving their residents tens of thousands of dollars by detecting leaks. It makes for a nice present under the Christmas tree. This initiative involved collaboration with WaterGroup, Australia’s largest corporate water savings provider, renowned for its success in helping clients save money and water.
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UN and OECD to work together on water and sanitation
Access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right and an essential driver of economic development. It is imperative that development actors collaborate effectively to achieve the water-related goals set forth in the 2030 Agenda.
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Leading water utilities are paving the way to net zero, says Xylem
World leaders are gathering this week in Baku, Azerbaijan, to accelerate the decarbonization of the world economy at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The water sector, which accounts for almost 2 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, is answering the call with ambitious strategies to deploy advanced technology to cut the sector’s carbon footprint.
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WaterAid Australia report on environments and communities
Approximately 70 per cent of the population of Pacific Island countries lack access to basic sanitation. Sanitation access in Pacific Island schools and healthcare facilities is among the lowest in the world. This has been revealed in the new WaterAid Australia report, “Healthy Environments, Resilient Communities: The vital role of sanitation for improving climate resilience in the Pacific.”
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Bitcoin hurting land, carbon… and water?
Every country has a different environmental footprint associated with Bitcoin. It’s largely dependent on its energy sources, with the U.S. and China having the largest Bitcoin mining footprints.
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FAO broadens scope of innovative water monitoring tool
One of the most innovative tools in water management and governance is going global. The open-access WaPOR system uses geospatial data to track actual crop water consumption down to the field level.
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