A milestone on the road to greener economies
New plant to deliver a safe nutrient-rich fertilizer made from recycled waste
World Water Day 2017: A focus on wastewater
Celebrating World Water Day with a blog post from our DG, a PLoS ONE journal submission, contributions to the World Water Development Report and a new video.
Banking on wastewater
IWMI enables societies to address challenges posed by wastewater by generating new knowledge on wastewater management, writes Jeremy Bird.
Cities and towns in deep doo-doo
Scaling up sustainable and profitable re-use of fecal sludge to sort out the mess
Grafting glaciers and building ice stupas
Building ice stupas is helping farming communities of Ladakh in the far north of India to grow more crops and increase their resilience to climate change.
New insights into the Ganges River Basin
New book presents an overview of the challenges facing the critically important Ganges river as a water resource for 500 million people.
Migration, water and the trajectory of rural change in South Asia
In large parts of South Asia, a majority of families pursue a dual livelihood strategy, depending on both farming and migrant wage work.
Fraser Sugden
Fraser Sugden
Women, empowerment and the SDG targets
Gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment has featured prominently in development discourse for the last two decades and today comprises one of the sustainable development goals.
Floriane Clement
Floriane Clement
Empowering Women for 50-50
International Women’s Day 2016 “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality”
Stephanie Leder
Stephanie Leder
Tenant collectives in North Bihar
A new model for bottom up irrigation and land management for marginal women farmers.
Dr Fraser Sugden, IWMI Nepal
Dr Fraser Sugden, IWMI Nepal
Ganges women to bear the brunt of climate change
Poor women and vulnerable groups will “bear the brunt” of climate change in parts of Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
2014: Putting water on the global agenda
Jeremy Bird, Direct General of IWMI, talks about putting water on the global agenda.
Feeding everyone: A case for water governance reform
Water scarcity can be combated, but it needs politicians and policy makers to develop some enthusiasm for reforming the water sector.