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World Water Day 2023

Accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.

December 2022- January 2023 Research Journal Roundup

As we transitioned into a new year, IWMI researchers continued to advance our knowledge of how we can strengthen natural resource management, improve food resiliency, and promote gender equity.

September-November 2022 Research Journal Roundup

Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from September to November.

World Toilet Day 2022: An Interview with Solomie Gebrezgabher

When you flush your toilet, do you ever wonder what happens to your waste? Dr. Solomie Gebrezgabher, IWMI Senior Researcher, will tell you that human excrement can be transformed into something valuable.

Water reuse: a potential game-changer for water security in the Middle East and North Africa

ReWater MENA focused on one region. But as the most water-stressed region in the world, it offers valuable lessons for other areas facing increasing water scarcity.

Waste not, want not

Recovery of safe and nutritious food from wholesale to consumer and safe redistribution for direct human consumption to reduce hunger and malnutrition.

Securing MENA’s water supply

Talking to Nature Middle East, Javier Mateo-Sagasta explains that building trust among stakeholders is key to increasing long-term use of water reuse technologies and practices in the MENA region.

July-August 2022 Research Journal Roundup

Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from July and August

Staying alive: Navigating water, gender and poverty inequalities in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt

Women’s increasing roles in irrigation in Egypt, as well as across the MENA region cannot be viewed in isolation of women’s domestic care work.

Key takeaways from IWMI’s participation at the 9th World Water Forum

Roundup blog of IWMI activities, events and sessions at the World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal.

World Toilet Day 2021: An interview with Olufunke Cofie

Leadership and governance systems must provide an enabling environment for the scaling of improved sanitation.

Tapping into Groundwater

In a recent interview, Dr. Villholth spoke more about IWMI’s groundwater program and how events such as World Water Week are important to protecting and managing the resource.

Water’s role in poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs

CGIAR’s new ambitions are defined by a set of impact areas, with water – and therefore water systems science – at the heart of each. 

Building refugee resilience in East Africa through reusing resources

This World Population Day, we explore how refugees can develop resilience with water.

Learning from our mistakes: transforming water management to boost biodiversity

When designing water solutions for communities, IWMI researchers always consider the impact on biodiverse ecosystems.

New course for entrepreneurs in resource recovery and reuse

Engineers and intrapreneurs can access online course offering solutions to challenges of waste management and sanitation, proposing business models that transform human waste into fertilizer, food waste into biogas, and wastewater into irrigation sources.

The new economy of excrement

Entrepreneurs are finding profits turning human waste into fertiliser, fuel and even food.

Raw waste water use on farms is ‘50% higher’ than estimated

IWMI study reveals the global use of untreated waste water from cities to irrigate crops is much more widespread than previously estimated.

Pit latrine maintenance can be a community health problem

Rizwan Ahmed says pit latrine maintenance can be a community health problem.

From noxious sludge to clean water

Environmental economist Soumya Balasubramanya explains health in Bangladesh could be improved by safely recycling waste.

So what do you do with the poo in a pit latrine?

Bangladesh has done a great job of getting more toilets to more people. Now it needs to figure out how to empty them.

Reimagining wastewater economics: a breakthrough in Bangladesh

A proposed scheme would spread payments and make waste collection safe and profitable.

Banking on wastewater

IWMI enables societies to address challenges posed by wastewater by generating new knowledge on wastewater management, writes Jeremy Bird.

World Water Day 2017

A focus on wastewater.

Guess what’s about to hit the fan!

A year of taking seriously the developing world’s wastewater crisis.