Integrated circular economy transformations - Page 2
Publications
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.
Publications
September-November 2022 Research Journal Roundup
Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from September to November.
Blogs
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.
Blogs
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.
Blogs
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.
In the media
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.
Publications
July-August 2022 Research Journal Roundup
Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from July and August
Blogs
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.
Features
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.
News
World Toilet Day 2021: An interview with Olufunke Cofie
Leadership and governance systems must provide an enabling environment for the scaling of improved sanitation.
Blogs
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.
Blogs
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.
Blogs
Building refugee resilience in East Africa through reusing resources
This World Population Day, we explore how refugees can develop resilience with water.
Blogs
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.
News
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.
In the media
The new economy of excrement
Entrepreneurs are finding profits turning human waste into fertiliser, fuel and even food.
In the media
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.
In the media
Pit latrine maintenance can be a community health problem
Rizwan Ahmed says pit latrine maintenance can be a community health problem.
In the media
From noxious sludge to clean water
Environmental economist Soumya Balasubramanya explains health in Bangladesh could be improved by safely recycling waste.
In the media
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.
In the media
Reimagining wastewater economics: a breakthrough in Bangladesh
A proposed scheme would spread payments and make waste collection safe and profitable.
From the DG
Banking on wastewater
IWMI enables societies to address challenges posed by wastewater by generating new knowledge on wastewater management, writes Jeremy Bird.
News
Guess what’s about to hit the fan!
A year of taking seriously the developing world’s wastewater crisis.