Blogs
Building refugee resilience in East Africa through reusing resources
This World Population Day, we explore how refugees can develop resilience with water.
Blogs
After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of capacity by capturing value (‘CapVal’) from human waste in ways that support a circular economy.
Blogs
Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and sanitation systems.
In the media
CGIAR: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste from septic tanks as an untapped resource.
In the media
BusinessGhana.com: International Water Management Institute celebrates Sanitation Challenge Award winners
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has celebrated the winners of Sanitation Challenge Awards, which was held to recognise institutions and individuals performing remarkably to reusing waste products.
In the media
SundayTimes.lk: Better waste management options explored at NIBM workshop
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) was a valued partner in conceptualising the workshop content and was well represented at the workshop with the participation of its senior officials.
Publications
Resource Recovery from Waste
The book provides a compendium of business options for energy, nutrients and water recovery via 24 innovative business models based on an in-depth analysis of over 60 empirical cases, of which 47 from around the world are described and evaluated in a systematic way.
News
Is waste the next big business opportunity?
A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness waste to help fill the world’s food and energy needs.
Blogs
Game-changing water solutions
Realizing the huge potential to bolster water security in the Middle East and North Africa.
Blogs
A milestone on the road to greener economies
New plant to deliver a safe nutrient-rich fertilizer made from recycled waste
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.
Blogs
Cities and towns in deep doo-doo
Scaling up sustainable and profitable re-use of fecal sludge to sort out the mess
News
Guess what’s about to hit the fan!
A year of taking seriously the developing world’s wastewater crisis.
Publications
Resource Recovery & Reuse, series-7: A review on production, marketing and use of fuel briquettes
Where modern heating and cooking fuels for domestic, institutional, commercial and industrial use are not readily available, briquettes made from biomass residues could contribute...