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IWMI announces the appointment of five new members to its Board of Governors and Program Committee

Their expertise will be invaluable as the Institute works towards water systems transformation in the critical years ahead. 

The world faces a water crisis, and four powerful charts show how

Talking to Scientific American, Rachael McDonnell gave context about the UN Water Conference, the international frameworks that apply to water and the related challenges.

It’s time to reset our approach to the global water crisis

Alan Nicol explains that old assumptions about systems, markets and individuals need to give way to ideas of collective action, equality and social justice.

UN 2023 Water Conference: 46 years after Mar del Plata, it’s time to examine the successes and failures

Alan Nicol commented on the effect of atmospheric carbon on water systems.

Dr. Mark Smith to continue as Director General of IWMI

CGIAR Research Center, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is pleased to announce that its Board of Governors has extended Dr. Mark Smith’s appointment as Director General, until August 2025.

Key takeaways from IWMI’s participation at the first-ever MENA Climate Week

A key stop on the road to COP27, the conference allowed IWMI to share blueprints for creating more water-secure, climate-resilient communities across the Middle East and North Africa.

Fostering resilient utilities in an uncertain world: The Water Resilience Assessment Framework

As COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, learn how the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, CEO Water Mandate, IWMI, Pacific Institute, and World Resources Institute are joining forces to help lay the foundation for a more water-secure and climate-resilient world.

What is a food system without water and energy?

Explore this graphic to learn more about why the water, food, energy nexus must play a central role at the UN Food Systems Summit.

Five key takeaways from World Water Week 2021

IWMI participated in a record 31 sessions at this year’s virtual event. Here are some of our key takeaways.

How IWMI is engaged in the global climate agenda

Through policy engagement, IWMI contributes to the global dialogue on climate.

The planet will ‘dehydrate before it starves’: Why universal access to water is crucial

The COVID-19 pandemic has set the stage for a now-or-never year of rethinking the entire system behind food and nutrition.

Rethink water for SDG 6 and beyond – more urgent than ever

We can transform our water world for the better and support many other SDGs in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, but we need to take decisive action now, argue Stefan Uhlenbrook and Claudia Sadoff on Springer Nature.

The pandemic is laying bare a global water crisis

In an op-ed on Foreign Policy, Alan Nicol argues insufficient water for washing is likely to worsen the coronavirus in the poorest nations — but there’s a better way forward.

Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic 

This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current status of crops around the world.

IWMI and Covid-19

Statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General of IWMI, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

CGIAR funders pledge $650 million for farmers’ climate adaptation

At the UN Climate Action Summit, a global coalition of funders promise more than $650 million to help 300 million smallholder farmers adapt to climate change.

Better data can help close the global gender gap

The empowerment of rural women will be crucial to speed up the rate at which we are able to close this gap, Claudia Sadoff argues.

How to think equal, build smart, and innovate for change

For International Women's Day 2019, IWMI researchers share their personal perspectives on this year's theme.

Re-examining the economics, engineering and water management paradigms – An interview with Claudia Sadoff

Claudia Sadoff, spoke to IWA about exciting initiatives that turn wealth from waste, during World Water Congress 2018.

What to do in the absence of water

IWMI's work was quoted in this article on World Water Week 2018.

Resource Recovery from Waste book

This critical publication explores sustainable, economically viable models for reusing waste in ways that benefit public health, agriculture, and energy production.

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.

ENS-Newswire.com: World Water Day Appreciates Precious Wastewater

Thinking like a business can help make waste management financially attractive and environmentally sustainable.

Banking on wastewater

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

Guess what’s about to hit the fan!

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

Better water, better jobs

What is the link between jobs and water?

Empowering Women for 50-50

International Women’s Day 2016 “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality”

Stephanie Leder

Measured mutuality

The SDG indicators for water cooperation.

Alan Nicol on social protection and water

CGIAR experts go live for World Food Day.

Building on three decades of research

IWMI’s Director General Jeremy Bird looks forward to 2015.

Gender and agriculture

Bringing men and women together to reduce hunger and support livelihoods.

Salvation for the saturated?

IWMI-led team launches a guide for the perplexed.