Water21 - magazine of the International Water Association
August 2011
Issue 13.4
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COVER STORY
Urban urgency: the UN’s support for water supply and sanitation in developing countries
UN-Habitat, the UN system’s ‘city agency’, has had to scale back its water sector activities because of a reduction in the funding it has received from donors. With IWA’s second Development Congress due to take place in Kuala Lumpur later this year, Keith Hayward looks at the water supply and sanitation challenges urban areas in Asia are facing, and looks at UN-Habitat’s future priorities for working around the world.
NEWS / ANALYSIS
Including... Sanitation drive launched to speed access to services. On 21 June, some of the most powerful figures in the water world met to give their seal of approval to the launch of the ‘Sustainable sanitation: five-year drive to 2015’, a push to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving those without access to sanitation by that year.
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GLOBAL FOCUS
- 12. Urban urgency: the UN’s support for water supply and sanitation in developing countries
- By Keith Hayward
DESALINATION
- 17. Diversifying supplies: the progress of the global desalination market
- By Lis Stedman
SEWERS AND SEWER NETWORKS
- 22. Sniffing for sewage with canine tracking
- By Lis Stedman
- 24. Saving money on sewers: Indianapolis renegotiates upgrade agreement
- By Jim Force
TESTING / ANALYSIS
- 29. Full chain analysis for Barcelona’s supplies
- By Marta Ganzer, Jordi Martín-Alonso, Miquel Paraira and Lleonard Matia
- 31. Bioanalytical tools for safe water supplies: using cellular response to show toxicity effect
- By Beate Escher and Fred Leusch
- 33. Analytical challenges of EU directive compliance: testing times for sewage treatment in the UK
- By Keith Hayward
ASIA
- 36. Korea invests in stormwater best practice solutions
- By Lee Hyung-Kim and Brian D'Arcy
- 39. Recovery and restoration: rebuilding Japan’s sewerage facilities
- By Mayumi Koseki
- 41. Tap water for Tokyo
- By Noboru Saito
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION CONTROL
- 42. Verdant and versatile: the adaptable nature of reed bed treatment
- By Scott Wallace
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
- 45. Full resource recovery in new approaches to sanitation
- By Bill McCann
SANITATION
- 47. Cutting the cholera risk - alternative approaches for medical centre wastewater treatment
- By Huw Taylor, Jean-François Fesselet, Emanuele Sozzi, Tom Curtis, and Adrien Mahama
WATER LOSS
- 48. IWA guidance for apparent loss reduction: filling the knowledge gap
- By Edgar Johnson and Michael Vermersch
51. PROJECTS, PRODUCTS & SERVICES
WATER UTILITY 21
- 55. French water group expands to provide Saudi city’s services
- By Lis Stedman
WATER ENVIRONMENT 21
- 56. Managing water and energy in cities
- By Jamie Pittock
59. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
62. READING AND RESOURCES
63. IWA NEWS
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66. DIARY
67. IWA EVENTS
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