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8 October 2026
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Kiunga Solar Desalination and Water-for-Peace Initiative wins IWA Project Innovation Awards gold
The Lamu County Government-led Kiunga solar desalination and Water-for-Peace initiative has won gold in the Governance, Institutions and Social Enterprise category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
IWA World Water Congress Glasgow 2026 final day: awards, water reform and the road to the UN Water Conference
The 2026 IWA World Water Congress reaches its final day in Glasgow. Here is what the week told the water sector, from awards to regulation, and what is still on today's programme.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Scottish Water's Winchburgh Wastewater Treatment Works wins bronze at IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026
The £35 million Nereda-based plant took bronze in the Performance Improvement and Operational Solutions category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards ceremony in Glasgow.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Zhengzhou Xinqu water-energy nexus project wins IWA Grand Innovation Award 2026
China's Zhengzhou Xinqu 'Megacity-Scale Water-Energy Nexus Model' has won the Grand Innovation Award at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026, topping 320 entries from 65 countries.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Glasgow World Water Congress opens: Global Water Award to Clarissa Brocklehurst, call for action
The 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition opened in Glasgow on 4 October. Clarissa Brocklehurst received the IWA Global Water Award and Professor Katherine Richardson urged delegates to turn connections into action.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Hassyan 180 MIGD SWRO independent water project wins IWA gold for Exceptional Project Execution and Delivery
Dubai's Hassyan 180 MIGD seawater reverse osmosis independent water project has taken gold in the Exceptional Project Execution and Delivery category at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026.
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BriefingWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
EMASESA's The Digital Reservoir takes Smart Systems gold at IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026
EMASESA's cyber-physical water cycle project for Seville took gold in Smart Systems and the Digital Water Economy at the IWA Project Innovation Awards 2026, presented during the World Water Congress in Glasgow.
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6 October 2026
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Cunliffe takes UK water reform to the world congress as England’s reservoirs strain
The former chair of the Independent Water Commission addressed IWA delegates in Glasgow as the government prepares to replace Ofwat with a single regulator — and as England remains in drought.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Treat rain as a resource, not waste: Glasgow forum compares four places’ approaches
An IWA forum compared rainwater policy in Australia, Flanders, San Francisco and Hamburg, as Professor Han Mu-young was honoured for his rainwater work — with England still in drought.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Water innovation must deliver practical impact, Wetsus’s Cees Buisman tells IWA congress
In a Glasgow keynote, Buisman argued that water innovation has to move beyond producing new ideas to making a meaningful difference in practice — a challenge for a sector where new technology can take more than a decade to reach the mainstream.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Building infrastructure is not the same as delivering water services, Glasgow summit concludes
Government, UN, utility and regulator leaders at IWA’s “Water for People” summit said institutions, people, finance and maintenance decide whether services work — as 2.1 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water ahead of December’s UN Water Conference.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Kuching takes over the IWA World Water Congress for 2028 at Glasgow handover
The Sarawak capital will be the first city in the region to host the International Water Association’s flagship congress — and arrives with a state water grid, a newly merged utility and a purpose-built convention centre in the making.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Data-centre requests equal 11.6% of Selangor’s water output, Air Selangor tells IWA congress
Malaysia’s largest water utility says data centres arrive in bulk and on short timelines, and is turning to reclaimed water and fit-for-purpose supply for industry.
AI-assisted · Inese Pritchard
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Wetlands already work alongside grey infrastructure — the hurdle is maintenance, IWA panel hears
A Glasgow panel on nature-based solutions said treatment wetlands are proven alongside conventional plants, but low maintenance is too often mistaken for no maintenance.
AI-assisted · Inese Pritchard
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ReportWaterIWA World Water Congress 2026
Water’s skills shortage is about adaptability as much as numbers, IWA panel hears
Speakers from the Institute of Water, Defra, Hazen and Sawyer and Arup told a Glasgow session that the sector needs lifelong learning, leadership and critical thinking, not only more recruits.
AI-assisted · Bill Gray
