The Stratawire
Original reporting and analysis from the field: energy, water, infrastructure, industrial technology and AI. Every card shows what the story rests on.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Photo: Bill Gray · Recorded on site
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.
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Simulator built on the firm's control room product drew 110 registrations for 48 seats. Tony Summerscales also discussed AI triage and street works compliance.
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IPGN Solutions brought its voice reporting app for field inspectors to the IWA World Water Congress in Glasgow, as it looks beyond energy to water utilities.
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The World Water Congress opens 4 October with more than 100 technical sessions and a programme spanning reuse, PFAS, AI, resilience, resource recovery and utility operations.
The proposed Lamu refinery would add 700,000 barrels a day of processing capacity, but land, environmental and execution risks remain material.
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The government says its strengthened Water Bill will remove statutory restrictions on state share ownership, adding a new option to the sector’s restructuring debate.
The 0.8 mtpa agreement extends the return of long-duration contracting in global LNG and gives Petrobras another tool for managing spot-market exposure.
A final investment decision on the Kitimat expansion commits Canada to a much larger role in Pacific LNG trade.
Italy’s Eni has capped petrol and diesel prices for a month as governments and suppliers confront renewed pressure from high energy costs.
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A revised creditor proposal for Britain’s largest water utility highlights the difficult link between debt, investment and operational performance.
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The race to build AI data centres is turning electricity, water use and local consent into hard constraints on digital growth.
Singapore-based HANSUN brings water treatment, pollution-control and gas-generation equipment into the conversation around safer, cleaner LNG and tanker operations.
On Norway's Gastech pavilion, Aize and ECOnnect Energy tell two very different technology stories that meet at the same problem: how to make complex energy infrastructure easier to understand, build and operate.
On the Norway pavilion in Bangkok, Aize is putting a practical question at the centre of industrial digitalisation: can engineers get from a complex physical asset to the information they need without fighting through disconnected systems?
The transition to lower-carbon shipping is often discussed in terms of fuels. BlueSoul and Torgy LNG are working on the less visible engineering problem: how those fuels are stored, contained and delivered safely aboard ships.