Sustainability in the Water Sector
The IWA Specialist Group on Sustainability in the Water Sector covers all issues related to achieving greater sustainability in Integrated Urban Water Management nested within Integrated Water Resources Management. The focus is on water quality, quantity and infrastructure in an integrated urban water cycle management approach, which will be particularly useful for those organisations wishing to achieve sustainable water supply, sanitation and stormwater management.
The IWA Specialist Group on Sustainability in the Water Sector takes a rounded approach to all the issues — environmental, economic, and social — to be addressed in achieving greater sustainability in Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM), nested within Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The Group builds upon core and distinctive strengths of the Association, in respect of understanding and managing water and water quality across urban systems (IUWM or total water cycle management). Water supply, sanitation, and stormwater management are thus central matters of concern. From this basis, grounded in an understanding of the associated movement of water, nutrients, and contaminants through the city, the Group is concerned to understand and manage the nature of the connections between the urban and rural landscapes across the watershed, hence IWRM. Currently, the Group is pursuing a strategy of developing resources for elaborating and communicating IWA's unique role in respect of sustainability, in particular, the IWA Global Platform website. This also serves the purpose of enhancing cross-cutting collaborative links with other Specialist Groups — for example, through the Sustainability Group’s involvement in the Task Group on “Wastewater Utility Greenhouse Gas Footprints” — and supporting IWA's participation in the global sustainability debate and related programs.
Sustainability Prize 2012
The call for nominations to Sustainability Prize is now open, please have a look at the webpage for this Prize and submit your nominations for outstanding proposals and projects you know to sustainability-prize@iwahq.org before 1 July, 2012.
Task Groups
IWA Task Group on The use of water quality and process models for minimizing wastewater utility greenhouse gas footprints
Chair
Professor M Bruce Beck
Warnell School of Forest Resources Athens
30602-2152
United States
Tel: 1 706 542 0947
Fax: 1 706 542 0857
Secretary
Mr Steven Kenway
Advanced Water Management Centre
Level 4 Gehrmann Building
University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072
Australia
Tel: 61 733654730
Fax: 61 733654726
Management Committee
see committee members here
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