World Water Day 2025: Glacier Preservation
This year’s World Water Day, 22 March 2025, highlights the theme ‘Glacier Preservation’ and the International Water Association (IWA) is pleased to add its voice of support, connecting its work bringing together water professionals around the world to advance water security.
World Water Day - UN publishes flagship water report for 2022
In conjunction with World Water Day, the United Nations has published the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), UN-Water’s flagship report on water and sanitation issues, which is focussed on a different theme each year.
World Water Day - Balancing the priorities of a generation raised on sustainability
In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing on World Water Day, Caroline Boden, Head of Communication at Echo Managed Services explores how water companies can align messages about water conservation and sustainability with environmentally-conscious current and future Generation Z (Gen Z) customers.
World Water Day: UN's High Level Panel announces early steps to tackle water challenges
The twelve Leaders who make up the United Nation's High Level Panel on Water have announced a series of early steps taken following on from last September’s Action Plan which called for a new approach to water management that will help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
World Water Day: a timely reminder for global resilience challenges
In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, David Smith, Chief Strategy Officer for MWH Global, calls for countries and populations to do more to improve water resilience because of the huge impact it has on access to clean water, global health, jobs, economies and societies.
Water: make it our business
Today is UN World Water Day, and it is followed fast tomorrow by Earth Hour. Given rising worldwide interest in the challenges of supplying clean water, I wonder how many business leaders in the UK will be discussing water today? Perhaps not as many as should be, but probably more than we might expect.
Paul Street, Director of Sustainable Solutions at Black & Veatch EMEIA, calls for greater focus on water use by business and industry.
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Expert speaker line-up and leading exhibitors to feature at next month’s National Civils Show, Floodex, National Drainage Show & Waterways Management in London
Attendees at next month’s National Civils Show, Floodex, National Drainage Show and Waterways Management on 26th and 27th November are set to benefit from an expert speaker line-up and the opportunity to visit a wide range of exhibitors all co-located in one place at Excel, London, one of the UK’s leading international exhibition and convention centres. -
Ovarro smart leak detection builds drought resilience worldwide
Tackling leakage is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways for utilities to bolster water security, writes Ben Crabtree, Product Line Director, Ovarro, revealing how the potential of smart technologies is being demonstrated around the world. -
South Staffordshire Plc earns prestigious RoSPA global health and safety award
UK-headquartered South Staffordshire Plc, the integrated services group operating within the UK critical infrastructure and essential services markets, has received a prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Award for global health and safety excellence. -
Balfour Beatty achieves 99.1% Responsible Sourcing on major Thames Estuary infrastructure project
Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest construction and infrastructure provider, has delivered exceptional environmental results on the Thames Estuary Asset Management 2100 (TEAM2100) framework, one of the nation’s most ambitious flood defence initiatives.
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