Sep 13, 2023 · Other critical innovations include those around storage systems for water, leakage in water delivery systems, agriculture, recycling industrial wastewater, and water-efficient energy systems. These areas and technologies, often requiring collaboration between public and private sectors, hold the potential to reshape water management paradigms.

Mar 20, 2025 · Access to freshwater is changing rapidly, with water stress affecting billions of people and countless businesses each year. Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and severe, water pollution continues to rise and, without urgent action, we will soon reach a tipping point. This report outlines key pathways to strengthen water resilience, through private …

Nov 1, 2024 · The success of the Lushan Water Supply Company exemplifies how digital twin technology can enhance efficiency on a local scale. Yet, with urbanization rates skyrocketing, the need for scalable water-management solutions becomes increasingly urgent. Cross-sector collaboration will be necessary to tackle broader water-management issues at both ...

6 days ago · A practical example of this is Waterplan’s internal Data Validation Tool: for each AI-generated water risk indicator – including physical (quantity, quality and flood), regulatory and infrastructure risks generated by the Waterplan platform – the final outputs (sources, analyses, descriptions and risk scores) are systematically evaluated ...

Mar 22, 2021 · World Water Day is held on 22 March every year to raise awareness of the importance of freshwater and the challenges billions face in getting access to safe water. A growing population, the increasing demands of human use for agriculture and industry, plus the effects of climate change all put water under threat.

Jun 25, 2025 · The food-water nexus is an impact multiplier for sustained and resilient economies. Work on systemic transformation has just begun, especially across emerging economics. The five-step blueprint provides a pathway to dismantle silos, align stakeholders and embed innovation into the fabric of food-water systems.

Mar 21, 2025 · Building water resilience hinges on cross-sector partnerships, tailored financing and adopting innovative governance and policy frameworks. Five essential strategies – holistic water valuation, fit-for-purpose financing, basin-level partnerships, adaptive governance and a policy-innovation nexus – can help ensure long-term water security.

Jan 18, 2024 · To demystify the water technology landscape and elevate the most scalable solutions in this space, UpLink recently ran the Zero Water Waste Challenge, from which the top 10 water-focused entrepreneurs or 'Aquapreneurs' from a pool of 192 applicants representing 40 different countries have now been announced.

May 5, 2025 · Take Wateroam, a start-up providing clean and safe water solutions to communities in need, now scaling internationally thanks to public sector support. Importantly, PUB also invests in public awareness and branding, which helps to reframe water as a national asset and innovation frontier – something often lacking in most global water models.

Jul 8, 2025 · According to the United Nations, only 0.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater accessible for human use and approximately 2.2 billion people still lack access to safely managed water. Japan is relatively well-resourced, with around 430 billion cubic metres of water resources annually, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...