International Water Association

International Water Association (IWA)
Founded7 September 1999; 24 years ago (1999-09-07)[1][2][3]
TypeProfessional association
FocusSustainable water management
Location
  • London, United Kingdom
OriginsIWSA, IAWQ[4]
Area served
Worldwide
MethodConferences, publications, interest groups, task forces, forums
Key people
Tom Mollenkopf (President); Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy (Executive Director)
Websitewww.iwa-network.org

The International Water Association (IWA) is a self-governing nonprofit organization and knowledge hub for the water sector, connecting water professionals and companies to find solutions to the world's water challenges. It has permanent staff housed in its headquarters and global secretariat in central London, the United Kingdom to support the activities, and has a regional office in Chennai, India.[5] The aim of the IWA is to function as an international network for water experts and promote standards and optimal approaches in sustainable water management. IWA has a membership comprising technology companies, water and wastewater utilities, and wider stakeholders in the fields of water services, infrastructure engineering and consulting as well as more than 10,000 individuals including scientists and researchers, with governing members in approximately 80 countries. IWA is an affiliated member of the International Science Council (ISC).

Two significant conferences are organized by the IWA biannually: the World Water Congress & Exhibition (WWDE) and the Water and Development Congress & Exhibition (WDCE). IWA works across a wide range of issues covering the full water cycle, with four programmes – Basins of the Future (water security), Cities of the Future (urban metabolism, sustainable city), Water and Sanitation Services (wastewater management) including Water policy and regulation – that work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the 70th UN General Assembly and addressing the threat to sustainable water supplies posed by climate change.

History[edit]

The association traces its historical roots back to the International Water Supply Association (IWSA), established in June 1947, and the International Association on Water Quality (IAWQ), which was originally formed as the International Association for Water Pollution Research (IAWPR) in 1962, formally constituted in June 1965, renamed International Association of Water Pollution Research and Control (IAWPRC) in March 1982 and adopting IAWQ in May 1992.[3][1] On 23 January 1998, the then presidents, Nicholas Hood of IWSA and Thomas Keinath of IAWQ, signed a memorandum of understanding, paving the way for the ratification of the merger between the two organizations.[6] After receiving mandates from their respective boards of directors to the formal proposal, IWSA in May and IAWQ in June the same year, the full merger was scheduled to take place by 1 August 1999.[6]

The two professional associations with separate causes, cultures, and working methods eventually merged on 7 September 1999 to form the International Water Association (IWA), creating one international organization focused on the full water cycle.[1][3] The merger was motivated by the streamlining of operations and a desire to accumulate critical mass.[7] Legally signed and created at the end of July 1999, the IWA was ceremonially launched at the IWSA 22nd World Water Congress and Exhibition in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 18–24 September 1999.[7] IWA were operational in their new headquarters on Caxton Street, London from January 2000.

The first congress under the auspices of the new organization was held in Paris in 2000 with nearly 2.500 delegates attending 450 oral presentations, 750 poster presentations and 4 workshops and seminars.[7][8][9] In 2009, IWA launched a biannual Development Congress, with Mexico City as the inaugural location, as a key component of its comprehensive agenda to drive advancements in the developing world.[10] Together with the America’s Clean Water Foundation (ACWF), IWA sponsored the first World Water Monitoring Day in October 2003, handled the coordination of the program with the Water Environment Federation (WEF) from July 2006 until January 2015, where the coordinator role was transferred to EarthEcho International.[11][12] By September 2016, the membership numbers at IWA had increased to 6,295 members.[13]

By 2015, the target year for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) from 2009, the 2030 agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) was embraced as a new main water-focused issue of concern among the many other global priorities.[14] In March 2015, AquaRating was announced as the world's first rating agency for the water sector by establishing the international standard for assessing water and sanitation services provision, jointly developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the IWA.[15] On 1 September 2016, the World Bank and IWA announced the establishment of a partnership surrounding the reduction of water losses.[16] In a partnership with OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the IWA published a report on 26 February 2017, emphasizes the critical need for swift and substantial action to significantly enhance wastewater treatment, reuse, and recycling.[17]

At an official ceremony on 14 November 2007, IWA's operational headquarter office in the Hague, the Netherlands, was opened, which followed the opening of regional offices in Beijing, Republic of China (2006), Singapore (5 June 2007), Nairobi, Kenya (2009/2010) and Bucharest, Romania (24 November 2009).[18][1] A regional office in Chennai, India was established in May 2018 to coordinate the organisation's activities across South Asia, and hosts a sub-unit of the IT and Digital Transformation team.[5] A collaboration agreement that established IWA's new Global Operations Hub in Nanjing, Republic of China, was signed on 22 October 2018 to host the Asia & Oceania Regional Member Engagement and Service, Water Intelligence, IWA Learn, and Event, becoming fully operational in July 2019, and staying active until late 2022 or early 2023.[19][5] Brexit let to the shutdown of the association's operations in the Netherlands and the transfer of activities back to the United Kingdom, where IWA and IWA Publishing have shared an expanded office in London since July 2020.[5]

Management[edit]

Presidents of IWA[edit]

All past presidents of the International Water Association are listed below.[1] The length of the presidency is a two-year term of office, which can be renewed for a second mandate following a constitutional change in 2006. The person becomes president-elect until the term officially commences at the conclusion of an upcoming World Water Congress & Exhibition event with the term ending at the close of the next WWC&E. Votings for the position of IWA President have occurred during a world congress or by the association’s Governing Assembly at the IWA annual general meeting. A vice president and a senior vice president is also elected.

During the merger in 1999, two co-presidents, both hailing from South Africa, were elected at the Buenos Aires Congress. They were tasked with overseeing a two-year transition period from September 1999 through October 2001 (the IWA Congress in Berlin) as the newly formed organization, worked towards operational establishment.[1] Diane D’Arras of France became the association's first female president in October 2016.[20] Due to a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the presidency of Tom Mollenkopf became effective on May 2001 despite being elected for his first term in October 2019.

  • 1999–2001[a]: Piet Odendaal (South Africa)
  • 1999–2001[a]: Vincent Bath (South Africa)
  • 2001–2003: Norihito Tambo (Japan)
  • 2003–2004: Michael Rouse (United Kingdom)
  • 2004–2006: Lászlo Somlyódy [hu] (Hungary)
  • 2006–2010: David Garman (Australia)
  • 2010–2014: Glen Daigger (United States)
  • 2014–2016: Helmut Kroiss (Austria)
  • 2016–2021: Diane D’Arras (France)[21]
  • 2021–2024[b]: Tom Mollenkopf (Australia)[22]
  • 2024–present: Hamanth Chotoo Kasan (South Africa)[23]

Executive Directors of IWA[edit]

All past executive directors of the International Water Association are listed below.

  • 1999–2002: Anthony Milburn (United Kingdom)
  • 2002–2012: Paul Reiter (United States)[24]
  • 2012–2017[c]: Ger Bergkamp (Netherlands)[25]
  • 2017–present: Kala Vairavamoorthy (United Kingdom)

Publications[edit]

(T–B) Water21 was replaced by The Source as the membership magazine for the IWA in 2015.

IWA Publishing Ltd. (IWAP) was established as the wholly owned subsidiary of the International Water Association in January 1999, in anticipation of the merger between IAWQ and IWSA, with the purpose of providing information services on all aspects of water, wastewater and related environmental fields.[26] The company's portfolio include the publishing and printing of periodicals and a broad range of peer-reviewed scientific journals alongside over 800 books, research reports, manuals of best practice, and online services.[27][28] The Journal Citation Reports lists Water Research with the highest impact factor of 11.236 (2020) among the company's journals.[29]

A member and trade exhibition magazine, named Water21 was launched to coincide with the creation of IWA, publishing six issues each year with a worldwide circulation of approx. 20,000, and combining elements from the previous periodicals, IAWQ's Water Quality International and IWSA's Aqua News.[26] The Water21 magazine's final issue was published in June 2015, when the magazine was rebranded and relaunched as The Source in September 2015.[30] At one point a Chinese language supplement for the Water21 magazine, aimed at the Chinese water market, was published twice a year in a joint venture between IWA and Aquatech China with a circulation of 41,000. Two newsletters, named Water Utility Management International (WUMI) and Water Asset Management International (WAMI), were quarterly publications produced by the Water21 team between 2005/2006 and 2015.

In July 1999, the first new publication under IWA Publishing, Journal of Hydroinformatics, was launched in partnership with the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and later International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).[26][1][31] From 2000, the publication of the three journals Water Science and Technology (previously published by Elsevier), AQUA and Water Supply (previously published by Blackwell Scientific Publications on behalf of IWSA) was continued by IWA Publishing, while the publication of Water Research journal was continued by Elsevier in association with IWA.[26] Having had Elsevier as the publisher for the first four volumes, the official journal of the World Water Council, Water Policy, was transferred to IWA Publishing from 2003.[32] Activities related to safe drinking-water by the World Health Organization (WHO) have since 2003 included a collaboration surrounding the publication of the Journal of Water and Health by IWA Publishing.[33] In 2012, the publication of Water Quality Research Journal of Canada was passed from the Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ) to IWA Publishing.

The publishing branch of IWA became a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) in 2021.[34] Ten of IWA Publishing's journals became open access via a "Subscribe to Open" model (S2O) in 2021.

Conferences and workshops[edit]

Flags at the entrance to the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, September 2022, at the Bella Center Copenhagen.[38]

IWA annually hosts more than 40 specialist conferences and workshops on various aspects of water management.[13] Flagship events organized by the IWA include the World Water Congress & Exhibition (WWCE) since 2000 and the biannually Water and Development Congress & Exhibition, with its first edition held in 2009.[38][39][2] The Conference for Water Safety, previously held in Lisbon (2008), Kuching (2010), Kampala (2012), Palawan (2016), Narvik (2022) and Montevideo (2024), and involving the discussion and implementation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs), is organized by the IWA and for the first five editions it was co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO).[40][41][42] The Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies (LET) have been held annually since the first edition at Noordwijk, the Netherlands in 2003, with the exception of years 2020–2021.[43]

The first World Water Congress held under the auspices of the IWA was technically organized under IAWQ congress traditions, while the second WWC was organized as an IWSA/DVGW styled congress.[1] The program committee created for the third congress, held together with the Enviro 2002 Convention & Exhibition, designed the technical program, and was subsequently used as a standing committee for future congresses to ensure both quality and continuity.[1] The 6th edition of the World Water Congress & Exhibition was visited by 4,500 participants from 94 different countries, which by the 11th edition in Tokyo had increased to 9,815 participants from 98 countries, while 8,900 water professionals from utilities, academia, private companies, governments, and global organisations, of 102 countries, took part in the 12th edition in Copenhagen.[44][10][45] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the 12th edition of WWC&E was moved from 2020 to 2022.[46]

The 1st edition of the Water & Development Congress & Exhibition was visited by 400 delegates from 60 countries, organized by the IWA and National Autonomous University of Mexico, while the 6th edition saw 3,142 participants attend from over 100 countries.[47][48] The 5th IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition was not held at a conference center or university, but took place in buildings and under temporary tents at a water treatment plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[49]

WWCE locations and dates[edit]

Edition Name Dates Venue Refs
1 1st IWA World Water Congress 3–7 July 2000 Palais des congrès de Paris, Paris, France [1][2]
2 2nd IWA World Water Congress 15–19 October 2001 Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany [1]
3 3rd IWA World Water Congress 7–12 April 2002 Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia [1][27]
4 4th IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 19–24 September 2004 Palais des congrès de Marrakech [fr], Marrakech, Morocco [1]
5 2006 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 10–14 September 2006 Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, People's Republic of China [1]
6 2008 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 7–12 September 2008 Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria [1]
7 2010 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 19–23 September 2010 Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada [1][2]
8 2012 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 16–21 September 2012 Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, Busan, South Korea [1]
9 2014 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 21–26 September 2014 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal [1][50]
10 2016 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 9–14 October 2016 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [1][51]
11 2018 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 16–21 September 2018 Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan [52][53]
12 2022 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 11–15 September 2022 Bella Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark [38][54]
13 2024 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 11–15 August 2024 Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada [55]
14 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2026 Glasgow, Scotland
15 2028 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2028 Kuching, Malaysia
16 2030 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2030 São Paulo, Brazil

WDCE locations and dates[edit]

Edition Name Dates Venue Refs
1 1st IWA Development Congress 15–19 November 2009[m] National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico [56][47]
2 2nd IWA Development Congress & Exhibition 21–24 November 2011 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [57][1]
3 3rd IWA Development Congress & Exhibition 14–17 October 2013 Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, Kenya [58][1]
4 2015 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 18–22 October 2015 King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, Dead Sea area, Jordan [59][1]
5 2017 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 13–16 November 2017 AySA Water Treatment Plant, General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina [49][1]
6 2019 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 1–5 December 2019 Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka [60][1]
7 2023 IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 10–14 December 2023 Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda [61]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ a b During the merger of IWSA and IAWQ in 1999, two co-presidents were tasked with overseeing a two-year transition period.
  2. ^ Tom Mollenkopf was elected for his first term in Lisbon in October 2019, and scheduled to assumed his presidency in 2020, but did not take office until May 2021 due to a postponement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  3. ^ Paul Reiter stepped down as Executive Director on 8 December 2012. Ger Bergkamp took over as interim Executive Director until he was eventually appointed as the new Executive Director of IWA in April 2013.
  4. ^ In January 2021, the IWA Publishing team relaunched the Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – AQUA, which became AQUA: Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society.
  5. ^ The IWA launched IWA Open Water Journal on 10 October 2016 at the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition 2016. After being renamed H2Open Journal, the first issue was published in July 2018.
  6. ^ The journal was first published by the Nordic Association of Hydrology in February 1970 as Nordic Hydrology Journal and remained under this title until August 2007 (volume 38, issue 4–5). From 2008, the scientific journal was adopted by the British Hydrological Society under the new title Hydrology Research.
  7. ^ The Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination was launched in March 2011. In January 2021, the IWA Publishing team relaunched the title as Water Reuse, with its first issue published in March.
  8. ^ The official journal of the World Water Council (WWC).
  9. ^ The journal's first issue was launched on 1 February 1966 and has been known by its current name since volume 52, issue 1. Former names include Proceedings - Canadian symposium on water pollution research from the first issue in 1966, Proceedings. Annual Symposium on Water Pollution Research, Water Pollution Research in Canada until 1979, Water Pollution Research Journal of Canada between 1980 and 1994, and underwent a name change most recently in 2017 from Water Quality Research Journal of Canada (between 1995 and 2016).
  10. ^ The journal Progress in Water Technology was launched in 1972 as a new series by publisher Pergamon Press on behalf of the International Association on Water Pollution Research (IAWPR), and renamed Water Science and Technology in 1981. Volume 1 in the series was Applications of New Concepts of Physical-Chemical Wastewater Treatment (Nashville Conference; 1972), volume 2 was Phosphorus in Fresh Water and the Marine Environment (London Conference; 1973), volume 3 was Management and Pollution Control Problems (Jerusalem Workshop Papers; 1973), while volume 4 was Toward a Unified Concept of Biological Waste Treat ment (Atlanta City Conference; 1973).
  11. ^ The journal was formerly published by the International Water Services Association (IWSA) as Water Supply. From 2000, the journal was brought under the Water Science and Technology umbrella as an adjunct. From volume 1, issue 1 in 2000, the magazine was called Water Science & Technology: Water Supply. From volume 19, issue 1, the magazine was renamed Water Supply.
  12. ^ The journal Ingeniería del agua is written in Spanish.
  13. ^ The 1st IWA Development Congress was originally scheduled to be held 6–10 September 2009.

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