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In the August 2010 edition of Water21

Erratum: the article 'Facing up to the lead legacy', p29-31, refers to a cost of €0.5 per cubic metre. The correct figure should be €0.005 per cubic metre.

Cover story
Footprint tools for Cities of the Future – moving towards sustainable urban water use.
The IWA Cities of the Future programme has been developed to devise alternative, more sustainable approaches to building city infrastructure that can adapt to and meet future challenges. Vladimir Novotny discusses how the use of ‘footprints’ could be used to assess the progress towards sustainability.

News
Including… Oil dispersants pass tests for use on Deepwater spill. Efforts to contain and counter the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are continuing, with BP capping the wellhead to contain the oil, but there is no sign yet of a complete solution to the massive oil discharges that are creating a huge environmental problem along the beaches of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
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Features
Including… Towards a healthier water environment: the IC Sewage collaboration. The International Collaboratory for Sewage (IC Sewage) has been established to improve understanding of the impact of wastewater on water quality and public health, part of which includes developing a new tool box for microbial source tracking (MST). Asli Aslan-Yilmaz, Warish Ahmed, Andreas Farnleitner, Yoshifumi Masago, Huw Taylor and Joan Rose explain IC Sewage’s goals and the need for MST.
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IWA News
Including… A bold vision for an evolving Association: addressing total urban water solutions in low and middle income countries. Ensuring that a balance of IWA’s services and activities are addressing the needs and demands of water professionals in low and middle income countries (LAMIC) is a challenge that we must rise to as the premier global network of water professionals. As such a key initiative in IWA’s strategy for the next decade is to accelerate the mainstreaming of LAMIC needs, activities, membership and leadership into IWA.
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Cover
Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm, the first sustainable ecocity in the developed world. Credit: Malena Karlsson. 

 

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