The International Water Association is an open, yet ordered platform in which both innovators and adopters of new technologies and approaches can generate creative friction. It is a place for diffusion, benchmarking and evidence.

Moreover, IWA’s programmes develop research and projects focused on solutions for water and wastewater management; it organises world-class events that bring the latest science, technology and best practice to the water sector at large; it works to place water on the global political agenda and to influence best practice in regulation and policy making.