Browsing: Water

The fifth instalment of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Collective Conversations on Science for Society series, held on 27 July 2026, explored the urgent need to rethink water and waste management as South Africa grapples with deteriorating water infrastructure, climate change and increasing urban demand. The latest event in this series was titled: “Rethinking water and…

Eighteen months after becoming the first European Commissioner whose portfolio title explicitly includes water resilience, Jessika Roswall is overseeing one of the most consequential pieces of EU water legislation in decades and the rollout of the European Water Resilience Strategy. The revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is moving into implementation, the European Water Resilience Strategy…