Harmonizing Marine Plastic Pollution Data in the East Asian Seas Regional cooperation and improved data practices can help address the challenge of plastic pollution more effectively.
Flowing Forward: Navigating Financial Resilience in Water Utility Corporations Among the remedial measures are boosting revenue generation, striving for expenditure efficiency, and unburdening liabilities.
Making and Telling Stories with Indigenous Peoples Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
Leading the Way to Green Development of Small and Medium-Sized Cities Environmentally friendly and climate-resilient solutions help develop green and sustainable small and medium-sized cities in the PRC.
Differentiating Between Environmental Quality Standards and Discharge Standards A better understanding of environmental standards—their differences and implications—can help developing countries better safeguard the environment.
Integrated Approaches and Institutional Reform for Equitable Supply of Safe Water to Rural Residents A project in Chaonan district in the People’s Republic China shows how to improve services in rural areas and small towns with scarce water resources.
Rehabilitating the Chao Lake Basin in the People’s Republic of China Strengthening the capacity of the new lake authority was a critical success factor in implementing an integrated lake basin management project.
Turn Water Losses to Gains: How District Metering Can Help Reduce Nonrevenue Water The experience of a water utility in Manila shows that dividing a large network into smaller zones improves leak detection and distribution efficiency.
Transforming an Industrial City into an Eco-Friendly Tourist City Huangshi in the People’s Republic of China is a model of systematic pollution control and ecological rehabilitation of lakes in small and medium-sized cities.
Improving Financial Sustainability in the Water Sector through Tariff Reforms Water utilities in many cities in the People’s Republic of China may have achieved high level of cost recovery because of increased tariffs.