In 97 AD, Sextus Julius Frontinus inherited Rome's nine aqueducts—800 km
of conduit serving over one million people—and found a system crippled not
by poor engineering but by poor management. Leaks, theft, silted channels,
and neglected maintenance drained capacity that never reached citizens. His
response? Not new aqueducts. A comprehensive audit. Two millennia later,
the global water industry loses $39–50 billion annually to non-revenue
water. The problems are identical. The solutions Frontinus documented still
work. Boring management still beats heroic technology.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite's award-winning documentary follows investigative journalists uncovering how sovereign powers, corporations, and mercenary groups are racing to control the world's food and water supplies. For water operators managing canals, reservoirs, and irrigation infrastructure, the message is both alarming and deeply personal.

Edward Barbier asks the question every water professional should confront: if water is so valuable and increasingly scarce, why is it so consistently mismanaged? His answer — spanning millennia, dozens of countries, and rigorous economic analysis — concludes that the global water crisis is not primarily about running out of water. It is about institutional failure, chronic underpricing, and governance structures that incentivize waste over efficiency. With 2.1 billion people still lacking safe water access and U.S. utilities losing $6.4 billion annually to non-revenue water, Barbier's diagnosis has never been more urgent.

Rescue Engineers announced Feb. 12 it will invest several million dollars to increase its operational capacity for the California public water utilities market to address new regulations involving hexavalent chromium. […] The post Rescue Engineers invests to address new California hexavalent chromium regulations appeared first on Water Canada.

In order to meet the requirements of existing water legislation Member States require an additional annual average investment of €23 billion according to European Commission estimates. Current investment in the EU water services sector averages €33 billion per year (excluding figures for Croatia, The Netherlands, and Slovakia) according to the most recent EurEau data survey. […] The post Massive investment gap looms for the European water sector appeared first on Water News Europe.

The Southern Plains states get a severe drought about once a decade, but long-lasting droughts lately have been leaving farms, rangeland and water sources with too little time to recover.