Applications Invited for Resource Recovery Cluster Best Practice Award 2025

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Water underpins every aspect of human and environmental existence. The severe water challenges facing the world today require an unprecedented global response. IWA members are situated in 140 countries worldwide, forming the largest international network of water professionals working towards a water wise world.

Innovative, solutions- and service- oriented, we work across a range of areas that contribute to the progression of water management worldwide. Transformation cannot take place on its own in a vacuum. Rather the ideas for solutions to these challenges will be fomented and rigorously debated among the IWA’s institutions and membership.

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.

Our programmes develop research and projects focused on solutions for water and wastewater management; we organise world-class events that bring the latest science, technology and best practice to the water sector at large; we work to place water on the global political agenda and to influence best practice in regulation and policy making; and we do this via the IWA’s global membership.

About the Award

IWA’s Resource Recovery from Water Cluster is now calling for nominations for the Resource Recovery Cluster Best Practice Award 2025.

Driven by environmental, economic, societal and ecological benefits, resource recovery from water treatment has drawn attention worldwide. Recovering resources from water and wastewater can provide an alternative and economically viable source of resources supporting the resilience of human and natural systems under water stress. Resources from the water cycle can be water itself, energy (organic or thermal) and components such as nutrients and metals.

In partnership with KWR Water Research Institute and AquaMinerals, the IWA Resource Recovery Cluster seeks to recognise best practices in resource recovery applied at full or demonstration scale in the water cycle, which can serve as exemplary solutions that can be applied more widely.

The IWA Resource Recovery Cluster Best Practice Award will be presented during the 6th IWA International Resource Recovery Conference in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands from 19-23 May 2025. The winner will receive a trophy and certificate honouring their best practice and will be invited to present this during the conference.

The following criteria will be used to select the best practice in resource recovery from water:

• Innovative character of the best practice in resource recovery
• Replication potential
• Positive environmental impact
• Active cooperation with all stakeholders within the value chain of the recovered resource
• Positive business case

How to Apply

To submit your nomination, please complete the nomination application form before 5 May through the online form.

Complete all fields in the online application and upload all required documents, including a video recording of max. 2-3 minutes. Incomplete entries will not be considered. Self-nominations are encouraged and welcomed.

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