EWWM - 4th European Water and Wastewater Management Conference: Reducing The Environmental Footprint Of The Water Industry

The theme for this year's European Water and Waste Management Conference is "Reducing the Environmental Footprint of the Water Industry". Throughout Europe the water industry has made great strides over the past twenty years in treating water and wastewater to the standards required by European legislation.  The investment in the infrastructure to achieve this has been vast and it leaves a legacy of asset maintenance to be borne by future generations.  Achieving improvements in the quality of potable water and treated effluent comes with an additional cost in that the environmental footprint of these assets is now significant.  There are increasingly urgent calls to minimise our carbon emissions and with a rapidly shrinking timeframe to achieve the cuts thought necessary to avert irreversible major global warming.  Thus it is timely to examine the contribution of the water industry to GHG emissions and to examine present and future technologies intended to minimise these impact.

The main themes for this year's events are:

• Legislatory Overview
• The Sewer as a Solids Transport Systen
• Improving Water Management
• Pumps and Pumping
• Potable Water Treatment
• Resource Recovery
• Carbon and Energy Management
• On-Site Generation of Renewable Energy
• Innovation
• Sensors and Instrumentation

If you are interested in contributing to the programme further details are available in the Call for Presentations page - please note the Deadline for Abstracts 26th March 2010

Download the Call for Presentations brochure

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