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Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewaters

24 November 2017, London, UK

Join our speakers…

• Rachel Gomes, University of Nottingham, UK
• Benedek G. Plósz, University of Bath, UK
• Sara Rodríguez-Mozaz, Universitat de Girona, Spain
• Thomas Berendonk, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Andrew Singer, NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK
• William Gaze, University of Exeter Medical School, UK
• Alistair Boxall, University of York, UK
• Nicholas Gathergood, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Jerker Fick, Umeå University, Sweden
• Jason Snape, AstraZeneca, UK

and a diverse range of delegates discuss the latest issues and solutions to address antimicrobial resistance in wastewater treatment. The meeting forms part of a two day meeting, the first day (23^rd November) focuses on Novel Therapeutics and Drug Discovery, organised in conjunction with the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. RSC members can attend both days and will receive discounted member rates. Day rates are also available.

Register by 8th November to attend!

To find out more and register, please visit the webpage

Congratulations to Suhaib, who won the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology prize for young rapporteur at World Water Week, where he participated as an assistant and a junior social rapporteur!

Suhaib M. Ibrahim is a passionate water Resources engineer from Sudan. He studied civil engineering at Khartoum University, Sudan, and then has had an experience of three years as an irrigation engineer, where he has worked with a wide range of agricultural, irrigation, and infrastructure projects different in scales. Later on, he decided to further his education and Currently He is doing a master degree in water resources engineering at Lund University, Sweden.

Coming from a technical background, he has developed a big fond for the social sciences, economy and humanitarian in general, trying to link it with the technical knowledge and combining them together when trying to attain sustainable integrated solution for Water arising issues. You can always reach him at Suhaib.eng@gmail.com , or Suhaib M. Ibrahim @ LinkedIn

Read his summary of the event and watch his winning interview below!

Hosted and organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Water Week is the leading annual global event for concretely addressing the planet’s water issues and related concerns of international development.

World Water Week 2017 was carried out under the theme “Water and Waste: Reduce and reuse”. It consisted of more than 200 sessions of different formats and covering a range of subjects.

There were three reporting teams to cover all those sessions; economical, environmental, and social (my team). I was a junior rapporteur and our amazing team was responsible for covering and reporting all the social-related sessions, it was a great effort. and it was the best opportunity for me with my technical background to have such diverse angle of ­sight, although it was really challenging, but I love new challenges. During the week we had the (daily splash) an opportunity for us to talk (on a live stream) about our impressions about the experience and what we would like to say as young water professionals in the water sector.

The point I wanted to outline the most was that we as engineering students we don’t really get exposed to all different aspects of water issues, that’s why always our solutions are technical focused, ignoring the socio- economic factors and lacking the holistic approach, and now I am trying to get a closer look to those aspects. with all the diversified background of people, expertise, politicians and international NGOs, the week was the perfect opportunity for that.

https://www.facebook.com/SIWIwater/videos/10155743347972164/?hc_ref=ARTHoR7SDwZPUJnx67uhzN9aKkjnF03hKCboSaXFoDFVqDB-_L70dRHvRZXxbwpcw6Q&pnref=story

The International IWA conference on sustainable solutions for small water and wastewater treatment systems (S2small2017) will be held on October 22-26 in Nantes, France.

Small2017 co-organized by IMT Atlantique, GEPEA , IWA and ASTEE will be held in Nantes (city congress center). S2small2017 will address the latest advances in the field of water and wastewater management for small systems and decentralized approaches.

This joint conference will bring together the 14^th IWA Specialized Conference on Small Water and Wastewater Systems (SWWS) together with the 6^th IWA Specialized Conference on Resources-Oriented Sanitation (ROS) and the 3rd International Conference Terra Preta Sanitation & Decentralized Wastewater System.

The event is a continuation of the previous successful Conferences of the 11^th SWWS (Harbin, China), the 12^th SWWS and 4th ROS (Muscat, Oman), the 13^th SWWS and 5^th ROS (Athens, Greece) and the 2^nd TPS (Goa, India).

S2small2017 is intended to:

• Researcher specialized in environmental sciences
• Engineers working in research and development
• Stakeholders from the water sector (local community, water agencies etc.)
• Entrepreneurs…

The scope of our conference is to go beyond the simple assumption that small water and wastewater systems are technically feasible and working to answer specific needs under many different configurations. The scope of our conference is to demonstrate that small water and wastewater systems represent part of the solution for the future of humanity, from theoretical concepts up to very applied cases study our conference will show that small is smart, small is beautiful, small is efficient, small is affordable, small is generous in other words small is the future!

Only small solutions for water and wastewater will enable to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 6: « Ensure access to water and sanitation for all ». Only small water and wastewater solutions will help to increase water re-use, water recycle and resource recovery from wastewater. If you also believe that small water and wastewater systems represent tomorrow’s solutions do not hesitate anymore and come to S2small2017 to share your knowledge, meet the main actors in the field, strengthen your network in a wonderful city (surrounded by water) and in a region where small water solutions are really developed!

Register by 21st October to attend!

The 15^th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion (AD-15) is taking place om Beijing, China on 17th to 20th October 2017.

Anaerobic technology is widely adopted as a cost-effective way to waste (water) treatment, and has currently transferred from sole waste (water) treatment to integrated measure of waste-to-resource recovery, e.g. carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, sulfur, biogas, biofuels, etc. It can be expected that the demand of technical innovation for fossil energy substitution, nutrients circulation, and efficient wastes management would increase continuously due to the global carbon emission reduction pressure. This indicated that we are standing at the turning point of reframing the future anaerobic technology towards a more sustainable world. Therefore, this conference will mainly target the most promising technologies that could significantly boost the development of AD globally, and will emphatically address cutting-edge and emerging technologies with high acceptability to industries during a three-day event.

The main topics for the conference include:

• Anaerobic-Centric Technology for Industrial and Municipal Wastewater Treatment
• Innovative/Emerging Anaerobic Technologies
• Anaerobic Technology for Resource Recovery
• Anaerobic Technology for Agricultural Waste Treatment
• Low Cost Anaerobic Technology

To find out more and register your place, visit the conference website – http://ad15.medmeeting.org/en 

Key Date:

Registration deadline: 1st October 2017

The Conference on Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery: Research, Planning, Design and Operation is being held in Chongqing, China on 7th – 10th November 2017.

The Conference will be an international meeting point for scientists, engineers, managers, and entrepreneurs, providing an opportunity to review and assess research and management practices on nutrient removal, aimed at improving natural dynamic processes and pollution control, in particular planning, operation, performance, and economics of wastewater treatment.

The conference program will include presentations on research and projects undertaken worldwide.  Some of the most important Chinese and international nutrient removal and recovery experts will be invited to present papers on subjects within their areas of expertise. These include Professor Willy Verstraete, Professor Hallvard Odegaard, Professor Norbert Jardin and Professor Helmut Kroiss.

Key Dates:

Early Bird Registration Deadline: 15th September 2017

World Water Week, organised by SIWI, is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 27th August to 1st September 2017.

This year, World Water Week will address the theme “water and waste: reduce and reuse”. Experts, practitioners, decision-makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries come to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today. They believe water is key to our future prosperity, and that together, we can achieve a water wise world.

This years prgramme is set to be a good one, with more than 200 sessions of different formats, covering a range of relevant topics and includes plenary sessions from Karolina Skog, Minister of Environment, Sweden; Guang Z. Chen, Senior Director, Water Global Practice World Bank Group; and Beatriz Merino, Executive President of Cesar Vallejo University, Peru . They are also holding a range of Young Professional Activities to engage and empower the young people attending the event.

Register by 26th August to secure your place!

The 2nd International Resource Recovery Conference is taking place at Columbia University,  New York on 5th – 9th August 2017. 

The conference will bring together international leaders from research, academia and industry for important discussions around resource recovery as it pertains to the human climate-water-life cycle. A particular focus will be placed on facilitating solutions to providing renewable energy, clean water, and food security to the globe’s most vulnerable populations.

The first two days of the conference comprises of a series of workshops, covering topics such as “Exploring the next generation resource recovery platforms” and  “Role of nature-based systems in decentrilised approaches for linking sanitation to energy and food security”. The program for the rest of the week consists of oral and poster sessions on a variety of topics, including:

• Nutrient Recovery
• Sanitation and Development
• Emerging Technologies for Resource Recovery
• Recovery of Additional Materials
• Water Reuse

Register now to book your place!

The 10th International Conference on Biofilm Reactors is taking place on 9th-12th May in Dublin, Ireland. The event, which is being jointly organised by University College Dublin and the International Water Association, aims to bring together both practitioners and researchers to disseminate new knowledge and to link practical application with basic sciences. Confirmed speakers include: Kim Sorensen, (WABAG, Switzerland), Rene Rozendal (Paques, The Netherlands), Rob Nerenberg (University of Notre Dame).

Register now to book your place!

Graduate students from Georgetown University are pleased to host the Spring 2017 Graduate Student Symposium, “Water Sustainability: Chemists in Pursuit of Clean Water”, at the 253rd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The symposium aims to address the global water crisis and discuss how chemists are making an impact on the issues of water sustainability.

Check out the symposium website to get all the latest information at

http://georgetowngsspc.weebly.com/

We look forward to seeing you in lovely San Francisco!

The 9th Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference is an annual conference organised by the International Water Association (IWA), specifically aimed at people under 35 who work in this area. This year, the conference will take place on 24-27th May 2017  in Budapest, Hungary with a theme of “Cross-Border Cooperation of Old, New and Candidate Countries of EU, for identifying problems, finding causes and solutions”. The conference include poster and oral presentations, as well as workshops a technical tour, and cultural excursions. Visit their website for more details!

Key Date:

Registration Deadline – 1st April

Can’t make the conference, but would like to be engaged with young water professionals? Why not read our Emerging Investigators series in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology – http://rsc.li/emerging-series