The WateReuse Association, our Australian affiliate – WateReuse Australia and the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) are pleased to announce our first specialty conference. Scheduled for Sydney in mid-November, 2010, this specialty conference will focus on practical aspects of water reuse and desalination as well as relevant research being conducted in the U.S. and Australia. The conference theme is Water Reuse and Desalination: Water Scarcity Solutions for the 21st Century. The conference will feature a blue ribbon assemblage of world class experts on these two vital components of the water supply equation.

The WateReuse Association and WSAA invite you to submit an abstract for this specialty conference.• Agricultural reuse
• Alternative drivers of water reuse
• Concentrate/brine management and disposal
• Conveyance, distribution, and storage system design
• Desalination case studies
• Advanced disinfection technologies
• Public education and outreach
• Environmental impacts – desalination
• Energy-water nexus – energy impacts, climate change, drought planning and management
• Environmental enhancement reuse
• Financing, pricing, and economics – desalination
• Financing, pricing, and economics – reuse
• Green building and reuse applications
• Natural Systems – including ASR and SAT
• Health effects and risk assessment
• Industrial reuse
• Membranes and MBRs
• Pharmaceuticals, personal care products, trace organics
• Operations/maintenance and operator issues
• Planning for water reuse and desalination
• Potable reuse
• Public acceptance/perception
• Regulatory, institutional, and legal issues – desalination
• Regulatory, institutional, and legal issues – reuse
• Salinity management
• Sustainability through reuse and desalination
• Source water augmentation for potable use
• Treatment technologies – desalination/reuse
• Urban reuse – golf courses, parks, landscape, residential
• Innovative reuse applications
• Research – Water Reuse and Desalination
 

For more information, visit the conference page on the WateReuse website.

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• Sustainability Theory
• Sustainability in Practice
• Effective Engagement Strategies
• Implementing Sustainability, and
• Sustainability Reporting

Designed with even the most experienced sustainability professional in mind, this action orientated program is set up to facilitate cross-learning and networking among participants. With a limit of only 30 participants per workshop, it will be a unique opportunity to extend your sustainability network.
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IWES now has registration open for its short courses in water, wastewater treatment and environment a l management both in Perth later this year and Sydney in 2010. From principals in wastewater treatment and membrane plant design, to seawater desalination and beyond, IWES has many different courses on offer suitable for a variety of industries and professionals.

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The drinking water supplies to Australia’s largest cities are beginning to benefit from the construction and operation of large seawater desalination plants following a belated recognition that the demand for water, particularly in the capital cities was outpacing the traditional replenishment by rainfall and floods. Large urban plants are operating in Perth and on the Gold Coast, and will others will shortly supply Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne. Inland, smaller desalination units are important for mining sites, regional towns and remote farming businesses.
All of these plants need to be manned by skilled operators and managed by engineers and scientists who understand the technology, how it works, what can go wrong and how to solve any problems to ensure continuity of supply.
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Delegates will have the opportunity to see for themselves or participate in discussion on: the South East Queensland Water Supply Grid; operation of a significant desalination plant; the largest recycled water scheme in the country designed for
Indirect Potable Reuse of water and third largest in the world; new regulatory systems for Indirect Potable Reuse of water; implementation of one of Australia’s most successful demand management campaigns; innovative approaches to water management in the urban environment; outputs from a significant water security research agenda; new approaches to water utility and regulatory institutional arrangements; leading edge approaches to water resource planning and provisions for environmental flows; successful examples of improving the health of waterways and estuaries, and more.
Registration is now open. For more information