World Water Professionals to Meet

An extensive programme of workshops, discussions and presentations explores a range of current and future challenges facing the water sector through seven key themes:
• Cities of the future - Developing new paradigms for highly efficient urban water services in new and existing cities throughout the world.
• Managing utilities and their assets - Meeting the evolving service challenges and triple bottom line objectives in developing and developed countries from strategic management to operations and maintenance.
• Science and application of water management - Exploring advances in fundamental water science, research and technology related to urban drainage, and the management and treatment of water, wastewater and stormwater.
• Securing new and traditional water sources for the future - Understanding the technologies and practices behind new water and the emerging opportunities they provide for water security.
• Water, ecosystems and catchments - Managing and using surface water and groundwater resources to enhance ecosystem health.
• Water and health - Safeguarding public health through effective interventions for water, sanitation and hygiene.
• Water, climate and energy - Developing strategies for adapting and optimising water services in the context of population growth, climate change and related energy impacts.

Keynote speakers include:
• John Carey (Director General at Environment Canada)
• William (Bill) Cosgrove (former Vice-President of the World Bank, Ecoconsult Inc, Canada)
• Chad Holliday (former Chairman of DuPont, USA)
• Helmut Kroiss (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Arjun Thapan (Asian Development Bank, Singapore)
• Khoo Teng Chye (Chief Executive of Public Utilities Board, Singapore)

Principal sponsors of the Congress are ITT, Suez Environnement and Veolia Water.