Water, Sewage & Effluent November December 2018 | Page 6

IWA 6th Regional Membrane Technology Conference India, as the host country for the IWA conference, provides a relevant context and should provide wide visibility especially considering that it is a vast country with a huge population in need of clean water and technologies for wastewater treatment. Efficient 2019 – 10th Annual IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Urban Water Management In its continuous search for solutions, the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group for Efficient Urban Water Management will bring the 10th IWA Efficient Conference to Manila, Philippines, on 13–16 January 2019. Efficient 2019 is hosted by two of the leading urban water companies in the Philippines: Metro Pacific Water and Maynilad Water Services. Urban water professionals are facing unprecedented pressures. Customers demand ever-higher standards of water and sanitation services; regulators impose stricter directives; and shareholders seek better returns from massive infrastructure investments. Added to this, ecological pressures compel water managers to prioritise adaptability and sustainability. Faced with increasingly complex challenges, how can urban water and wastewater professionals continue to ensure efficiency? The conference will bring together a high-calibre pool of urban water and wastewater professionals to reflect on shared challenges and promote efficient solutions. A simultaneous exhibition will feature some of the most innovative technologies from around the world. Pre-treatment Industrial Water 2018 Industrial Water 2018 is the biennial platform to discuss treatment questions and to find solutions. Held on 27–30 November 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, it is the information hub for all experts in industrial water management, from applied research, technology development, application solution providers, and industrial water users. Visit egocms.dechema.de//en/industrialwater for more. 4 Water Sewage & Effluent November/December 2018 Over the past few decades, sustainable development has been the motive for advanced technologies. Membrane-based technology for water treatment and wastewater treatment have been gaining importance. The World Water Report 2017 mentions that over 80% of the water is left untreated and released to the water bodies, thus polluting them. Membrane-based technologies assume significance due to the large volumes of water that can be treated effectively. The IWA 6th Regional Membrane Technology Conference, which takes place in Vadodara, Gujarat State, India, on 10–12 December 2018, is an attempt to bring together experts from across the countries to discuss the urgent need for developing advanced and sustainable solutions for water and wastewater treatment. The course aims to inform water professionals on how better to process water for analysis. UP course on water analysis and monitoring The water quality of natural water resources around the world is in a state of decline due to nutrient inputs from municipal, industrial, and agricultural activities. New efforts to reverse the trends towards hypertrophication (when a body of water becomes overly enriched with minerals and nutrients that induce excessive growth of plants and algae — this process may result in oxygen depletion of the water body) in water bodies require innovative evaluation, which leads to recommendations for advanced treatment of effluent sources. The current short course — Water Analysis and Monitoring — addresses the need to update water professionals on current and emerging methods for sampling, handling, analysis, and data management that have recently been developed to inform better decision-making for resource preservation. 19–23 November 2018 Pretoria [email protected] www.waterafrica.co.za