IWA2014Lisbon World Water Congress detailed topics for each congress theme

Theme 1: Cities and Basins of the Future Basins of the Future 1.05 Catchment management 1.10 Ecosystem and environmental flows 1.15 Groundwater management 1.20 Integrated Water Resources Management 1.25 River restoration 1.30 Transboundary water management 1.35 Water-related extreme events Cities of the future 1.40 Climate change impacts and urban flooding 1.45 Rainwater harvesting 1.50 Rehabilitation of natural assets 1.55 Resilient and decentralised systems 1.60 Transition to sustainable cities of the future 1.65 Urban drainage & sewerage 1.70 Water-energy-food nexus 1.75 Water-sensitive urban infrastructure Theme 2: Utility Management, Assets, Customers and Water Economics 2.05 Asset management 2.10 Customer management & communications 2.15 Demand management 2.20 Financing water infrastructure 2.25 Human resources, capacity building and professional development 2.30 Impacts of the financial crisis 2.35 Infrastructure rehabilitation 2.40 Procurement 2.45 Resource efficiency 2.50 Reticulation & distribution systems 2.55 Stakeholder engagement 2.60 Utilities & economics 2.65 Utility benchmarking 2.70 Water pricing policies 2.75 Water Safety Planning Theme 3: Water Reuse and Resource Recovery 3.05 Advanced membrane technologies for reuse 3.10 Biogas, co-digestion and co-generation 3.15 Biosolids treatment & beneficial reuse 3.20 Communication, education and public acceptance of reuse and recovery 3.25 Decentralised reuse schemes 3.30 Direct potable reuse 3.35 Dual pipeline systems 3.40 Economic evaluation of reuse 3.45 Energy efficiency and recovery in treatment systems 3.50 Fit for purpose treatment of wastewater 3.55 Greywater treatment & reuse 3.60 Multi-sector recovery & recycling: municipal, industrial, agricultural 3.65 Rainwater harvesting 3.70 Recycling & recovery of nutrients, chemicals, etc 3.75 Resource Recovery: water (reuse and recycling), energy, nutrients, materials 3.80 Use of natural barriers in reuse schemes 3.85 Wastewater reclamation 3.90 Water-energy interactions in the urban water cycle Theme 4: Protecting Human and Environmental Health 4.05 Chemical contamination and its effects

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Cyanobacteria Diffuse pollution Drinking water quality Drinking water tastes & odours Emerging contaminants & microplastics Eutrophication Health-related water microbiology Metals Micropollutants Nanoparticles Public health & epidemiology Risk assessment Toxicology Urban sanitation

Theme 5: Innovative Water Supply and Wastewater Technologies & Processes 5.05 Activated sludge processes 5.10 Adsorption & ion exchange 5.15 Advanced oxidation processes 5.20 Anaerobic processes 5.25 Biological treatment processes 5.30 Biofilm processes 5.35 Desalination 5.40 Disinfection 5.45 Drinking water treatment processes & plants 5.50 Membrane bioreactors 5.55 Membrane processes 5.60 Modelling treatment processes and systems 5.65 Particle separation processes 5.70 Physico-chemical treatment 5.75 Small-scale technologies 5.80 Wastewater treatment plants (design, operation, costs) Theme 6: New Industrial Water Management, Technologies & Processes 6.05 Water & waste management in: Agroindustries 6.10 Water & waste management in: Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals 6.15 Water & waste management in: Oil & Gas 6.20 Water & waste management in: Energy & Petrochemicals 6.25 Water & waste management in: Food & Beverages 6.30 Water & waste management in: Mining 6.35 Water & waste management in: Forestry, Pulp & Paper 6.40 Water & waste management in: Wineries 6.45 Effective industrial water interdependence with local competing uses 6.5 Onsite recycling & zero discharge 6.55 Water and Industrial Innovation 6.60 Water in the supply chain Theme 7: Water Policy, Governance and Regulation in a Changing World 7.05 Affordability of water services 7.10 Human right to water & sanitation 7.15 Incentives for efficiency 7.20 Incentives for innovation 7.25 Policy, governance and regulation post-2015 7.30 Planning for climate variation, flooding and drought 7.35 Private-public partnerships 7.40 Public participation 7.45 Regulation economic 7.50 Regulation quality of service 7.55 Role of NGOs 7.60 Sustainability global and local measures 7.65 Transboundary water management 7.70 Water footprint & virtual water

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Water and gender Water law Water and national science & technology policies Water stress, droughts & floods Water scenarios

Theme 8: Breakthrough Science and Technology for the Water Cycle 8.05 Advances in environmental and industrial biotechnology 8.10 Application of emerging LED technologies (UV/vis/IR) 8.15 Disruptive technologies (order of magnitude change) 8.20 Materials science and application breakthroughs (graphene, ) 8.25 Molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics 8.30 Nanofiltration & novel membrane systems 8.35 Nanotechnology/nanomaterial applications 8.40 New sensors and measurement techniques 8.45 Next-generation environmental technologies 8.50 Novel analytical & monitoring systems 8.55 Novel concepts in water systems management 8.60 Novel construction and rehabilitation technologies Theme 9: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Water 9.05 Data and Information Technology 9.10 Data mining 9.15 Decision support 9.20 ICT for capacity building 9.25 ICT for policy support 9.30 ICT in education & training 9.35 Instrumentation, control & automation 9.40 Integration of extended data sources 9.45 Mobile technology 9.50 Modelling & systems analysis 9.55 Remote operations 9.60 Smart data applications 9.65 Smart metering 9.70 Smart networks 9.75 Smart water grids 9.80 Use of social media