IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Call for Papers and Workshops

Dear Water New Zealand Member

This is your last chance to make sure that the rest of the world learns about New Zealand’s water expertise!

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. The World Water Congress & Exhibition will create new insights into how pioneering science, technological innovation and leading practices shape the major transformation in water management that is underway. As the Congress rotates through cities and countries each event has an extra emphasis on issues of specific interest to the region.

Brisbane 2016 will highlight water and industry, responding to water scarcity (desalination, reuse, etc) and geographically on the Asia-Pacific. If you have been involved in a Pacific Islands related project there is a special interest from IWA in abstracts on that theme.

The deadline for submitting papers was 15 October 2015 and over 1300 submissions have already been received. These papers are now being reviewed to assess their suitability for presentation in Brisbane next year.

However, to ensure that the issues discussed at the Congress are fully reflective of the interests and expertise from New Zealand, there is one last chance for you to submit a paper or workshop proposal for consideration. As such the submission portal will remain open until 27 November 2015 – please go to the Congress website www.worldwatercongress.org for instructions on how to submit your paper or make a workshop proposal.

To date 9 New Zealand abstracts have been submitted. Feel free to circulate this email to universities or other colleagues who may be interested in attending.

And, of course, given that your presentation will be well polished by the time IWA is over, don’t forget to submit your abstract to the Water New Zealand conference which is on the following week in Rotorua.

John Pfahlert

Chief Executive