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14th IWA Specialized Conference on the Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants. On behalf of the International Water Association (IWA) and its Specialist Group on Design, Operation and Costs of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants, it is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the IWA Specialised Conference “Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants”. The conferences on Large Wastewater Treatment Plants (LWWTP) are the most traditional specialised conferences organized by IWA specialist groups. The first conference (at that time called “workshop”) was held in Vienna and then was repeated in four-year periods in Vienna and since 1987 also in Budapest and Prague. This conference is the 14th conference in the series. The last conferences of the specialist group were held in Budapest (2011), Prague (2015) and Vienna (2020 postponed and finally cancelled due to COVID 19).

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition brings together stakeholders and key contacts within the conventional water sector and beyond. It brings together core water sector groups, such as those focused on urban water and urban water services, as well as participants from industry and agriculture, architects and urban planners, soil and groundwater experts and hydrologists, social scientists, the ICT sector, the financial sector, and others. With a strong representation and contribution from Canada and North America, the IWA Congress & Exhibition is a vital opportunity to learn about the North-Atlantic water challenges and solutions, including through technical site visits. The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2024 follows the resounding success of the 2022 World Water Congress & Exhibition edition held in Copenhagen, Denmark. With a remarkable turnout of nearly 8,900 participants, it was a truly celebrated event.

The conference venue is the beautiful island of Phuket within the city of Patong. This convenient location offers a diversity of lodging options at various price points. Direct flights to Phuket are available from Europe, United Sates of America, China, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. The conference will offer opportunities for technical and tourism visits. We encourage you to register early as the venue has limited vacancies and many delegates already have committed to attending this important forum. As local hosts, we are ready to great you with famous Thai hospitality.

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. As the Congress rotates through cities and countries each event has an extra emphasis on issues of specific interest to the region. The upcoming edition taking place in Copenhagen will have as key focus the digital economy, smart and liveable cities, entrepreneurship and diffusion of innovation, climate change adaptation , community and customer engagement, and sustainability.

The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. However, 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 (mining and resource extraction), responding to water scarcity (desalination, reuse, etc) and geographically on the Asia-Pacific. 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. You will join over 5000 leading professionals and companies from across the water sector, including thought leaders from within and outside the water sector.

Water resources crisis is one of the top obstacles restricting the world’s sustainable development. Water reclamation and reuse has been considered as a promising way to mitigate the global water resources risks. Known as ‘world factory’, China has been dealing with problems like water resource shortage and water pollution control for over decades. Holding the IWA Water Reuse Specialist Group conference 2015 in China will be beneficial for reviewing the recent advances in water reuse research. It will also provide an interacting platform for exchange of ideas between scientists, engineers, environmentalists, managers, consultants, administrators and regulators, student researchers from other countries with the Chinese counterparts.

The IWA Regional Conference on Water Reuse and Energy focuses specifically on urgent and important issues in water-energy nexus. This conference will provide platforms to share and discuss the following key topics related to water and energy: science and technology in water reuse, potable and non-potable water reuse, water-energy nexus in water reuse, desalination and concentrate management in water reuse, emerging contaminants and reused water qualities, smart management in water reuse and recycle, and policies and economics of water reuse.

The 2014 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition benefits from its host city, Lisbon. Portugal has continued evolving solutions to its historic and recent water challenges between the city’s aqueducts and canals at the mouth of the Tagus River and the international management of the five river basins it shares with Spain. The city is an inexpensive favourite with travellers from the world over. Its vintage trams show you around the photogenic architecture of its palaces and aqueducts. Or get outdoors into the soft light by visiting the beaches around its harbour, walk the parks, or get active with surfing and dolphin-watching.

The IWA Development Congress and Exhibition provides a unique opportunity to signpost best practices, applied research and enabling policies to meet the water and sanitation challenges of today and tomorrow in an increasingly urbanizing world. The learning outcomes from the 2nd IWA Development Congress and Exhibition in 2011 reaffirmed some our traditional understandings but also challenged conventional thinking about how we better prepare ourselves for an uncertain future.