Conference Themes

Water distribution network planning and management

• Impact of climate change on Water Distribution Systems; issues, adaptations and management strategies

• Water distribution network modelling and demand forecasting

• Water distribution network optimization: planning, design, rehabilitation, and expansion

• Water distribution network control: transient analysis, network sectoring, leakage and energy management

• Drinking-water quality: biofilm, discoloration, and contaminant intrusion

• Disinfection residuals strategies, modelling and management

• Emerging contaminants

• Leakage - PALM (prevent, aware, locate, mend)

• Water security, reliability, and resilience in the water distribution systems

• Benchmarking in water distribution networks

• Advances in premise plumbing modelling

• Practical applications: laboratory, case studies, demonstration projects

IoT in Urban Water Systems: digital twin, sensors, data management

• Big Data and Machine Learning techniques and analysis in urban water networks

• Data-driven and soft computing analytics and visualisation in water industry

• Digital Twins in urban water systems

• Advances in sensors, communication technologies, and forecasting in water networks

• Data management in water networks: real-time monitoring, SCADA, and ICT

• GIS and BIM applications for integrated urban water system modelling and management

• Emerging technologies in water, sewer, drainage, and irrigation networks

• Water and wastewater treatment modelling, optimization, and control

• Cyber security

• Practical applications: laboratory, case studies, demonstration projects

Advances in urban drainage and sewers

• Impact of climate change on Urban Drainage Systems; issues, adaptations and management strategies

• Wastewater and storm water quality modelling, including sediment and pollutant transport

• Storm water control: sustainable urban drainage solutions and blue-green solutions

• Combined Sewer Overflow solutions

• Advances in sewer and drainage modelling and design

• Reliability, and resilience in the urban drainage systems

• Practical applications: laboratory, case studies, demonstration projects

Intermittent Water Systems and urban water systems in emergency conditions

• Intermittent water supply: modelling and operation

• Demand modelling under intermittent conditions

• Safety, resilience and reliability of Intermittent Water Systems

• Analysis of marginal water systems

• Water quality in Intermittent Water Systems

• Transition to continuous water systems

• urban water system management under emergency situations: pandemic detection and control, water shortage, natural disasters

Social, management and economic aspects of the water systems 

• Policy and regulation

• Resilience planning across the water cycle and the community;

• Collaboration of local and regional government agencies with water service providers;

• Impacts of digital transformation on society, citizens, and businesses;

• Cross-sectoral governance: Partnerships and cooperation in and beyond the water sector;

• Wastewater surveillance and open access data;

• Decentralised water supply and sanitation management approaches.