Abstract Submissions for the Technical Program

Abstract submissions from two to four pages will be accepted from Monday, January 20 – April 1, 2025, on technical solutions related to the following topics:

Topic 1: Tackling Water Scarcity: Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies: Best Practices and Case Studies

• Technologies & operation practices to increase the efficiency and decarbonization of new and existing water treatment plants
• AI, ML and/or digitization case studies for municipal and industrial water production
• Direct and indirect potable reuse
• Non-potable and agricultural re-use
• Water quality monitoring and control
• Industrial water reuse and recycling
• Best practices in reuse
• Health concerns in water reuse

Topic 2: Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies: Innovation, emerging technologies, research and development

• New and/or enhanced membrane technologies
• Advanced water reuse and recycling technologies
• Hybrid systems and integration with renewable energy
• Decentralized desalination and water reuse systems

Topic 3: Circular Water Economy, Water Stewardship, and Decarbonization

• Using natural resources efficiently and minimizing waste.
• Practices that support long-term environmental health, such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy use, and reducing carbon footprints.
• Reducing pollution by adopting cleaner production methods, minimizing emissions, and managing waste effectively.
• Restoring and rehabilitating damaged ecosystems and watersheds, such as reforestation, wetland restoration, and habitat protection, aquifer recharge, basin management and replenishment

Topic 4: Sustainable Water Management in Industry, Agriculture & Municipal Sectors: Optimizing water use with socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable practices

• Efficient irrigation and water management
• Green manufacturing -sustainable production methods that minimize water use and emissions, integrating renewable energy and green chemistry.
• Improving infrastructure
• ZLD and MLD case studies: municipal, mining, food & beverage.
• Implementation of “Demand Management Programs”
• Desalination brine mining and resource recovery

Topic 5: Policy and Financing to Address Water Scarcity

• Water quality monitoring and health: asddressing PFAS/PFOS, microplastics, and pollutants.
• Implementation of direct and in-direct potable reuse
• Intake and outfall systems, distribution network and systems, smart infrastructure
• Water usage optimization
• New creative financing structures to optimize water cost
• ESG Financing, green bonds, innovations in securities and guarantees
• Government initiatives for water cost management, tax reforms, grants, and carbon reductions
• Negative finance incentives to leverage water cost reduction project delivery
• Models for Big-Desal
• Big data for financing models
• Long-term successes with project models and financing
• Desalination price challenges and realities: water price, inflation, conflicts, interest rates increase, and their impact on water availability
• Financing adaptation to particular conditions to a project location

AUTHOR SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

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For more information contact papers@idrawater.org.