WATER QUALITY 2012 - water quality conference

WATER QUALITY 2012

Protecting Our Water Resources: Issues for a Changing World
19-21 September 2012
http://www.accwa.net/the-project/water-quality-201...
JinXi Hotel & Conference Centre, HangZhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Local chair: Dr Zhijian Zhang, Zhejiang University, China.

Please note that the call for sessions deadline has been extended to 02 December 2011.
The call for abstracts is now open.

Conference organised by: Zhejiang University, China
Partner institutes: University of Leeds, UK and University of Illinois, USA

Aims

Water Quality 2012 will consider the range of issues and challenges that affect global water quality. By providing a forum for researchers, industry, policymakers and other stakeholders, the conference will identify the key concerns and big challenges of the future.

Themes

The following list highlights some of the themes that will be considered by Water Quality 2012. Delegates are encouraged to specify which theme better fits their abstract at abstract submission.

Water policy and management: implications of climate change
Water resources: monitoring and modelling
Water quality: urban and rural concerns
Water supply: groundwater and surface water sustainability
Water extremes: floods and droughts
Conference news

Call for sessions

The deadline for session has been extended to 02 December 2011!

Water Quality 2012 offers a unique forum to discuss the many issues that affect the quality of water, from land management to water treatment processes. After 02 December, all session proposals will be evaluated by the scientific committee.

As a session organiser you may actively seek the submission of abstracts among colleagues. You will be asked to review both the solicited and non-solicited abstracts submitted to the proposed topic, and propose a session programme (including oral and poster presentations) to the scientific committee. The scientific committee, in consultation with the session organiser/s, will agree the final programme.

If your proposal results in a session at Water Quality 2012, you will be invited to chair this session at the meeting. The role of a Session Chair at the meeting is to give a short introduction at the start of the session, chair the session to ensure it runs to time and give a short summary of the presentations at the end of the session. Also you will be asked to provide a written summary to the scientific committee for inclusion in the conference proceedings (published online) and for use in the closing plenary session to highlight the key points arising from the conference.

Your session proposal should have the following format:

? Session title: max 100 characters, reading as a normal sentence;
? Session description / motivation: max 500 words;
? Topic: please choose one of the following topics within the framework of “Protecting Our Water Resources: Issues for a Changing World”:

(1) Water policy and management: implications of climate change
(2) Water resources: monitoring and modelling
(3) Water quality: urban and rural concerns
(4) Water supply: groundwater and surface water sustainability
(5) Water extremes: floods and droughts