28-30 March 2012
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Website: http://www.wwpr2012.gr/index.php?lang=en
Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2011 extended to 31 October 2011
Submission of full papers: 30 November 2011
Whoever works with water knows that, wastewater can both be a helping tool, as well as a possible threat. It can be utilized, as an alternative water resource and help save millions of cubic meters of fresh water, or it can contaminate even larger amounts, if disposed improperly, threatening the lives of millions. In a world, that water demand is increasing, the importance of that simple statement is significant. Especially for arid and semiarid areas of the globe, exactly like those surrounding the Mediterranean region.
Aim of the Wastewater Purification and Reuse Regional Conference, is to gather, under one roof, all of you that your research, your business or your daily activity, is related to the purification of the wastewater and its reuse, irrelevant where that takes place and for what purpose. We believe that through the presentation and discussion of technical and scientific achievements, as well as the exchange of experiences that each of you will bring along, we will be able to increase the water reuse parameter as a tool and reduce the wastewater parameter as a threat.
Proposed Themes:
Wastewater purification and water reuse legislation
Water reuse history Wastewater purification: membranes and other physical methodologies
Wastewater purification: chemical methods Wastewater disinfection
Pollutants in the final effluent
Pathogens in the final effluent
Pathogens: qualitatively and quantitatively monitoring
Pathogens re-generation after disinfection
Public health risks and issues
Public perspective towards water reuse
Effect of water reuse on soils and cultivations
Water reuse as part of a water management scheme
Wastewater purification economics Water reuse economics
Water reuse in non-agricultural related activities
Reuse of non municipal wastewaters
Designing and implementing a water reuse scheme
Case studies of water reuse schemes: opportunities, problems and solutions
