8th IWA Specialist Group Conference on Waste Stabilization Ponds

DATE: April 26 to 30, 2009 - VENUE: Belo Horizonte/MG

We are very pleased to welcome you to participate in the 8th IWA Specialist Group Conference on Waste Stabilization Ponds - Advances and Innovations in Pond Treatment Technology. The conference will be held in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from 26 to 30 April 2009.

The conference will follow the traditional format of the very successful previous conferences (Portugal, USA, Brazil, Morocco, New Zealand, France and Thailand). Oral and poster presentations will be combined with keynote speeches addressing the latest advances and innovations in this very important wastewater treatment process, widely applied throughout the world. Technical visits to pond systems will be organized.

Within the main conference there will be a branch in which the "2nd IWA Latin-American conference on stabilization ponds" will be accommodated. This will be a follow-up of the excellent first conference that took place in Colombia in 2000.

The main conference will be entirely in English (keynote speeches, oral and poster presentations), whereas in the Latin-American branch the two official languages will be Portuguese and Spanish. This flexible format will allow easy participation of delegates from the region and from all over the world.

The conference will be an excellent opportunity, not only to deep into the technological developments, but also to meet old friends and the international experts, researchers and practitioners, who are paving the way to the utilization of pond systems throughout the world.

Belo Horizonte is a pleasant and large city, easily accessible by planes, and April is a period with enjoyable mild weather. The conference will facilitate informal communication, and casual dress may be used all times.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Belo Horizonte during April 2009.

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Prof. Marcos von Sperling
Organizing Committee Chairman

News

  • November 11th, 2008

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