About the conference

The IWA Water & Energy 2009 conference is organised by The Danish National Committee for International Water Association in cooperation with IWA Specialist Group on Climate Change.

Conference Objectives

• To present and share knowledge related to:
  • recution of emission of greenhouse gasses and energy consumption in the water sector
  • increased water savings and reuse as well as energy recovery in the water sector
  • reduction of pressure on water resources from the energy sector
• to explore potential synergies between the two sectors
• to strengthen and further develop professional relations between the two sectors
• to define and refine core messages from the water utility sector to COP15

Conference Topics

Management track:

• Incentives and management plans for:
  • water savings / reuse in households, industry and society
  • energy savings in water utilities (including wastewater)
  • power sector issues in rivershed management plans
  • smart metering of water and energy, motivation of customer responses
    
• Evaluation and regulatory tools:
  • Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) concepts and use in management decisions
  • benchmarking systems for water and energy related issues - how to compare efficiencies.
  • financial instruments (CO2 trading, water pricing, dynamic demand-response based power pricing)
  • regulatory concepts for improving energy efficiency in the water sector
  • carbon and and eco-footprinting
     
• Enabling faster innovation incentives and driving forces
   
• New strategies and business models
  • integrating emissions saving from water and energy use

Technical - scientific track:

• New water/wastewater treatment concepts and technologies versus energy efficiency
  • scientific understanding - ongoing research
  • technical development and demonstrations
  • practical applications at full scale
  • Green Chemistry applications
  • optimisation of operation by instrumentation, control and automation
  • design of pumping and treatment facilities
  • challenging conservative [pre-carbon] design codes
  • water quality versus energy requirements
     
• New and existing synergies between water and energy sectors
  • biogas for power production / vehicle transport
  • heat pumps for district heating and cooling
  • new forms of energy recovery, etc.
  • decentralised integrated energy production and water treatment
    (wind-, wave- and solar energy, microbial fuel cells, etc.)
  • carbon capture - carbon sequestration
  • interdependency between the two sectors