Prof Sharon Velasquez-Orta, who leads EBNet’s Bioelectrochemical Systems WG, attended the 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition held in Glasgow last month, and has provided feedback for EBNet members. Her summary covers a wide range of events and activities, from keynote speeches to specialist group sessions. We’ll be picking …
A great opportunity to access an invaluable new contribution on evaluating N2O emissions from wastewater treatment plants, which the International Water Association (IWA) has made available in open access eBook format. N2O is the main contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at many wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), but there is …
Abstracts deadline: 20 Oct 2026 Date and venue: 24-28 May 2027, Ghent, Belgium The IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies (LET 2027) is designed as a place to share the latest insights into how pioneering science and innovation in technologies and practices will shape the major transformation …
Abstract deadline: 30 Sept 2026 Date and place: 12-16 Sept 2027 Vienna, Austria. The International Water Association (IWA) and the Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management at TU Wien are hosting the 15th IWA Specialist Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants. The programme will …
Date and venue: 25-27 Jan 2027, Cape Town, South Africa The IWA Global Sanitation Summit is a new platform designed to strengthen collaboration, mobilise action and support meaningful progress in sanitation. This first session is built around the theme ‘The Future of Sanitation: Decentralised, Water-Efficient, Scalable’. The event aims to …
Abstract deadline: 5 June 2026 Date and location: 24-27 Nov 2026 Vienna, Austria The 23rd IWA International Conference on Diffuse Pollution & Eutrophication (IWA DIPCON 2026) will focus on advancing knowledge and solutions for managing diffuse pollution and its impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Key themes: Diffuse emissions of legacy and …
Abstract deadline: 30 April 2026 Date and location: 23-28 Aug 2026 Brno, Czechia The 9th IWA Specialist Conference on Natural Organic Matter (NOM) and the 23rd Meeting of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) will be held as a joint event, with the topic Humic & NOM science & technology: …
Abstract deadline: 31 March 2026 Date and venue: 13-17 Sept 2026 Chania, Greece For details and to register see here The IWA Specialist Group Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control conference is a bi-annual event that acts as a global forum for discussion and knowledge sharing on scientific and practical …
Abstract Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 now extended to 10 Jan 2026 Date: 9-12 July 2026 Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India Building on the success of an inaugural conference in Johannesburg in 2023, this event aims to bring together a global community of researchers, practitioners and policy experts to …
The 14th IWA Micropol & Ecohazard conference takes place on 31 May – 4 June 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The call for abstracts is open until 15 Dec 2025. Conference themes include: Occurrence and fate of micropollutants in the environment Effects and impacts of micropollutants on organisms, populations and communities. …
Thumbs up to a featured item in the International Water Association (IWA)’s The Source magazine, on Rethinking resource recovery in wastewater. While it’s an opinion piece, rather than a presentation of fresh results or research, it marshals the arguments well and covers a wide perspective. It also makes the powerful …
Abstracts deadline: 15 Dec 2025 Conference: 27 June – 3 July 2026, Delft, Netherlands The IWA Water in Industry 2026 (WIN2026) conference covers topics related to industrial water use, treatment, monitoring, recovery and policy. Abstracts based on original research or case studies and workshop proposals are invited on the following themes: …
The International Water Association (IWA) has a range of publications freely available to read or download in electronic format. Books in particular can be eye-wateringly expensive [no pun intended] for the individual reader, so these are a very valuable resource. A recent addition, published in September 2025, is Environmental Technologies …
Abstracts deadline: 15 Sept 2025 Event: 17-21 May 2026, Delft, Netherlands The call for abstracts for the next IWA Conference on Nutrient Removal and Recovery closes on 15 September 2025. The conference itself will take place after EBNet’s extended lifetime, and sadly we don’t [yet] have any additional funding to …
Date: 17-19 September 2025 Venue: IHE Delft, Netherlands This event aims to bring together researchers in microbial ecology and physiology, environmental biotechnology and engineering working in the emerging field of phototrophic aggregation. The conference will cover topics from fundamental research to innovative applications in wastewater treatment and ecosystem restoration. The conference …
