IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition
Local organizer
Ministry of City Planning and Water Supply of Sri LankaSustainable solutions for emerging economies
To achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 6 of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, will require a massive effort by the water and sanitation practitioners, especially those in low and middle income countries.
We are beyond a simple model of expanded investment in infrastructure, there are numerous challenges and they are linked in often complex ways. For example, progress in the sector is significantly hampered by an overall shortage of appropriately skilled people in the workforce.
IWA has published a preliminary analysis from 15 countries in 2014. Developing and emerging economies have made efforts to cope with the challenges, training, establishing competency frameworks, organizational development and implementing institutional frameworks.
This is only one issue for which the fifth Water and Development Congress & Exhibition in Colombo, SriLanka creates an opportunity to share, mutually reinforce and accelerate work in progress.
Thematic areas
Basins and Water Resources, Urban Water Management, Drinking Water Systems, Wastewater Systems (small scale), Industrial Water and Wastewater, Wastewater Systems (large scale), Information and Communications Technology, Water and Health, Resource Recovery and Reuse, Water Governance, Regulation and Utility Management, Treatment TechnologiesProgramme Committee
Doulaye Kone (Chair)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
United States Of America
Yes
Ashok Natarajan
Tamil Nadu Water Investment Company
India
Yes
Buddhika Gunawardana
Moratuwa University
Sri Lanka
Yes
Harsha Ratnaweera
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Norway
Yes
Miriam Otoo
IWMI
Ghana
Yes
Jay Bhagwan
South African Water Research Commission
South Africa
Yes
Manesh Jayaweera
Moratuwa University
Sri Lanka
Yes
Min Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Yes
Miriam Otoo
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Ghana
Yes
Pallavi Bishnoi
Real Time Renewables
India
Yes
Rose Kaggwa
National Water and Sewerage Corporation
Uganda
Yes
Rosie Wheen
WaterAid
Australia
Yes
S.Mohan
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
India
Yes
S.K. Weragoda
National Water Supply and Drainage Board
Sri Lanka
Yes
Sofia Castro
INTE-PUCP
Peru
Yes
Tanuja Ariyananda
Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum
Sri Lanka
Yes
Thomas Panella
Asian Development Bank
Philippines
Yes
Type Congress
Country Sri Lanka
City Colombo
Start date 1 Dec 2019
End date 5 Dec 2019
Upcoming deadlines
15/03/2019
Abstract submission deadline
30/07/2019
Authors’ notification
15/09/2019
Early bird registration deadline
15/09/2019
Authors’ registration deadline
01/11/2019
Full paper submission deadline