IDA International Conference

Creating Resilient Solutions

to Water Needs

Action4Good

May 12-14, 2019 Santa Margherita, Italy

Program

Organized by Supported by Regional Affiliate

Under the patronage of the City of Genoa, Italy

Foundation Partner

Creating Resilient Solutions to Water Needs

Welcome to our third Action4Good international conference titled "Creating Resilient Solutions to Water Needs", held at the Grand Miramare Hotel, located on the beautiful Corniche of San-ta Margherita Portofino, Italy from May 12-14, 2019. This conference is held under the patronage of the City of Genoa and is developed in coopera-tion with the Rotary Club of La Spezia and Lu-nigiana, as well as the IDA Sustainable Water Resources Foundation (IDA SWRF). Part of the proceeds of the event are earmarked to sup-port a water-related humanitarian project and the IDA SWRF. With the support of our Affiliates and coopera-tion agreements with organizations like the UN FAO, Global Clean Water Desalination Allian-ce, GreeningTheIslands.net, and the Global Solar Council, the conference technical pro-gram will focus on energy and environmental issues related to desalination and water reuse projects. Additionally, the program will underscore the importance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the increasing role that non - conventional water supply technologies play in meeting freshwater, health, and economic development needs for today and for future generations. IDA supports an H20-C02 target and advocates the critical role energy efficiency, renewable

energy, and minimization of environmental im-pact in desalination and water reuse systems play in reaching this aim. We thank all our sponsors and the Technical Program Committee for the generous contribu-tions to ensure that growth in the desalination and water reuse industry goes hand in hand with social responsibility. We are pleased to welcome you to Santa Mar-gherita, Portofino and sharing in action4- good! Sincerely, Shannon McCarthy IDA Secretary General

Conference Chairs

Technical Program Committee

Water is a key element in the overall UN Sus-tainable Development Goals - unfortunately, as time goes by and as world population increases the available renewable water per capita is sharply decreasing and presents critical cha-llenges. This obviously has an important impact, not only for the basic satisfaction of human survival needs but also as on the ecosystem and biosp-here, that, with climate change and limited supply of water, are going to be drastically alte-red. Along with the decrease in quantity of rene-wable water sources, there is a constant in-crease of waste water which is now seen as a liability to rid of at the lowest possible cost.

In reality, in the same way as waste needs to become the technological and biological nu-trient store for the future, also waste water needs to become the new water source for the future. The aim of this conference is to address the need to develop resilient solutions for water schemes which will be upcycling the water con-sumed in the techno sphere and by domestic anthropogenic uses to the purpose of generating new water. In this functional pattern, where biosphere wa-ter abstraction is minimized, nature can reple-nish the natural water resources leading back to sustainable life. Sincerely,

Dr. Corrado Sommariva IDA Director, Conference Co-Chair

Mr. Edoardo Garibotti Conference Co-Chair

Borja Blanco Mike Dixon Leon Awerbuch

José Díaz Caneja Alistair Munro

Conference Theme

Current developments in the water industry at large require a more judicious use of water – from the effects of climate change to growing awareness of water scarcity challenges and the increased focus on sustainability. Desalination is unique in its ability to deliver a new, reliable and sustainable source of water, and this ex-tends beyond its traditional municipal market into applications of desalination and desalina-tion technologies in the industrial realm. Conse-quently, there is a growing commitment to-wards innovative desalination solutions. New horizons are opening every day. As time goes by, desalination will become increasingly im-portant as a solution for other industry sectors where large volumes of water is required or where desalination technologies can enable recycling and reuse of this precious resource. Desalination and wastewater recycling / reuse are now benefitting from rapid advances in te-chnology, and our industry continues to push for further solutions to overcome technological barriers. Quite logically, therefore, innovation is the recurrent theme in the conference. This conference aims to explore the market potential

of innovative desalination solutions in the tradi-tional municipal infrastructure market that will steadily drive us towards a sustainable water supply. In addition, the technical program will showcase examples of desalination and sea-water / wastewater treatment cases where the potential for optimization and applications of desalination technology can offer more sustai-nable water solutions to industries such as oil and gas as well as another rapidly growing sec-tor, mining. While the first session of the confe-rence explores some of the future techniques that may expand the existing portfolio of proce-sses for water production, innovation returns as an important theme in almost each session of the conference. Innovation is a key to impro-ving sustainability of water solutions, reducing the energy and carbon footprint of desalination, and decreasing the cost of water. Continuing in the tradition of IDA’s Humanitarian Outreach Program that was introduced in 2011, space has been allocated in the technical program to address emergency solutions that can enable a supply of potable water to areas affected by humanitarian catastrophes.

Program

Program

We Thank our Sponsors

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