3rd International IWA Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance
24-26 April 2013
Marbella, Spain
Website: http://iceam2013.es/
Important dates
Deadline for sending the abstracts: 15 September 2012
Deadline to send answer from the Scientific Committee: 30 October 2012
Deadline for sending the papers of the accepted abstracts: 15 January 2013
Deadline for communicating changes: 15 February 2013
Early registration: 15 December 2012
Hotel reservation: 15 March 2013
The International Conference is aimed at providing specialist interested in economics, statistics, and financing of water and sanitation with the opportunity of getting together and constituting a forum to debate on how utilities are financed, their various water tariff structures, national and regional water industry statistics, water facts, water consumption and charging figures.
Also, it will be a great opportunity for the participants to share information and experience on both fundamental and practical issues about current pricing and funding practices to be considered by and economic and responsible behavior of water utilities. To this aim, the conference on “Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance” will focus on the following topics:
• Economic regulation of water pricing
• Water policy and use sustainability
• Optimal water resources management
• Climatic change and water resources
• Hydrological variability
• Transferring water between uses
• Water for irrigation in agriculture
• Demand and supply of water for urban uses
• Economic policy instruments for water management
• The social value of water
• Water tariff structures and pricing
• Valuing non market benefits of improved water quality
• Water for industrial purposes
• Public-private partnerships
• Efficiency in water and wastewater management
• Full cost recovery case studies
• Financing water supply and sanitation
• Feasibility studies for water projects
• Privatization of water utilities
• Economics of water pollution
• Economics of ground water management
• Data collection methods for water and sanitation
• Water-wastewater services finance
• Measurement of efficiency performance in water uses
Contact: Conference Secretariat
