Assessment and Control of Hazardous Substances in Water
This group addresses the problems of monitoring/measuring of environmental contaminants, predicting their fate and effects, and relating such data to the optimisation of control systems and strategies.
Issues of environmental contamination from a global perspective are also examined, drawing on the diverse specialist areas of IWA's membership. The Group provides a forum whereby engineers, hydrologists, chemists, ecologists and environmental toxicologists can interact and address issues of mutual concern.
This Group focuses on hazardous substances in water, including natural and anthropogenic inorganic or organic soluble species as well as fine to ultrafine particles that have negative impacts on human or environmental health. The Group exchanges experience on hazard substance analytical methods, bioassays, occurrence in water, sludge and contaminated soils/sediments, their fate and effects in the environment, removal or accumulation in drinking water and wastewater treatment systems, risk assessment and regulatory aspects. The group had joint conferences with SG on Diffuse Pollution (IWA 14th International Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Eutrophication” Setember 2010 in Quebec) and with SG on Health-Related Water Microbiology (Microbes in wastewater and waste treatment, bioremediation and energy production January 2011 in Goa, India). And the last SG Conference the 7th Micropol and Ecohazard was successfully held in Sydney, July 11-13th 2011.
Micropol & Ecohazard 2013, the 8th IWA Specialist Conference on Assessment and Control of Micropollutants/Hazardous Substances in Water will be held from 17 to 19 June 2013 in Zurich, Switzerland. For more information on this confernece, please visit the conference website: http://www.eawag.ch/index_EN.
