ASDWA’s 2015 Annual conference Call for Papers Due June 1st!

Call for Papers
Please submit your abstract for ASDWA’s 2015 Annual Conference.  This year’s conference will be held October 20-23, 2015 at the Hilton Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas.  Approximately 250 participants are expected to attend.  Presentation Themes may include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Emerging drinking water treatment technologies and optimization of current technologies
  • SDWA implementation approaches and strategies including collaborations and partnerships
  • State revolving loan fund tools and techniques/green infrastructure strategies
  • Drinking water security strategies and tools
  • Small systems: TMF, sustainability strategies, technologies, and compliance
  • Workforce, operator certification, and/or technical assistance initiatives
  • Source water protection and sustainability of water supplies
  • Climate change, water and energy efficiency, and conservation
  • Clean Water Act/SDWA connections, nutrient pollution, and Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Data management
  • Distribution system issues
  • Emerging contaminants in drinking water, both chemical (Cr+6, perchlorate, etc.) and microbial (Legionella, Naegleria fowleri,)
  • Drinking water research
  • Risk assessment, risk communication and consumer outreach
  • Implementation of regulations – challenges and successes

When reviewing proposals, ASDWA will give priority to those received from state drinking water program administrators and their staff.  If you would like to make a presentation, please submit a one-page abstract with the proposed presentation title, and the name, title, affiliation, and contact information for the speaker to Deirdre Mason of ASDWA at dmason@asdwa.org by June 1, 2015. For more information, please view and download the Call for Papers and Exhibitors.