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Conference Topics:

Treatment Wetlands

Process Dynamics: Hydrology, Biochemistry, Kinetics, Vegetation, Substrate, Microbiology, Biotechnology, biodiversity benefits;

Landscaping: Green Roofs, Vertical farming, Sustainable Urban and Agricultural Drainage, Recreational concepts for wetlands, Natural swimming pools

Case studies: Municipal wastewater treatment, Industrial waste effluents treatment, Agricultural and animal industry effluents treatment, Landfill leachates treatment, Acid mine drainage treatment, Sludge dewatering, Storm water treatment, Combined Sewer Overflows treatment, Groundwater cleanup, On-site bioremediation, Non-point source control, Highway runoff, Riparian buffer zones, Wetland restoration, Stagnant water bodies and slow flowing river and others, “Bad experiences – learn from mistakes”

Design criteria and Operation policies: Hydraulics, Sizing criteria, Vegetation management, Modelling and optimisation, Environmental factors

Treatment Performances of Wetlands in Water Pollution Control: Organics, Suspended solids, Nutrients, Heavy metals, Micro organisms, Protozoa and Metazoans, Invertebrates, Sludge Dewatering, wetland-WSP hybridisation

Economics: Investment costs, Operation and maintenance costs, Ancillary benefits, Ecological services versus Conventional technologies, Biomass production

Application of CWs for Water Reuse, Ecosanitation, Sustainable Water Management

Environmental Issues: Greenhouse gases, Life Cycle Assessment, Emergy Assessment, Biodiversity, Clean Development Mechanism, Emission Trading Scheme, Joint Implementation

CWs components: new materials, hydraulic devices, innovative design concepts, patents, maintenance tools

Official Language of the Conference: English

Preliminary Programme:

We'll make our best effort for trying to avoid any change to this preliminary structure of the event, by the way any eventual variation will be promptly updated.

Saturday, October 2, 2010 15.00 - 22.-00 Registration	Sunday, October 3, 2010 09:30 - 17:00 Registration 08:00 - 16:00 Pre-Conference Tours: Natural Wetlands; Po River delta; Venice Lagoon islands; exploring Venice 19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception Cocktail at the San Servolo Island Conference Center - Building 11 Terrace	Monday, October 4, 2010 08:00 - 09:00 Posters set up - Registration 09:00 - 10:00 Welcome and Inaugural session 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 13:00 Plenary session 13:00 - 14.30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:10 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 16:10 -16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:10 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 18:10 -18:30 Adjourn 18:30 - 20:00 Poster Session 20:00 - 23:00 Dinner and Cultural programme
Tuesday, October 5, 2010    08:30 - 09:00 Registration 09:00 - 10:40 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions   10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 13:00 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 13.10 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:10 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:10 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 18:10 - 18:30 Adjourn 18:30 - 20:00 Poster Session	Wednesday, October 6, 2010 08:30 - 09:00 Registration 09:00 - 10:40 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent. sessions 10:40 -11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 13:00 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 13:00 - 14.30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:10 Oral presentations in 2 (or 3) concurrent sessions 16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 19:00 Meeting of the International Specialist Group 19:00 - 19:30 Adjourn 20:00 – 23:00 Gala Dinner	Thursday, October 7, 2010 07:30 - 20.00 Conference Field Trips (Trips 1-2)
Friday, October 8, 2010 08:30 - 9:00 Registration 09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Session 12:00 - 12:30 Open discussion 12:30 - 13:00 Concluding Remarks 13:00 Lunch Afternoon:  - Thematic Workshops (bad practices, territorial planning, education, …) Local trip and Cultural programme

Each poster session will be preceded by a 20’ oral “poster resumes”, a review of posters grouped per topics (1 slide per poster); then each poster will have a 5’ oral presentation on the site with a “poster master” calling the itinerant spectators at the specific spot.

 

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