11th International Specialised Conference on Watershed and River Basin Management

Water is a challenge for the century:
Exploring the sustainability of our most valuable resource is our business. IWA presents a unique opportunity to engage in 2 days of innovative discussion on the subjects of Water Resource Management, Climate Change, Water Supply Protection, Sustainable Urban Drainage, Pollution Sources & Controls and Monitoring and Modelling.

Join other experts in exchanging ideas and exploring networking opportunities during the IWA Watershed and River Basin Management Conference, 4-5 September 2008 in beautiful Budapest, Hungary.

Conference Themes

- River basin management planning under the EU Water Framework Directive;

- River basin management practices in different continents;

- Managing water resources in transboundary river basins with conflicting demand;

- Managing competing uses to protect water quality and quantity;

- Watershed management methods to facilitate water availability for aquatic ecosystem health and human uses;
- Interconnecting sub-watersheds to achieve basin goals;

- Hierarchal approaches to river basin management.

- Monitoring, ecological classification in EU countries and inter-calibration;

- State-of-the-art in assessing water and biological quality and integrating data;

- Programme of measures and ecological state.

- River basin management, advanced computation and decision support;

- The impact of climate change on watersheds, river basins, estuaries and reservoirs;

- Flood control and prevention. - Effective methods to involve stakeholders and the public into the river basin management planning processes;
- Conflicts and multi-objective management – is it mostly methodology?

- Economics of river basin management.