Italy: Desalination course just misses quake

Earth tremors felt during the European Desalination Society's fouling and scaling course in L'Aquila, Italy, last week, were obviously precursors of the major earthquake that struck the town at 03:30 on 6 April causing over 190 deaths.

The EDS course, led by Prof Jan Schippers, ended on 2 April, and EDS secretary-general Miriam Balaban and her administrative assistant Ortensia Ferella were fortunately not in L'Aquila, where EDS has its headquarters, when the quake struck. It is not believed that the disaster will seriously affect the EDS Desalination for the Environment conference and exhibition in Baden Baden, Germany, on 17-20 May 2009.

Contact information	Miriam BALABAN, European Desalination Society, Science and Technology Park of Abruzzo, Via Antica Arischia 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy (email: balaban@desline.com ; eds@desline.info)
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=4810
Source of information	Desalination.biz
Keyword(s)	desalination
Subject(s)	ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
Relation	http://www.semide.net/topics/Desalination
Geographical coverage	Italy
News date	08/04/2009
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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