Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developing and Developed Countries: Where Science Meets Policy
November 5-6, 2008

Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developing and Developed Countries:  Where Science Meets Policy
This professional Symposium is sponsored by the Institute for the Environment
Additional sponsors

Agenda

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

8:00 a.m.Continental Breakfast Available
8:00 a.m.Conference Registration Opens
9:00 a.m.Opening Plenary Session: Institute for the Environment Interim Director Philip R. Berke; Philip C. Singer, Dan Okun Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering at the UNC School of Public Health. UNC-Chapel Hill
9:30 a.m.Speaker TBD
10:30 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developing Countries: Guy Howard, United Kingdom Department of International Development.
12:00 p.m.Lunch, Trillium Room, Speaker TBD
1:30 p.m.Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developed Countries: Walter Giger, Scientist Emeritus at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Independent Consultant, Giger Research Consulting in Zurich, Switzerland; Adjunct Professor at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
2:30 p.m.Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developed Countries: Joan Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), and Director of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS) at Michigan State University.
3:30 p.m.Break
4:00 p.m.Poster Session in Kiosks, Atrium
5:00 p.m.Reception, Atrium
6:30 p.m.Dinner, Trillium Room; Speaker TBD

Thursday, November 6, 2008

8:00 a.m.Continental Breakfast Available
Conference Focus Area Tracks
Track One: Institutional programs and appropriate technologies for developing countries.
Track Two: Measurement, regulation, and control of emerging microbial and chemical contaminants.
8:30 a.m.Simultaneous Paper Presentations in Track One and Track Two, Including Break
12:00 noonLunch, Trillium Room
1:00 p.m.Simultaneous Paper Presentations in Track One and Track Two
2:45 p.m.Break
3:15 p.m.Simultaneous Paper Presentations in Track One and Track Two
4:00 p.m.Plenary Session: Closing Remarks: Philip Singer