Call for Papers
Safe Drinking Water, a UNC-Chapel Hill Environmental Symposium sponsored by the university's Institute for the Environment and its Drinking Water Research Center, will be focused on professional development for water resources executives from the public and private sectors, water resources faculty and graduate students from research universities, and water resources policy staff from agencies such as USEPA, CDC, USGS, AWWA, WEF, EU, WHO, USAID, UN, and others. About 200 attendees are expected, drawn from an international audience. The Symposium will be followed by a celebration on November 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Redbud Room of the achievements of Dr. Daniel A. Okun, a pioneer in the water and sanitation field who passed away at the end of last year.
Safe and Sustainable Drinking Water in Developed and Developing Countries: Where Science Meets Policy will begin with a plenary session of presentations by several internationally renowned figures in the area of water resources. It will then split into two tracks:
- Institutional programs and appropriate technologies for developing countries, and
- Measurement, regulation, and control of emerging microbial and chemical contaminants
Abstracts of papers for platform and poster presentations consistent with the conference themes are invited. Abstracts are due on July 15, 2008 and should consist of a 300-500 word description of their presentation summarizing the objectives, significance, and key findings of their work. Abstracts should submitted online, or mailed to:
Safe Drinking Water Abstract
c/o UNC Institute for the Environment
100 Miller Hall
Campus Box 1105
UNC - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
You may submit more than one abstract.
Presenters will be notified by August 15, 2008 if their paper has been accepted for presentation. Note that all presenters will be expected to prepare a written paper for inclusion in the symposium proceedings. The paper will be due on September 15, 2008. The language of the symposium will be English.
For further details, please contact the conference coordinator, Ms. Danielle Del Sol.
