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 held on the UNC campus in Rosenau Building, Room 133 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 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. The deadline to submit abstracts was July 31, 2008.
Presenters will be notified by September 1, 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 November 5, 2008, the first day of the Symposium. The language of the symposium will be English.
For further details, please contact the conference coordinator, Ms. Danielle Del Sol.
