A two day international conference investigating the EMERGING WATER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES associated with the water framework directive.

The event is to be held in Lille, France on the 29th and 30th of September 2009.

The aim of the conference is to explore emerging policy and technical challenges linked to the Water Framework Directive which have arisen in the past few years. The objectives of the conference are to:

Brief and update delegates on a range of challenges that have linkages to the WFD.

Explore the next steps in addressing these challenges

Bring together a diverse audience from across the EC for knowledge sharing and networking.

Highlight examples where integration of sectors and disciplines has been demonstrated successfully.

The subjects to be covered are:

Water Scarcity and Drought

Climate Change Mitigation

Floods Directive

Asset Management and Infrastructure

Surface Water Management

The aim of this conference is to identify areas where the planning system has a role, and where planners need support on water issues in order to focus clear guidance to planners to ensure that water issues are embedded in regional and local plan making, and in decisions on individual planning applications to further sustainable development.

The water environment in Europe is in a state of decline.  For many years our rivers, lakes, coasts and wetlands have been used as natural sinks - a repository for sewage, slurry, and industrial effluents – in fact almost anything which was either too difficult or too expensive to get rid of in any other way.  Water quality is an issue for even the most progressive countries and how do deal with the polluting effect of growth and economic development is an on going problem.

Reed-beds and constructed wetlands offer new solutions to many water quality issues. They are not simply another alternative to an existing technology. Industrial wastewaters, industrial run-off pollution, SUDs, CSO and EO capacity for WwTWs, domestic and agricultural effluents, amongst others, can all be treated using constructed wetlands.

This Constructed Wetland Association (CWA) seminar aims to bring together consultants, regulators, designers, researchers, installers and conservationists to explore the use and development of constructed wetlands, building on present experience, to meet and resolve current and future regulatory and water quality issues.

The aim of this conference is to understand the implications of recent studies for surface water management and test the proposals set out in the Floods and Water Bill so that delegates can play an active part in the Bill consultation process.

The aim of this 2009 CIWEM Climate Change meeting is to focus on the implications of recent policy developments in terms of the way we act upon the water, energy and carbon agenda across the wider water sector.