Building Sustainable and Resilient Water Infrastructure and Adapting to Climate Change
An ASCE-EWRI Conference on International Perspectives in Water and Environment
Welcome to Bhopal, the City of Lakes in Central India. Join us to explore a broad spectrum of water infrastructure themes pertinent to nations at various stages of development. The Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the ASCE with its 26,000 members and a tradition of successful International Perspectives on Water and Environment (IPWE) Conferences invites global engineers and scientists to Bhopal for its 12th session focusing on sustainable and resilient water infrastructure.
Bhopal: The City of Lakes
Discover Bhopal, the heart of India, known for its rich heritage, stunning architecture, and serene lakes. As one of India’s greenest cities, Bhopal’s landscape and cultural backdrop provide an ideal setting for this conference.
Conference Themes
- Climate change, sustainability, resiliency, and food security
- Sustainable irrigation practices and piped irrigation networks
- Groundwater management for agricultural resilience
- Flood risk mitigation in the context of climate change
- Smart water systems and sensors
- Water infrastructure rehabilitation and replacement
- Urban water – modeling, management, and conservation
- Decentralized wastewater treatment
- Water and wastewater treatment and reuse: Emerging biological, and bioelectrochemical processes
- Aligning water and wastewater management with circular economies and climate shift priorities
- Urban flooding and smart city planning
- Nature-based solutions for stormwater management
- Micropollutants (DBPs, PPCP, PFAS, dyes) and ecohazard: Reducing ecological and health risk in water and soil environments
- Hydroinformatics for water resources management
- Experimental hydraulics and hydrodynamic modeling
- Sediment transport and morphodynamics
- Flow and transport of contaminants in the subsurface
- Physiochemical treatment and resource recovery for clean environment
- Proximal and remote sensing methods in agricultural water management
- Life cycle analysis based environmental sustainability assessment and the circular economy
- Environmental chemistry: analysis, monitoring, and modeling
- Ecological and human exposure: risks assessment and mitigation.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications in water resources and environmental engineering
- Glacial and landslide lake flood management
- Hydraulics of pumped storage hydropower
- Water desalination
- Energy harvesting for water systems
- Any other relevant topics
Important Dates
- Conference: Jan 8-10, 2025
- Abstracts for technical presentations will be accepted starting May 6, 2024
- End date for abstract submission: June 24, 2024
- Acceptance of abstract: July 8, 2024
- End date for technical paper submission: October 14, 2024
- Technical papers feedback: October 31, 2024
- Early registration end date: November 15, 2024
- End date for final submission of revised technical papers: December 2, 2024
- Late registration end date: December 15, 2024
Conference Program
The three (3) day program will consist of an opening plenary session, five (5) keynote sessions, several panel discussion sessions, and three (3) to four (4) concurrent technical sessions each day. The plenary, keynote speakers and, several panelists (as appropriate) will be invited for the opening and closing sessions. The remaining program will be formed with the technical papers and invited speakers. Informal “networking” sessions will be organized every day. The welcome reception dinner, cultural performance, closing dinner will be included in the registration and will be open to all participants. It is anticipated that the Conference will be opened by a key personality related to water/environmental sectors in Indian Government and panel sessions will be Chaired by eminent Indian and international academicians, practitioners and scientists.