The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), are pleased to announce that the deadline to submit abstracts for the UNESCO-IWRA Online Conference on “Emerging Pollutants: Protecting Water Quality for the Health of People and the Environment” is extended to 21 October 2022.

The Online Conference will highlight the ways the world can advance knowledge, research, and solutions for managing emerging pollutants to improve and protect water quality in a changing world.

Call for Abstracts:

 We invite participants from all backgrounds (i.e., academics, water professionals, private sector practitioners, and civil society stakeholders) who wish to present their work on the indicated theme and related sub-themes at this online conference, to submit an abstract. We especially encourage participation by participants from developing countries, women, underrepresented groups, and youth. This conference will have options to present in online oral and poster formats and will include a special submission category for young water professionals.

Abstract Submission requirements:

• Abstracts should address one of the sub-themes of the conference through a scientific or policy relevant research, or a case-study, or a best practice.

• Abstracts should clearly describe the research objectives, methods, findings, and its policy relevance in a maximum of 400 words, in English (with no graphs, references, or citations)

• Authors must use the official template to provide information for all sections in the abstract submission template. Only word documents (.doc and .docx) will be accepted.

• When submitting your abstract, you will be required to select one of the five conference themes within which your abstract topic must fit.

• Submit your completed template to online.conference@iwra.org by
October 21st, 2022.

For more information about the submission process, please visit iwraonlineconference.org/call-for-abstracts/, or contact us at online.conference@iwra.org.

We look forward to your submissions by October 21st 2022!