Scope

The water sector faces unprecedented challenges and is turning to innovation and smart processes to tackle the world’s water scarcity, climate change, water resources pollution, global food security, and more. Since the available water resources are limited and to obtain more yields with less water use, efficient management of available water with improved water productivity is direly needed to meet future food demands.

Various innovative and smart approaches, recently developed, can improve water management and accelerate the progress toward achieving multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs), ensuring that no one is left behind.

The 2024 ICWAS Conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines and other relevant societal actors to jointly discuss and explore the latest findings on processes, methods, and technologies for innovative solutions in a Water-Wise World. Participants will discover Innovation & Smart Water approaches in wastewater treatment, their reuse and smart irrigation techniques for a two-day showcase of the inspiring collaborations producing the most successful innovation projects in water management.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Innovation Toward a Green Circular Transition

• Urban and Industrial water and wastewater treatment,
• Nature-based solutions for water/wastewater management,
• Water reuse, recycling and conservation toward SDGs,
• Sludge treatment and valorization,
• Nutrient recovery/removal,
• Fate and removal of emerging contaminants,
• Water-Energy-Food Ecosystem (WEFE) nexus,
• Decentralized water/wastewater treatment and management systems.

Smart Irrigation to take AgTech to the Next Level

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in water management,
• Remote sensing application in agriculture,
• Smart and biosourced material for sustained irrigation,
• irrigation-assisted by digitalization, modeling and decision-support tools.

 

25 - 27 september 2024 , University Cadi Ayyad UCA's Conference Center
 

For more details: https://icwas.uca.ma/index.html