On Water

Micropollutants and hazardous susbstances, including pharmaceuticals,
biocides, fluorinated compounds and ingredients of personal care
products in wastewater, surface water, sediments, soils, groundwater and drinking water present numerous technical and institutional challenges to society and environmental and public health professionals. In June 2007, the Micropol & Ecohazard 2007 conference in Germany provided an international platform for drinking water and wastewater engineers, environmental chemists, water and wastewater utility managers, hydrogeologists, and ecotoxicologists to discuss the effects of micropollutants and their removal from water systems. Because of the tremendous success of the 2007 conference, the International Water Association (IWA) has partnered with the Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRA) to invite you to attend Micropol & Ecohazard 2009, which will be held June 8-10, 2009 in Burlingame (San Francisco Bay Area), California, USA.This three-day event will profile the latest developments in the detection, risk assessment, treatment and regulation of micropollutants in water systems.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Abstracts are invited for oral or poster presentations relevant to the
session topics listed below. By virtue of submitting an abstract, the
submitter grants IWA/GRA the right to publish any accepted abstract or
the right to decline any abstract. The Technical Program Committee will
review abstracts and make final selections for both oral and poster
sessions. Submit abstracts by e-mail to Mary Megarry no later than
October 31, 2008.

Guidelines for submitting an abstract are as follows:

• Word 9.0 documents are preferred.
• Please identify that you are submitting an abstract for an oral or a
poster presentation.
• Abstracts must be one page in length or less, and should be titled and
include all contributing authors' names and affiliations.
• Please identify the name of the person who will be presenting, and add
biographical sketches of the authors as a second page. The biosketches
should be 50 words or less in paragraph form, and full mailing and
e-mail addresses should be included in addition to other contact
information (phone and fax numbers).
• Authors are required to indicate the topic for which the abstract is
being submitted.
• Margins should be 1-inch top, bottom, and right side and 1.25-inch
left margin. The text should be single-spaced, 10-point size, Arial
font, with no pagination, footers and headers. Paragraphs should be
justified.
• Major headings should be 12-point bold; minor headings should be
10-point italicized but not bolded. There should be one blank line above
and below all headings, except above major headings which should have
two blank lines.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:
• Environmental Chemistry
- Advances in analytical methods
- Occurrence, fate and transport, process studies
- Modeling approaches

• Toxicity and Risk Assessment
- Biological effects of micropollutants and hazardous chemicals in the
environment
- Mixture toxicity
- Ecological risk evaluation and assessment criteria for effluents
- Approaches to determine the toxicological relevance of micropollutants
in drinking water

• Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse
- New concepts and methods to reduce and/or remove micropollutants and
hazardous chemicals from water
- Fate, transport, process kinetics, and modeling in wastewater
treatment plants
- Treatment efficiencies, costs and resource/energy requirements
- Fate and removal in reuse and reclamation facilities, and soil aquifer
treatment, ground water recharge and surface water replenishment efforts
- Stormwater overflow and sewer exfiltration

• Drinking Water Treatment
- Fate and removal of micropollutants and hazardous chemicals during
water treatment (and relevant water processes such as flocculation,
ozonation, AOPs, GAC, PAC, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and bank
filtration)
- Formation of emerging disinfection byproducts during water treatment
including those from the reaction of micropollutants with disinfectants• Regulations and Management
- Wastewater, recycled water, ground water, surface water, drinking water
- Urban water management
- River basin management
- Source control

• Emerging Issues
- Nanotechnology related industrial applications and environmental
implications

For more information about Sponsor/Exhibitor opportunities go to
http://www.grac.org/micropolsponexhib.doc

Groundwater Resources Association of California
Attention: Mary Megarry
915 L Street, Suite 1000
Sacramento, CA 95814
USA

Phone:+001/916-446-3626
Fax: +001/916-442-0382
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