The Cities of the Future– Transitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST) is organising its final conference on 28th – 30th APRIL, 2015 in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
With a growing world population, continuing urbanization and the general pursuit of better living standards in the background, TRUST final conference will present and discuss leading-edge developments in the area of urban water services with an international audience of water utility personnel, researchers, engineers, technology providers, city planners, consultants, regulators and policy makers. In this context, TRUST has opened a call for papers for all those interested in submitting an abstract (up to 500 words in English), featuring contributions to knowledge or case studies with value for practitioners facing similar problems elsewhere.
The topics included in the conference’s agenda are :
- Planning for Future Urban Water Services (strategies for sustainable UWS, territorial and urban planning, diagnosis tools, management tools)
- Engineering Future Urban Water Services (water security in cities, healthy and liveable cities,resource/energy-efficient cities, climate-resilient urban water services, smart networks – smart water services) and
- Governing and Financing Future Urban Water Services (water governance in transition,financial sustainability of UWS, affordable water services).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 15 of October.
More information is available on TRUST’s website.
