Call for abstracts
DANVA, FIWA, Norsk Vann, Samorka and Svenskt Vatten invite all water professionals with an interest in wastewater, sewerage and climate change mitigation and adaptation to submit abstracts at NORDIWA 2025. We welcome experts and practitioners, managers and operators, city planners, researchers, engineers, advisors and others with an interest in wastewater management, urban drainage and climate adaptation in the Nordic region.
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Submission of Abstracts
Practical information
Abstracts shall consist of maximum 450 words, an optional figure and be written in English.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31. January. The abstracts should be submitted above. The Programme Committee selects the abstracts, and the authors are informed in March 2025. Authors of the selected abstracts must submit a presentation by mid August.
The conference contains full presentations, workshops and speed talks followed by an open discussion. Presentations will be published in a digital format and are distributed to the participants at the conference. The conference language is English.
The NORDIWA programme committee can recommend articles to be published in the IWA publication Water Practice & Technology.
Themes 2025
Climate challenges, mitigation and adaptation
Climate change adaptation and resilience • Climate change mitigation • Sustainable stormwater management • Extreme weather events • Energy efficiency, strategies and priorities • Greenhouse gas emissions and climate ambitions • Biogas production, upgrading and use
Sewer management and wastewater treatment
Sewer management • Monitoring and modelling • Treatment of combined sewer overflows • Interaction sewers and wastewater treatment plants • Wastewater treatment • Small scale wastewater treatment
Circular economy, resources and reuse
Circular economy • Sludge management • Resource efficiency, recovery • Recycling and recovery of nutrients •Water use and reuse • System efficiency • The challenges of PFAS and other micropollutants, AMR and microplastics • Bathing water quality
Sustainable management and communication
SDGs and wastewater • Management, governance, benchmarking and new EU legislation • Asset management in a re-shaped financial environment • Innovative procurements • Customer engagement and communication • Wastewater as a community service • Concept of sustainability • ESG reporting
Crisis handling, risk management and security
Supply chain challenges, lack of chemicals, spare parts and other resources • Electrical power failures and shut downs
Upcoming legislation
UWWTD – implementation in the Nordic countries – challenges and solutions • Implementing and delegated acts from the EC • EQSD – CSRD • NISII • CER-directive
Questions?
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Should You have questions and/or comments to any aspect of NORDIWA 2025, please let us know by using the contact form on the right.