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Conference Themes and Topics
 THEME I: Issues and challenges of global changes impacts on river basins and aquifer systems
- Assessment methods and indicators of impacts of global change on the hydrological cycle and water resources
- Emerging issues of concern: new pollutants and nanoparticles
- Vulnerability and resilience to episodic hydrological events
- Pressures on groundwater resources: e.g., population growth, climate change, salt water intrusion
- Large water basin transfers
- Demographic changes/population shifts
- The water energy nexus
- Issues and challenges of water scarcity and global changes on agriculture
THEME II: Improving water governance for sustainable responses to water scarcity and global change impacts on water
- Water management economic and financial evaluation tools
- Financing and pricing systems in water production, supply, waste water treatment, and water intended for reuse
- National contemporary policies and legislations
- Global environmental law
- Integrated Water Resources Management: governance and sustainability aspects
- Global citizenship and public participation, the relationships of a population to water
- Transboundary large rivers and aquifer systems management
THEME III: Ecohydrology for sustainability
- Risk-based environmental management under uncertainty and risk mitigation
- Groundwater-dependent ecosystems, protection, remediation, and mitigation strategies (vulnerable systems: coastal areas, islands, wetlands, extreme arid zones, mountain hydrology)
- The sustainable city of the 21st century: new ecohydrological approaches to urban water
management responses to global changes and water scarcity
THEME IV: Water and life support systems
- Water quality and public health
- Poverty alleviation and water quality protection in scarce water resources areas, with an emphasis on groundwater vulnerability and sustainable use
- Augmenting scarce water resources, especially for Small Islands Developing States (SIDS)
- Water for human security and community participation
- Strategies to improve the quality of life through water supplies in urban, periurban, informal settlements, rural areas, islands, or coasts subject to water scarcity and population growth
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