The 5th ecoSTP conference“Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment (ecoSTP)”

Following four successful IWA Specialized International Conferences on “Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment (ecoSTP)” in Spain (2012), Italy (2014), the United Kingdom (2016), and London, Ontario, Canada (2018),  the 5th ecoSTP conference (IWA ecoSTP2020) “Impacting the environment with innovation in wastewater treatment“ to be held in Milan (Italy).

EcoSTP 2020 will take place in June 2020 and will be hosted by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. The conference is organized by a program committee composed by Politecnico di Milano staff and chairs of previous editions of the EcoSTP conference. EcoSTP 2020 is supported by Water Utilities, Companies in the Water Sector, Local Authorities and other stakeholders.

“Impacting the environment with innovation in wastewater treatment”: high anthropic pressure is impairing water, impacting the environment and limiting its potential uses, so innovation is the key for a new paradigm in wastewater treatment and management, as for:

• • energy and resource recovery, favouring a new water economy
  • potential for multiple-use and reuse of the water resource, such as improvement of recreational surface water uses, promotion of indirect potable reuse, requalification of agricultural reserves, revitalization of waterways reconnecting people
• KEY DATES
• Call for abstracts: October 1^st, 2019
• Deadline for abstract submission: December 10^th, 2019
• Acceptance of abstracts: February 15^th, 2020
• Deadline for Early Bird registration: March 30^th, 2020