IWA Conference on Disinfection
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-24 | Almería, Spain
The Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products conference is the international event promoted by the IWA Disinfection Specialist Group related to disinfection, disinfection by-products and related topics. The conference stands as a relevant and well-recognized network opportunity for sharing the expertise of water professionals worldwide to promote innovative shared visions with respect to conference topics and shaping the future of water management.

Water KIC
2024-10-21
Water Europe will host a pivotal event in Brussels to raise awareness and foster dialogue about the establishment of the new EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) dedicated to the water, marine, and maritime sectors and ecosystems. This event intends to support the European Commission’s 2024 Water KIC call awareness campaign, highlighting Water Europe’s leadership in driving innovation and sustainability across these ecosystems to achieve a global Water-Smart Society.

17th Small Water and Wastewater Systems and 9th Resource Oriented Sanitation
2024-11-10 - 2024-11-14
The International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Groups for Small Water and Wastewater Systems (SWWS) and the Resource Oriented Sanitation (ROS) held the latest version of the IWA SWWS and the IWA ROS in 2019 Australia. The proposal is to return to hold both conferences – 17th IWA Small Water and Wastewater Systems and 9th IWA Resource Oriented Sanitation – in Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil. The event is aimed at water and sanitation specialists, researchers, students and companies with solutions for resource recovery and small water and sewage treatment systems. During the event it is intended to bring together participants from different parts of the world, in particular the Americas, Europe and Asia.

IWA Nutrient Removal and Recovery Specialist Conference
2024-11-17 - 2024-11-21
With a world experiencing unprecedented global environmental challenges, we are thrilled to gather researchers and industry professionals together to help create the future of nutrient management in water management. The IWA Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference 2024, in Brisbane, Australia, will address the pressing challenge of nutrient recovery in wastewater to create a net-zero future.

18th EWA Brussels Conference
2024-11-19 | Brussels, Belgium.
In 2024, Europe stands at a pivotal moment in advancing towards a more sustainable and resilient future for its water sector. Alongside, the EU Parliamentary Election will shape the composition and priorities of the next Commission.
The 18th EWA Brussels Conference will explore the post-election landscape of the water sector in Europe.

18th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control
2024-11-24 - 2024-11-29 | Fort de France, Martinique
The 18th International Conference on Wetland System for Water Pollution Control (ICWS2024) will take place in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It will create a framework for treatment wetland scientists and practitioners to exchange knowledge and advance the overall understanding of those treatment systems. The goal is as well to improve collaboration and experience sharing with the Caribbean region, and Latin America more globally, where interest and research are growing more and more. Tropical climate, in a global change context, requires many adaptations compared to standard design rules.

IDA World Congress 2024
2024-12-08 - 2024-12-12 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The IDA World Congress and exhibition will provide knowledge-sharing and interaction opportunities for participants on a plethora of both technical and business topics related to the use of desalinisation and water reuse solutions to ensure a secure water future. Desalinisation and water reuse play a key role in providing a sustainable and reliable source of water to meet current and future clean water needs, and its importance is increasing as new technologies emerge and freshwater shortages multiply.

IWA 21st International Conference on Diffuse Pollution & Eutrophication
2024-12-11 - 2024-12-14 | Chiang Mai, Thailand
The conference “Navigating Diffuse Pollution: Pathways to Carbon Neutrality” aims to convene experts, stakeholders, and policymakers to address pressing environmental challenges and chart a course towards sustainable solutions. With a focus on diffuse pollution and carbon neutrality, the conference seeks to foster knowledge exchange, innovative thinking, and collaborative action across sectors. Through presentations, panel discussions, and workshops, participants will explore cutting-edge technologies, policy frameworks, and best practices aimed at mitigating diffuse pollution and advancing carbon neutrality. Additionally, the conference will emphasize the alignment of these efforts with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), underscoring the interconnectedness of environmental protection, social equity, and economic prosperity. By promoting cross-sectoral collaboration and equitable, inclusive solutions, the conference aims to catalyse collective action towards a more sustainable and resilient future.

WEX Global 2025
2025-02-10 - 2025-02-12 | Valencia, Spain
WEX Global occupies a unique place in the water conference calendar. Business discussions and connections lie at the heart of WEX, along with the principle of ‘exchange’; the exchange of ideas, philosophies, business opportunities and methodologies to build the strong networks that will meet the challenges of the circular economy in mitigating climate change, achieving net zero and turbo-charging digital transformation.

World Water-Tech innovation summit
2025-02-25 - 2025-03-26 | London, United Kingdom
The World Water-Tech Innovation Summit will bring together 600 global water utilities, regulators, engineering firms, technology giants and start-ups to accelerate energy efficiency and circular solutions for climate-resilient water systems.

Aquatech Amsterdam
2025-03-11 - 2025-03-14 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Over 20,000 water professionals from all over the world will be at Aquatech Amsterdam. You meet other water professionals, expand your knowledge, discover new technologies and visit market leaders and start-ups.
Since 1968, Aquatech Amsterdam has been the only show in the world covering ONLY water and EVERY aspect of water. At Aquatech Amsterdam, the spotlight is on 800+ exhibitors, 200+ speakers, product launches, award-winning innovations and every corner of the water world. Is passing this up really an option for you?

14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse
2025-03-16 - 2025-03-20 | Cape Town, South Africa
We never envisaged that the time would come so soon when we had to seriously consider water reuse as an important component of our future water security. Indirect water reuse has been the global strategy for many decades and has served us well in managing the security of our water supplies. However, the emerging consequences of climate related impacts and the frequency of these, together with the high rate of urbanisation in many of the large cities in the world is forcing the boundaries of recognising water reuse as not an option but part of the broader water security mix, for achieving current and future water security in many places in the world.
We welcome you to the warm African sunshine and the wonderful City of Cape Town, to an event which will be memorable. It is now the time to remove the barriers and harness the opportunities. Our future depends on reuse of water.

Water Market Europe
2025-03-27 | Girona, Spain
Water Market Europe (WME) 2025, co-organized by Water Europe and supported by the EU-funded MULTISOURCE project, will serve as a platform for contributing to address these challenges. WME 2025 is designed to foster collaboration and innovation by directly addressing the technological needs identified in the MULTISOURCE project.

Water Week 2025
2025-04-06 - 2025-04-12 | Washington, DC, USA
Water Week is supported by a broad group of partner organizations and offers the sector an opportunity to advance policy priorities for clean and safe water. Whether in-person in DC or through advocacy and events in your local community, strong engagement among the water sector during Water Week is vital to further advance key water policy priorities such as sustained growth in federal infrastructure investment, addressing water affordability, supporting water research & development and advancing sound science-based solutions, and making our critical infrastructure more resilient.

7th IWA Specialist Group Conference Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Recycling
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-10 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
This conference is one of the very successful International Conference Series and serves to discuss and promote Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in the field of water, wastewater, groundwater and potable water.
AOPs are progressing rapidly all over the world as they have proved to be successful in meeting increasingly stringent global regulations as well as protecting public health and the environment.
Continuous basic and applied R&D already helped to improve the effort-benefit ratio of AOP in many applications as well as exploring and consolidating new fields of application and concepts of AOPs.
The conference will bring forward the most recent advances in the fundamentals as well as the development and the application of the Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), especially in the field of water recycling and reuse. It will help to disseminate new achievements in these areas and to identify future research and development needs through strong cooperation between scientists, engineers, operators, and decision makers.

EDSOC Desalination for the Environment - Clean Water and Energy
2025-04-27 - 2025-04-30 | Porto, Portugal
Water and energy are the issues of this millennium. This conference on Desalination for the environment will be devoted to advances towards providing fresh water for all at an affordable cost and with economical energy requirements. With limited and depleting natural sources, Desalination can supplement some of the critically lacking water needed for sustainable development. Its place in the water cycle will be discussed.
The conference will overview the most recent developments in desalination technology, its cost, and the extent of its application, as well as socio-economic and environmental issues. It will bring together research scientists, decision-makers, managers, design engineers and operators from water companies, utilities, industries, government departments, consulting firms, research institutes and universities.
Join us next year to contribute to Portugal’s future solutions to its water scarcity challenges.

Global Water Summit 2025
2025-05-12 - 2025-05-14 | Paris, France
The Global Water Summit is the flagship water industry event of the year. Attracting high-level executives from industry, municipalities and international water companies, the Global Water Summit gives you the opportunity to connect with hard-to-reach industry insiders that will not attend any other water event.

Water Knowledge Europe
2025-05-15 | Warsaw, Poland
Water Knowledge Europe BlueDeal 2025, combined with the Blue Deal Conference, under the patronage of the EU Presidency, represents a critical juncture for shaping the future of water in Europe and beyond. This event will run over three days, providing an opportunity to tackle urgent water challenges at a time when water resilience, security, and sustainability are becoming central to both European and global policy agendas. Within ongoing global geopolitical tensions, this set of events take on added significance, as Europe seeks to reinforce its global competitiveness and sustainability efforts.

IWA Resource Recovery Cluster Conference
2025-05-19 - 2025-05-23 | Leeuwarden, Netherlands
This event is organized by Wetsus in collaboration with Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and Research. With this conference, we want to showcase and celebrate the experiences, lessons and results of more than 15 years of experimenting and upscaling of resource recovery around the world.
Now it is time to transform these from concepts to business examples. Resource recovery is a very inspiring topic but has not been an easy journey and many lessons have been learned in both upscaling novel technologies and developing new markets. Our ambition is to make this conference a meeting point between academia and industry to ensure that research and industry can learn and inspire each other, thus working towards scaled-up and impactful solutions.

Congress Water Smart Economy & Society
2025-05-25 - 2025-05-28 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
We are excited to announce the Congress Water Smart Economy & Society, where leading experts, innovators, and stakeholders will gather to discuss the future of water management.
From urban environments to desalination and industrial applications, explore cutting-edge innovations that will shape the circular water economy.
With contributions from over 30 case studies across Europe and beyond, this event will showcase real-world results of co-creation, stakeholder engagement, and policy reform.
Hear from both academia and industry on the latest advancements in resource recovery, desalination, and wastewater treatment.

11th Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) Conference: Managing Water Microbiomes
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-05 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Microbiological information is being generated faster than it can be translated into actionable knowledge. Systematic and quantitative applications of ecological theory and engineering design to advance microbiome engineering against a rapidly evolving methodological landscape is challenging. While this challenge is not unique to the water engineering field, the ecological, environmental, and economic context of the water sector sets our community apart. The thematic motivation of the MEWE 11 conference is to shine a light on the MEWE communities’ successes and challenges in the application of ecological theory and engineering design to manage microbiomes, including biofilms, in the water sector. The conference sub-themes will also place a spotlight on the importance of translational efforts that extend the impact of MEWE research on the water industry and public health.

Pi 2025 – 10th IWA Conference Benchmarking, Performance Assessment and Regulation of Water Services
2025-06-08 - 2025-06-11 | Poznan, Poland
The IWA Benchmarking and Performance Assessment Specialist Group (SG BPA) presents and discusses benchmarking- and performance assessment experiences and -projects around the world. Since 2007, this series of PI-conferences is a traditional, biennial forum to exchange ideas and methodologies. The next edition, PI2025, will take place in Poznan 8 – 10 June and is co- organised by Poznan University of Technology and Aquanet (Poznan water utility) New in PI2025 will be performance assessment in regulatory frameworks and novel topics such as how to measure sustainability in the water sector and other aspects related to a water sector in transition.

Source Separated Sanitation Summit 2025
2025-06-11 - 2025-06-13 | Helsinborg, Sweden.
The Source Separated Sanitation Summit 2025 is a continuation of the seminar held in Helsingborg ten years ago. Back then, the focus was on gathering knowledge. This time, it is about showcasing concrete examples of operational source-separated wastewater systems – European Practices.
The conference takes a comprehensive approach to the subject, highlighting both technical aspects, experiences from living labs, and the user perspective. It will conclude with a debate on the short- and long-term development of source-separated sanitation in Europe and its future role.

European Wastewater Management Conference & Exhibition
2025-06-17 - 2025-06-18 | Telford, United Kingdom
Europe’s leading wastewater conference sharing operational experience and practical solutions. The European Wastewater Management Conference provides an essential annual update on the latest innovations, best practice, cutting-edge technology and research in the wastewater sector.

7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-26 | Stockholm, Sweden
The conference aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines, technology providers, consulting engineering firms, utilities and other relevant societal actors to jointly discuss and explore the latest findings on processes, methods, and technologies for innovative solutions in a Water-Wise World.

International Congress AEDyR 2025
2025-06-24 - 2025-06-26 | Tenerife, Spain
The Spanish Association for Desalination and Reuse (AEDyR) will hold its XIV International Congress ‘60 years of innovation in desalination and reuse’ on June 24, 25 and 26, 2025 in Tenerife. It will commemorate the 60 years of desalination in Spain and, among other issues, will analyse the technological development that has led our country and Spanish companies to be a benchmark in desalination and reuse in the world.
The congress, which is held every two years, will bring together national and international experts in desalination, reuse and water treatment from companies throughout the sector’s value chain, public institutions, universities and research centres in the Canary Islands city with the aim of promoting collaboration and the exchange of knowledge and experiences. The latest research, innovations and technological advances related to these techniques for harnessing water resources will be presented.

14th IWA Specialist Group for Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (ICA)
2025-06-30 - 2025-07-02 | Oslo, Norway
ICA2024 will provide an international forum to exchange knowledge, methodologies, and experience on all aspects of ICA for water/ wastewater treatment and transport. Specific topics of the conference will include but not limited to sensors and instrumentation systems, online monitoring and control, modelling and simulation, early warning, information systems, decision support, risk assessment, big data, internet of things and smart water systems.

12th International Water Association Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-12 | Istanbul, Turkey
The “12th IWA International Symposium on Waste Management Problems in Agro-Industries” will be held in İstanbul, Türkiye (Turkey), a fascinating historical city, for the first time in many years. The event will be organized by Prof. Işık Kabdaşlı and Prof. Taku Fujiwara, who will serve as co-chairs. The IWA Agro-Symposia has made a substantial impact, offering a valuable platform for the dissemination of knowledge on cutting-edge scientific and technical solutions and fostering a comprehensive network of experts in the field.

CS4Water Conference 2025
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-18 | Delft, The Netherlands
Join us for the inaugural Citizen Science 4 Water (CS4Water) Conference that will be held 3-5 June 2025 in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference will focus on the crucial role citizen science plays within water resource monitoring, management and governance as well as community-led actions. Together, we will explore how citizen science can help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) around the world and future-proof healthy water bodies for generations to come.
For this inaugural CS4Water conference, we will focus on freshwater systems, diving into engaging workshop sessions, exploring innovative research, and connecting international water and citizen science experts.

IWA Membrane Technology Conference 2025
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-18 | Daegu, South Korea
More details to come.
