APRIL 2008 NEWS

Members of the EWRE Section played a prominent role at a recent international research conference

Congratulations to Honwei Zhou and his wife on the birth of their son on 3rd April 2008.  

  Dr Stephen Smith and Dr Mike Rogers are presenting invited papers on inorganic contaminants and pathogens to The European Water Association Workshop on Knowledge and Practices of Using Treated Sewage Sludge on Land, 15-16 April 2008, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Welcome to Nataliya Bulygina who has recently joined the EWRE section.  Nataliya is 27 and from the Ukraine. She graduated (BA and MSc degrees) from Kharkov National University, Ukraine, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, with specialization in Mathematical Physics and Numerical Analysis.She obtained her PhD from The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Advisor- Professor Hoshin V. Gupta, dissertation: 'Model Structure Estimation and Correction through Data Assimilation'.

She worked in Germany for 3 months on a Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship  at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Studies.

She will be working on the FREE (Flood Risk from Extreme Events) with Professor Howard Wheater and Dr Neil McIntyre

Members of the EWRE Section played a prominent role at a recent international research conference held at the University of Cranfield on the 3rd April concerned with “Emerging Issues in Disinfection By-products”, in relation to drinking water quality. The conference, attended by Professor Nigel Graham, Dr Michael Templeton, Dr Zhuo Chen and Ms Lizzie Huang, provided an opportunity for the results from current EPSRC funded projects to be presented to a specialist audience of experts from industry, academia and Government. Nigel Graham gave a summary of laboratory experiments evaluating the contribution that algae make to the formation of haloacetic acids and Michael Templeton presented some early results of a National survey of the occurrence of NDMA and other nitrosamines in UK drinking water.

A New book series edited by Professor Cedo Maksimovic 

Prof.  Cedo Maksimovic has initiated publishing of a new book series in the area of Urban Water Management.

The Urban Water Book Series will have two strings as follows:

1. Books which are the outputs of the 9 projects of the UNESCO IHPVI  Urban Water Management Programme (to which Prof Maksimovic served as special advisor). Twelve books are planned to be published in this string. Three books have already been published the other are in the pipeline. This string is co-edited jointly with Dr Alberto Tejada-Guibert 
2. The other books outside the UNESCO programme. There is one book already published and a few more are in the pipeline.

The books are  published by Taylor and Francis which has recently been merged with CRC Press.  The relevant web site addresses are: 
www.crcpress.com   -   www.taylorandfrancis.co.uk  -   www.balkema.nl 

• Prof Cedo Maksimovic - co-Chairman of the next CCWI conference
  Prof Cedo Maksimovic and Dr Joby Boxal (University of Sheffield) are co-chairing  the next conference on Computers and Control in Water Industry that will be held between 1-3 September 2009 in Sheffield. This is the tenth in the CCWI series of biennial conferences, by the universities of Brunel, De Montfort, Exeter and Imperial College. Focusing mainly on water systems modelling and control.  Researchers and practitioners will be given the opportunity to discuss, present and disseminate recent advances in research and industry. Other short courses, group meetings and exhibitions, are also planned during the conference.http://www.shef.ac.uk/ccwi/index.html 
• Urban Flooding model tested for broader application in UK
  The module for urban flood modelling with advanced overland flow interactions, developed under Prof.  Maksimovic's coordination  (part of the  UWRG, Urban Water Research Group, programme)  within the FRMRC (Flood Risk Management Consortium) project is being tested by UKWIR (UK Water Industry Research) or broader applications in UK water industry and in UK Environmental Agency. Three test cases are used in testing and an independent consultants and UKWIR panel are assessing the  model performance.