NORMAN

• Welcome by Dr Symeon Christodoulou, Associate Professor
  Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  NIREAS–International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Current challenges in the field of wastewater treatment and reuse
  Dr Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Assistant Professor
  Director of NIREAS–International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Provision of water in arid environments – Lessons in water use and reuse from Australia
  Scientia Professor T. David Waite
  Head of School, Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia
• The occurrence and chemical fate of pharmaceutical residues in the Israeli aquatic environment
  Dr. Dror Avisar, Head of the Hydro-chemistry Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Case study Switzerland: upgrading of wastewater treatment plants with an advanced treatment step to improve surface water quality
  Professor Juliane Hollender, Head of Department, Environmental Chemistry, EAWAG, Switzerland
• Illicit drugs in wastewater
  Dr Kevin Thomas, Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment, NIVA, Norway
• Safe Drinking Water? Effect of Wastewater Inputs and Source Water Impairment and Implications for Water Reuse
  Dr Susan D. Richardson

Friday, 14 September 2012

Session 2: WWTPs and Antibiotic resistance

• Detecting evolutionary hotspots of antibiotic resistances in Europe (EU COST Action DARE TD0803)
  Professor Thomas Berendonk
  Head of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Antibiotic resistance in urban wastewater: environmental contamination and risks of water reuse
  Dr. Celia Manaia, Assistant Professor
  CBQF/Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal
• The impact of treated wastewater irrigation on antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria
  Dr Eddie Cytryn
  Institute for Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, ARO, Volcani Agriculture Research Center, Israel

Session 3: Uptake of contaminants, Treatment technologies

• Extensive analytical evaluation of advanced tertiary treatments for water reuse purposes
  Professor Ana Agüera
  Departamento de Hidrogeología y Química Analítica, Universidad de Almería, Spain
• Uptake of organic microcontaminants by vegetables from irrigation waters. In vitro and field evidence
  Dr Josep M. Bayona
  Research Professor, IDAEA-CSIC, Environmental Chemistry Department, Spain
• Use of advanced oxidation processes to destroy cyanotoxins, taste and odor compounds, and selected pharmaceuticals in water treatment and reuse applications
  Professor Dionysios (Dion) D. Dionysiou
  Center of Sustainable Urban Engineering, Drinking Water, Water Supply, Quality, and Treatment, and Environmental Nanotechnology Laboratories
  University of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Advanced oxidation of estrogens, antibiotics and other water emerging contaminants and the potential for solar detoxification and water reuse (11 MB)
  Professor Gianluca Li Puma
  Photocatalysis and Photoreaction Engineering,Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
• Disinfection of urban wastewater by solar driven and UV lamp –TiO2 photocatalysis: effect on a multi drug resistant E. coli strain
  Dr. Luigi Rizzo, Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno University of Salerno, Italy

• 10-minute Presentations
  General topics on wastewater reuse and emerging contaminants
  1. Predicting the fate of emerging contaminants in sewage treatment plants: evolution of the SimpleTreat model
     Dr. Antonio Franco, Unilever, United Kingdom
  2. Monitoring of water quality using photometric technique. Case study: Application of Hungarian developed Robotic Water Analyser
     Dr. Ákos Rédey, University of Pannonia, Hungary
  3. Organics removal and minimization of degradation products during treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater
     Dr. Giuseppe Mascolo, Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy
  4. Required Ozone doses for achieving 90% removal of pharmaceuticals from Swedish WWWTP effluents
     Dr. Maria G. Antoniou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
  5. Ecotoxicity assessment of wastewater containing mixtures of active pharmaceutical ingredients
     Dr. M. I. Vasquez, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  6. Disinfection of urban wastewater by solar driven and UV lamp –TiO2 photocatalysis: effect on a multi drug resistant E. coli strain
     Dr. Luigi Rizzo, University of Salerno, Italy
  7. Prevalence of Tetracycline Resistance in the wastewater treatment plant
     Dr. Magdalena Popowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
  8. Persistence and dissemination of the multiple-antibiotic-resistance plasmid pB10 in complex environment matrices
     Dr. Christophe Merlin, Université de Lorraine, France
  9. Comparison of photocatalytic degradation for series of dyes
     Dr. Marie-Noëlle Pons, Nancy Université, France