Showcase your best practice, latest innovation, cutting-edge
technology or industry-leading research at Europe's
premier event for wastewater professionals.
The 2026 Call for Abstracts will be released in December 2025. Sign-up to our mailing list to ensure you receive the latest announcements and event updates.
Media scrutiny of UK water companies is at an all-time high, with the spotlight constantly falling on CSOs, environmental quality and industry funding models. What this coverage often fails to mention is that the water sector is subject to both economic and environmental regulatory controls, and that difficult choices need to be made.
Meanwhile, the climate emergency demands attention and will not await an improved fiscal landscape. As a sector we are innovating, measuring, mitigating, engaging and working together to develop a supply chain capable of meeting these challenges; but can we accelerate this process?
This 2026 EWWM conference will as always, focus on practitioners’ experiences and provides a platform to collaborate and debate how our water community can drive improvement and change.
2025 Themes
- Process Emissions – with a focus on case studies of successful mitigation strategies; advances in measuring methodologies; examples of N2O reduction and improved effluent quality; emissions from innovative process intensification technologies
- Catchment approaches and Nature Based Solutions
- Micropollutants and emerging contaminants
- The Circular Economy – pathways and technologies to achieve circularity
- Total Nitrogen Removal – how low can we go with existing infrastructure and/or with plant upgrades?
- Recovering Ammoniacal Nitrogen
- Phosphorus Removal – Achieving low P consents (case studies) and sustainable P-removal
- Phosphorus Recovery – Technologies, case studies, opportunities
- Delivering AMP8 and beyond – digital advances to drive the pace of change
- Spills, CSOs & Stormwater
We ask that all abstract submissions include details of the carbon emissions of the project and how it can/could contribute to the circular economy.
2025 Poster Winner - Ayisha Affo Souleymane, Cranfield University
Student & Early Career Professionals' Poster Award
The award will be judged and presented during the conference and is open to students and early career professionals under 35 working in the water industry.
Presenting a poster at the EWWM is an opportunity to showcase your work to over 400 industry professionals.
Attending conferences is also a great way to improve your professional network and expand your knowledge of the industry. Students and early career professionals are also offered significantly reduced rates – please see the registration page for further details.
*Early career professionals must be an individual working professionally in the wastewater sector for less than 3 years after graduation; or an academic/postgraduate/post doctorate in a permanent position in a UK institution (full or part time), with no more than three years of experience at lecturer level.