Call for Abstracts
Showcase your best practice, latest innovation, cutting-edge technology or industry-leading research at Europe’s premier event for wastewater professionals.
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 year’s 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.
We are now inviting abstracts for both oral and poster presentations.
2025 Themes
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- Process Emissions – with a focus on case studies of successful mitigation strategies, advances in measuring methodologies, examples of N2O reduction and improved effluent quality, and 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.
Deadline for Abstracts – 31 January 2025
If you have any queries please get in touch with Sarah – sarah.brown@aquaenviro.co.uk
Technology Suppliers
As this is a technical conference, we encourage talks that share operational experiences. If you are a technology supplier and would like to be considered for an oral presentation, your abstract should include details such as site specifics and performance data. Ideally, the abstract should be presented by an appropriate client.
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CIWEM & Aqua Enviro
We are delighted to announce that CIWEM will be collaborating with Aqua Enviro to publish a special issue of the Water and Environment Journal, which will include expanded versions of the papers presented at the EWWM Conference.
Aqua Enviro events are well recognised and respected worldwide. These annual events act as a unique platform to disseminate technological, processes and science advancements in the interface between academia and industry in both water and wastewater areas, which fit perfectly with the scope of the Water and Environmental Journal.
Want to get involved? Submit an abstract for consideration.
Student and 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.
If you would like to showcase your work to over 250 industry professionals and be in with a chance of winning a monetary prize.
Attending conferences is 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 registration 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.
“As a young career professional new to the water industry, this conference was an amazing opportunity to become fully immersed in knowledge chambers and become exposed to so many new topics in the short span of two days. I would recommend this to anyone starting a career within water or sustainability, as it was a great chance to become inspired by the work going on out there. “
Business Partnerships Manager, Lancashire University
“The conference provided good insight into the challenges that wastewater treatments works face, what their goals are, and what is currently important to them. Though many of the topics were not directly related to my research, microplastic pollution, it was worthwhile discussing this topic with people from industry to understand their perspectives.”
PhD Student, University of Nottingham
All speakers are required to register and pay to present their work at the EWWM Conference. 2025 fees are outlined below:
| Ticket Type | Early Bird (ends 11 April) |
Standard | Virtual |
| Standard Delegate | £695 | £895 | £450 |
| Speakers/Water Utilities | £550 | £695 | £350 |
| Early Career Professionals | £595 | £750 | £395 |
| Students, Academics & Charities | £350 | £395 | £300 |
| Site Visit (Mon 16th June) | £100 | ||
| Conference Dinner | £100 |
All prices are ex. VAT
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