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As part of IWA's role to promote networking and career development opportunities for young researchers and professionals, IWA established the Young Researchers Conference (YRC) in 2002 as a biennial international forum for young water professionals to discuss current and future environmental concerns and network with peers from different research institutions, disciplines and countries.
The selection of papers in this special issue of WEMS represents papers that were presented at the 3rd Young Researchers Conference (YRC06) held on the 24-26 May 2006 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The 58 papers from 23 countries were selected from 238 submissions and illustrate various aspects of water and wastewater engineering, technology and management including chapters on:
River Basin Restoration and Management
River Basin Restoration and Management is the result of two workshops that took place at the 4th IWA World Water Congress: The Restoration of Degraded River Basins and River Basin...
2nd IWA Leading-Edge on Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies
Wastewater and drinking water treatment are essential elements of urban infrastructure. In the course of the last century there has been enormous technical development, so successful that for the...
Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems
The World Health Organization estimates that globally one billion people are without access to safe water and two billion people without adequate sanitation. The health...
2nd IWA Leading-Edge on Sustainability in Water-Limited Environments
This book represents the outcome of the Second IWA Leading-Edge Conference held in Sydney, Australia in November 2004.
Sustainability is a paradoxical concept. We know we want to protect...
Renewal Engineering for Wastewater Pipelines: Synthesis Report
The research presented in this report was performed in order to compile and better understand the state of the technology for wastewater pipeline renewal engineering methodologies and technologies...
Biomethanization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Wastes
Biomethanization of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Wastes is a comprehensive introduction to both the fundamentals and the more practical aspects of the anaerobic digestion of...
Water and Environmental Challenges in a Changing World
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the sustainable management of water resources, especially considering the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus...
An Economic Framework for Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Biosolids Management Options
Agencies responsible for wastewater treatment have choices regarding how they manage their treatment process residuals. They can consider them waste products requiring suitable disposal (e.g.,...