EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
(EAWRES)

Announcement

The web page of the Academy of Water Resources Engineers and Scientists is near completion. There are only a few names missing from the list of Honorary Diplomates. These names will be included soon. It should be mentioned that the Academy will be fully operational in June/July 2025.

[April 2024]

13th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2025)

“New challenges in understanding and managing water-related risks in a changing environment”

24 - 28 June 2025, Palermo, Italy

Announcement

The 13th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) on Water Resources and Environment under the title ”New challenges in understanding and managing water-related risks in a changing environment” (EWRA2025) will be held in Palermo, Italy, June 24th-28th, 2025.

Details on the Congress are available in the 1st announcement and call for papers, which is now available online. For any updates please visit the Congress website regularly (currently under construction).

[January 2024]

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
(EAWRES)

Announcement

The General Assembly (GA) of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) held in Madrid on the 26th of June 2019, decided the establishment of the European Academy of Water Resources Engineers and Scientists (EAWRES). This decision was ratified during the GA of EWRA held in Thessaloniki on the 28th of June 2023.

The establishment document and the initial list of honorary diplomates, selected following the criteria presented at the GA of 2019, are now available online.

[January 2024]

JOURNALS OF EWRA

New Impact Factors for the journals of EWRA

Announcement

We are delighted to announce the new Impact Factors of the journals of EWRA (published by Springer) for 2022.

The “Water Resources Management” journal achieved a 3-year Impact Factor 4.3. The journal belongs to the first ranking group of journals (Q1) in both categories of CIVIL ENGINEERING and WATER ROSOURCES. The journal also achieved a significant increase in the total number of citations compared to the previous year.

The “Environmental Processes” journal achieved a 3-year Impact Factor 4.4, although it was the first year during which it was included in the list of journals with Impact Factor.

[December 2023]

12th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2023)

“Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability”

27 June - 1 July 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece

The 12th EWRA World Congress at a glance

The 12th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment took place in Thessaloniki 27 June - 1 July 2023, with great success.

The Congress with the title “Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability” was devoted to the memory of two pioneers/founders of EWRA, Marcello Benedini and Janusz Kindler, who passed away recently.

During the Congress, about 200 contributions were presented. The contributions included keynote speeches, oral, poster and distant presentations. Fruitful discussions took place during the conferences of the Congress and during the technical visit to the hydraulic project facilities and structures in the region.

During the General Assembly (GA) of EWRA, held on the 28^th of June, important decisions were taken. Among them was the selection of Palermo as the venue of the 13th World Congress in June 2025. Also, the GA voted for keeping the same Executive Committee together with a new member Prof. Gulay Onusluel Gul who was elected in the empty position of the board due to the recent death of Nilgun Harmancioglu.

Finally, the establishment of the “European Academy for Water Resources Engineers and Scientists” (initially announced during the GA of the 11th World Congress of EWRA in Madrid 2019) was ratified and 5 new members of EWRA were named “honorary diplomates”. Details of all the decisions taken will be shortly available in the minutes of the GA.

[August 2023]

13th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2025)

“Understanding and Managing Water related Risks in a Changing Environmen”

24-28 June 2025, Palermo, Italy

Preliminary Announcement

According to the decisions of the General Assembly of EWRA held in Thessaloniki-Greece on the 28^th June 2023, the next World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment will be held in Palermo 24-28 June 2025.

The title of the Congress is “Understanding and Managing Water related Risks in a Changing Environment”.

The Congress will be organised by the University of Palermo - Dept. of Engineering.

Chairman of the Congress is Prof. Leonardo Valerio Noto.

The first announcement with detailed information for participation in the Congress and the call for papers will be available by the end of 2023.

[August 2023]

12th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2023)

“Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability”

27 June - 1 July 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece

Announcement

The 12th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) on Water Resources and Environment with the title “Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability” will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 27 June - 1 July 2023 (EWRA2023).

Details on the Congress are available in the 2nd announcement and call for papers, as well as at the Congress website (http://ewra2023.ewra.net). For any updates please visit the Congress website regularly.

[October 2022]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES

Impact Factor for the journal Environmental Processes

Announcement

We were informed that Clarivate Analytics made the decision according to which all journals in the list of Web of Science Core Collection will receive Impact Factors as per next year.

According to this development our journal ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES will receive Impact Factor next year (2023).

[July 2022]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal - Published by Springer
for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA)

Announcement

We are delighted to announce that according to the 2021 JCR, the journal of EWRA “WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT” (published by Springer)

achieved a 3-year Impact Factor 4.426

The Impact Factor was increased by 26% compared to the Impact Factor of 2020 which was 3.517.

The journal belongs to the first ranking group of journals (Q1) in both categories CIVIL ENGINEERING and WATER RESOURCES.

[July 2022]

12th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2023)

“Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability”

27 June - 1 July 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece

Announcement

The World Congress of EWRA (EWRA2021), scheduled to be held in 2021, was postponed due to the worldwide negative developments of the CONVID-19 pandemic. It is now announced that the 12th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) on Water Resources and Environment will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 27 June - 1 July 2023 (EWRA2023). The EWRA2023 with the title “Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic, Environmental and Social Instability” will review and discuss the advances in a number of topics organized in Conferences as follows:

CONFERENCES
      I. Hydrological Extremes and Hazards under Climatic Instability
     II. Water Related Hazards and risks
    III. Water Quality and Advanced Water Treatment
    IV. Hydrological Modelling of Complex River Basins
     V. Urban and Agricultural Water Systems
    VI. Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus
   VII. Ecosystems and Environmental Processes
  VIII. Groundwater Contamination and Management
    IX. Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing and Big Data Handling
     X. Transboundary River Basin Management and Hydrodiplomacy
    XI. Socioeconomic Aspects and Water Resources Policies and Governance
   XII. Global Water Security

VENUE
Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center (KEDEA)

DEADLINES
Deadline for submission of Extended Abstracts: 31 January 2022

Details on the Congress will be given in the 2nd announcement expected to be circulated in September 2022.

[June 2022]

SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE ADAPTIVE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

Announcement - Extension

In order to satisfy several requests, the period for submitting papers for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Water Resources Management "Adaptive Water Resources Management under Climate Change"

is extended up to the end of July 2022.

The Guest Editors       

[June 2022]

SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE ADAPTIVE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE

Announcement - Invitation

As known a new Special Issue of WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT will be prepared as a tribute to the memory of Nilgun Harmancioglu, who served EWRA as member of the Executive Committee for several years.

The new Special Issue will focus on the Adaptive Water Resources Management under Climate Change.

The Guest Editors of the Special Issue will be Professors G. Tsakiris and D.E. Loucks.

The platform is now available through the Editorial Manager of the Journal for submitting papers for this Special Issue “Adaptive Management”.

The papers can review any aspect of adaptive water resources management or report on proposed or applied good practices in this scientific field.

The issue is open to all scientists and engineers who can offer innovative and applicable ideas to this emerging scientific area.

All papers will be reviewed following the standards and the procedures of the journal.

[February 2022]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal - Published by Springer
for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA)

Announcement

We are delighted to announce that according to the 2020 JCR, the journal of EWRA “WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT” (published by Springer)

achieved a 3-year Impact Factor 3.517

The number of citations reached 14215 in one year.

The Impact Factor was increased by 20% compared to the impact factor of 2019.

According to the number of citations the journal ranks within the first 10 journals in the field of water resources showing its dominance in the field.

[July 2021]

ADAPTIVE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
Special Issue of Water Resources Management

Guest Editors: G. Tsakiris and D.P. Loucks

A Tribute to the memory of Nilgun Harmancioglu

Invitation

Since early 1960s, the complex multi-disciplinary nature of water resources management has been widely recognized. Based on the pioneering works of the Harvard Water Program and the benchmark applications of systems analysis that followed from researchers at a variety of universities, advanced mathematical modelling techniques involving optimization and simulation processes were proposed for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of water resources systems.

During the next decades, the development and growth of interdisciplinary planning, integrated management, and water resources governance brought new dimensions and enriched the scientific debate on how to achieve a more efficient, effective and adaptive management of our water resources. More recently, increasing emphasis has been given to the limitations and prospects of the environment (environmental footprint) and other aspects closely associated with water resources such as energy and food production (the water-energy-food nexus).

Today, in addition to the issues just mentioned, policy makers, planners and administrators are faced with the challenge of the continuous changing conditions due to anthropogenic interventions, increasing economic growth and development, population mobility, rapid technological changes and climate change, all of which impact the demand for water.

Focusing on climate change, water managers have to deal with the non-stationarity of hydrometeorological phenomena. This challenges those making projections of future expected changes in the various dimensions of water resources systems in most parts of the world.

Based on the vast literature addressing climatic change and its impact on water resource systems, it seems reasonable to us to synthesize this knowledge so as to better understand how we can ensure the sustainability of both human and natural water resources systems.

In this special issue, we intend to focus on the adaptive management of water resources mostly related to non-stationary climatic conditions. We also intend to assist in formulating innovative methodologies and produce recommendations for best practices and the building of institutions that can meet these growing challenges.

The guest editors of this Special Issue seek to include papers that review the existing knowledge and that show how we can use that knowledge to assist policy makers, administrators and practitioners who face the challenges in water resources management due to climate change.

Authors are invited to submit their proposals for papers for this Special Issue between now and the end of September by sending a title and an abstract of their proposal to the first guest editor (gtsakir@central.ntua.gr). If it appears we will be able to produce this special issue based on these proposals, we will establish a deadline at that time. All the full papers should be submitted through the Editorial Manager of the journal WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT by selecting the type “SI Adaptive Management”.

[July 2021]

12th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2021)

“Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic Instability”

* Postponed *

Announcement

During 2020 we have been working hard trying to ensure a successful organisation of the 12th EWRA World Congress which was scheduled for July 2021 in Warsaw, Poland.

However, in light of the ongoing worldwide negative developments of the CONVID-19 pandemic, we realize that the organisation of the Congress may not be realistic in the current situation.

Originally, we considered organising a Virtual Congress with only distant presentations. However, after having attended and observed conferences organised this way, and considering that the essence of a Congress, in addition to presentation of quality papers, is the vivid communication and interaction of participants, we decided to postpone the Congress for a future date. This date will be announced as soon as the situation with CONVID-19 is clarified. We hope for your understanding.

Instead of the Congress, the Organising Committee decided to announce the preparation of two special Issues in the two Springer journals of EWRA, Water Resources Management and Environmental Processes.

The themes of the two special issues are:

•  Adaptive Water Resources Management to Climate Change  (Water Resources Management)

•  Nature-Based Solutions in Water Resources and Waste Management  (Environmental Processes)

The call for papers for these special issues will be open to all EWRA members and other interested scientists and engineers.

More information will be announced in due course.

The Organising Committee       

[December 2020]

12th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2021)

“Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic Instability”

29 June - 3 July 2021, Warsaw-Poland

Announcement

The 12th World Congress of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) on Water Resources and Environment will be held in Warsaw-Poland 29 June - 3 July 2021. The Congress with the title “Managing Water-Energy-Land-Food under Climatic Instability” will review and discuss the advances in a number of topics organised in Conferences as follows:

CONFERENCES
      I. Hydrological Extremes under Climatic Instability
     II. Water Related Hazards and risks
    III. Water Quality and Advanced Water Treatment
    IV. Hydrological Modelling of Complex River Basins
     V. Urban and Agricultural Water Systems
    VI. Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus
   VII. Ecosystems and Environmental Processes
  VIII. Groundwater Contamination and Management
    IX. Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing and Big Data Handling
     X. Transboundary River Basin Management and Hydrodiplomacy
    XI. Socioeconomic Aspects and Water Resources Governance
   XII. Global Water Security

DEADLINES
Deadline for submission of Extended Abstracts: 31 December 2020.

[February 2020]

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2019)

“Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future”

25-29 June 2019, Madrid

Announcement for Special Issues

Selected papers from the 11th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment will be processed for possible publication in the journals of EWRA. The specially appointed committees for the selection of these papers are working to finalise the lists of selected papers for each journal. The final lists will be available at http://ewra2019.ewra.net/special-issues.

For any updates please visit the Congress website regularly (http://ewra2019.ewra.net).

[September 2019]

EWRA General Assembly 2019

Madrid, 26 June 2019
 

Minutes of the General Assembly of EWRA

The major decisions taken during the General Assembly of EWRA held at the Technical University of Madrid on the 26th of June 2019 are:

1) ACCOUNT OF ACTIVITIES

A short account of activities during the period 2017 – 2019 was given by G. Tsakiris and L. Garrote. The account included the organisation of the Congresses in Athens in 2017 and in Madrid in 2019 as well as the publication of all Special Issues in the journals of EWRA which included selected papers from the Athens Congress.

It was concluded that both Congresses were successful and well organized. More than 300 contributions were submitted in each of these Congresses.

Also several proposals submitted to H2020 and PRIMA framework were discussed by the research groups formed by members of EWRA.

 

2) EWRA PUBLICATIONS

V. Tsihrintzis presented an account on the EWRA publications concentrating more on the journals (Water Resources Management, Environmental Processes, European Water and Water Utility Journal). It was stressed that the Editorial boards of all journals will be updated during the remaining months of the year for all journals.

WARM had one more success this year increasing its impact factor from 2.64 to 2.99 maintaining the status of the journal among the top journals in the field of water resources.

WARM belongs to Q1 status of journals in the category of Water Resources and also in the category of Civil Engineering.

Environmental Processes is now publishing its 6th volume. It is a SCOPUS indexed journal with cite score about 2.0 and has been included in emerging sources index of Clarivate Analytics which is the step just before acquiring the impact factor.

The other two journals “The European Water” and the “Water Utility journal” will continue publishing papers of more applied topics at no charge, freely available in the internet.

 

3) EUROPEAN ACADEMY FOR WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS

G. Tsakiris and R. Maia presented the idea of establishing the European Academy for Water Resources Engineers and Scientists, a body within EWRA which will enhance EWRA’s activities and reputation in the scientific community. The aim of the Academy is to embrace distinguished members of the scientific community with a memorable contribution to the society.

It was proposed that in the first list of honorary diplomates of the Academy, all honored members of EWRA and the key organisers of EWRA Congresses after 2009 will be included.

R. Maia will present to the EC of EWRA soon the identity of the new body and the major rules of its operation.

 

4) VENUE

Several possible venues were proposed for organising the next Congress of EWRA. Among them (based mainly on the criterion of easy access to the participants) were Belgrade, Warsaw and Rome. Other possible venues were also presented such as Sardinia, Valencia, Novi Sad and Crete. The Executive committee will contact the local organisers and decide upon the venue starting from Belgrade and Warsaw.

 

5) HONORING DISTINGUISHED EWRA MEMBERS

The GA of EWRA honored Professors Andreas Schumann, Alberto Carrido, Micha Werner and Joaquin Andreu for their scientific achievements in the field of water resources management and the remarkable contribution to the society.

[September 2019]

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2019)

“Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future”

New date: 25-29 June 2019, Madrid

Announcement

The 11th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment will take place in Madrid from 25th to 29th of June 2019.
Please note that there is a change of the initially announced dates (2-6 July).
This change was imposed due to the fact that most probably the initially announced period for the Congress coincides with the university entrance examinations which take place in Spain occupying the facilities of the universities.
The venue of the 11th World Congress is:
Civil Engineering School of Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria campus)

Note: All other dates and deadlines related to the Congress remain unchanged. A small delay of some days for the operation of the platform for the submission of extended abstracts and registration is due to the change of dates.

For any updates regarding the Congress, please visit the Congress website regularly (http://ewra2019.ewra.net).

The Organising Committee of the 11th World Congress of EWRA

[September 2018]

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2019)

“Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future”

2-6 July 2019, Madrid

Keynote Speakers

	Andreas Schumann Professor for Hydrology and Water Management Ruhr University Bochum Germany
	Micha Werner Associate Professor in Flood Risk Management and River Basin Development IHE Delft Senior Hydrologist at Deltares Netherlands
	Joaquín Andreu Full Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) Spain
	Alberto Garrido Full Professor of Agricultural Economics Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Director of the Water Observatory of the Botín Foundation Spain

For any updates regarding the Congress, please visit the Congress website regularly (http://ewra2019.ewra.net).

[September 2018]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

Post Congress Activities

Announcement

We would like to inform you that in order to satisfy the requests by the authors of the papers of EWRA2017, which will be submitted for possible publication in the Special Issues of the Journals Water Resources Management, Environmental Processes and Water Utility Journal, we have decided to extend the deadline for full paper submission in these Special Issues until the end of December 2017.

Please note that during submission, the authors should choose the appropriate Special Issue as follows:

• Water Resources Management: SI:EWRA2017 (Hydrological Processes and Water Resources Management)

• Environmental Processes: SI Water Quality and Environmental Technology

• Water Utility Journal: Indicate "EWRA2017 special issue" in the subject line of the e-mail

Details will be sent to the authors by e-mail in the next few days.

The Organising Committee of the 10th World Congress of EWRA

[November 2017]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES
An International Journal

Announcement

We are glad to announce that the newest journal of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Environmental Processes, published by Springer, has been included in Emerging Citation Index (ESCI) database of Clarivate Analytics’ (formerly Thomson Reuters’) Web of Science.

Journals accepted for coverage in ESCI must have certain qualities: they must be peer reviewed, follow ethical publishing practices, meet technical requirements, have English language bibliographic information, and be recommended or requested by a scholarly audience of Web of Science users. Acceptance in ESCI is a first step towards being included in Science Citation Index (SCI), since journals are initially evaluated for the ESCI, and then will undergo a second review for inclusion in SCI.

Being indexed in the ESCI, Environmental Processes will be discoverable via the Web of Science, like SCI journals, with full citation counts and author information. Articles published in Environmental Processes will be included in the author’s H-Index calculation, and also in any analysis conducted on Web of Science data.

The journal has also been included in Scopus since its first day of publication. It currently has completed its fourth volume. The Cite Score of the journal is 2.02 for 2016, raised from 1.10 in 2015. Over the last four years, 798 papers have been submitted and 256 published (acceptance rate 32.1%) covering 4182 pages. The journal ranks as follows in the respective categories:

• Water Science & Technology: 35th out of 184 journals

• Environmental Engineering: 29th out of 99 journals

• Pollution: 33rd out of 100 journals

• Health, Toxicilogy & Mutagenesis: 47th out of 102 journals

• Management, Monitoring, Policy & Law: 54th out of 236 journals

We would like to thank all the authors, EWRA and Springer for making the journal a success.

[November 2017]

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2019)

2-6 July 2019, Madrid

Announcement

The first announcement of the 11th World Congress on Water Resources and the Environment (EWRA2019) can be reached at http://ewra2019.ewra.net.

[October 2017]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Announcement

1. As known, all the papers presented at the 10th World Congress of EWRA will appear in the Proceedings which will be published as special issues of the journal EUROPEAN WATER. Four 2017 issues of the journal will be assigned to the Proceedings. All the issues will be published by the end of the year (tentatively). We are currently in the process of sending the proofs to the corresponding author(s) of each paper. This process will last up to the end of the year.

2. A specially appointed Committee took the responsibility to select papers, which should be expanded by at least 50%, and then be processed for peer review and possible publication in the three journals of EWRA: Water Resources Management, Environmental Processes and Water Utility Journal. Guidelines for revising the papers are attached. Submitted papers should be formatted according to each journal style (please see instructions).

The Guest Editors of the three journals are:

• Water Resources Management: V.A. Tsihrintzis, H. Vangelis

• Environmental Processes: A. Loukas, D. Tigkas

• Water Utility Journal: G. Karatzas, G. Tsakiris

Submission deadline: 30 November 2017

The Organising Committee of the 10th World Congress of EWRA

Note: Obviously, the Guest Editors of these Special Issues of the Journals removed their papers, which were presented in the Congress, from the selection process.

Selected articles for “Water Resources Management”

Guidelines for submission to Water Resources Management

Selected articles for “Environmental Processes”

Guidelines for submission to Environmental Processes

Selected articles for “Water Utility Journal”

Guidelines for submission to Water Utility Journal

[September 2017]

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment
(EWRA2019)

2-6 July 2019, Madrid

Announcement

According to the decision taken in the General Assembly of EWRA, the 11th World Congress on Water Resources and the Environment (EWRA2019) will be held in Madrid (Spain), 2-6 July 2019. The first announcement and call for papers will be available in due course.

[September 2017]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

The Congress at a glance

The 10th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment was held in Athens 5-9 July 2017. The Congress was successfully completed.

More than 400 delegates from more than 65 countries took part in the Congress activities. A significant number of participants came from countries outside Europe. In total, some 1200 scientists and engineers contributed to the Congress.

The Congress included:
  • Keynote speeches
  • Oral presentations
  • Poster presentations
  • Demonstration presentations
  • Distant presentations
  • Round table discussions
  • Special sessions
  • Software workshops and seminars

The main core of the Congress was organized in nine conferences:
  • Advances in Hydrological Processes
  • Climate and Water Resources
  • Water Resources Management
  • Droughts and Water Scarcity
  • Water Quality and Environmental Processes
  • Urban Water Networks
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Groundwater Hydrology and Contamination
  • Legislation and Policies

The rich Social Programme of the Congress also helped in creating a friendly and pleasant atmosphere. The accompanying persons participated in organized tours to important historic, traditional and modern sites of Athens. Finally, the participants had the opportunity to visit the first capital of modern Greece, Nauplion, in an excursion at the end of the Congress.

During the Congress, the General Assembly (GA) of EWRA took place leading to the renewal of the term in office of the existing Executive Committee. The GA also honoured three distinguished members of EWRA, P.E. O’Connell, S. Simonovic and N. Tsiourtis, for their service to the society and their achievements in water resources management.

Important decisions were also taken during the GA towards the establishment of a European Institute on Water Resources and Environment, which will be involved in research and educational activities.

Finally, the GA decided to organise the next World Congress in Madrid – Spain, in July 2019.

[September 2017]

EWRA General Assembly 2017

7 July 2017, Athens, Greece
Wyndham Grand Athens Hotel

Announcement

The General Assembly of EWRA took place in Athens-Greece, Wyndham Grand Hotel, on Friday 7 July 2017.

The main decisions of the GA are:

1. Approval of the account of the previous term in office of the Executive Committee.

2. Minor amendments to the Statutes to reflect the present situation in the association.

3. Approval of the plan to organise the European Institute on Water Resources & Environment (tentative title) affiliated to EWRA, aiming at convening research & technological development studies, disseminating research findings through a number of electronic and printed publications, pursuing specialised courses and seminars, and providing consulting services to governments and organisations.

4. Enhancing dissemination activities by improving existing publications and possibly developing new ones, and utilising new electronic technologies.

5. Organisation on the next World Congress of EWRA to be held in Madrid – Spain, July 2019.

6. Renewing the term in office of the existing Executive Committee, for four years, starting 1 January 2018. The same was decided for the secretary and the deputy secretary of the Central Office of EWRA. The selection of National Representatives will be made by the Executive Committee for the period Jan 2018 – Dec 2021.

In addition:

1. The GA honoured the following three distinguished EWRA members:

•  P.E. O’ Connell, Univ. of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
•  S. Simonovic, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
•  N. Tsiourtis, Consultant, Cyprus

As known, this award is given to distinguished members of EWRA, for their sustained and remarkable contributions to the scientific field of water resources management, and their continuous service to the society.

2. With deep sorrow, the death of Prof. Evan Vlachos, distinguished member of EWRA, was announced and a reference to his personality and achievements was made.

[September 2017]

EWRA General Assembly 2017

1 July 2017, Athens, Greece
Wyndham Grand Athens Hotel

Announcement

The General Assembly of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) is planned to take place at Wyndham Grand Athens (Karaiskaki sq., Athens) on Friday 1 July 2017 at 18:30.

The GA may decide legally in the presence of at least 1/5 of the members of the association.

If the quorum is not met during this GA, a second GA is planned to take place at the same venue on Friday 7 July, 18:30-20:00. The second GA can decide legally irrespective of the number of members present.

The Agenda of the General Assembly is as follows:

  1. Review of activities 2015-2017
  2. Selection of venue for the 11th World Congress of EWRA

  3. Amendments of the Statutes

  4. Elections for the members of EC and BM

  5. Future activities

  6. Other topics

  7. Synopsis of decisions

The members of EWRA are invited to propose the venue of the next EWRA World Congress. They are also invited to propose nominations of distinguished members to be honoured. Proposals should be set to the President of EWRA (water@survey.ntua.gr) before the beginning of the Congress.

[June 2017]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Deadline Extension of full paper submission

The Organising and Scientific Committee of the Congress in its meeting today (16/2/2017) decided to extend the deadline for full paper submission for three weeks. The new deadline is 5th of March 2017. This decision satisfies the large number of requests delivered during the previous days.

[February 2017]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

“Registration" is now open

Interested participants are informed that the registration facilities are now available through the platform "Eventora" at http://ewra2017.ewra.net/registration-form/

The “money saver” option is extended up to 31st December 2016.

[December 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

“Money Saver” Option for Registration Extended

The Organising and Scientific Committee of the Congress in its meeting on 25th November 2016, decided to extend the “money saver” option up to 21st December 2016, due to several requests.

The platform for the registration will be available online in the next few days.

[November 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended

The Organising and Scientific Committee in its meeting on the 31 October 2016 decided to extend the deadline for Abstract Submission for three weeks.

Thus the new deadline is 21 November 2016. All the other deadlines remain unchanged.

To get information on the Congress please visit our website http://ewra2017.ewra.net which is frequently updated.

To submit your abstract please visit the following link: http://ewra2017.ewra.net/abstract_submission/

Note: It is stressed that the abstracts submitted during this round are intended to be used for the evaluation and selection of papers for presentation in the Congress. The abstracts which will be available to the participants during the Congress will be the abstracts included in the full version of the papers accepted.

[November 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Abstract submissions

The Organising and Scientific Committee announces that the abstract submission is now open. Abstracts of all types of papers can be submitted only through the available submission form.

Detailed instructions may be found at http://ewra2017.ewra.net/submissions

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors soon after.

[July 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Announcement

The website of the 10th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment is now available at:

http://ewra2017.ewra.net

Interested scientists may regularly visit this web site for all the developments related to the organisation of the Congress. Soon, the guidelines for submission of abstracts and papers and information on registration and accommodation will be available at this site.

[April 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

Second Announcement

Announcement
(.pdf, 1736 KB)

[March 2016]

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
on Water Resources and Environment

“Panta Rhei”

5-9 July 2017, Athens (Greece)

First Announcement

Based on the decision of the General Assembly of EWRA held in Porto (26 June 2013), which was reaffirmed during the General Assembly of EWRA in Istanbul (10 June 2015), the 10th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment will be held in Athens, 5-9 July 2017.

The aim of the Congress is to promote environmentally sustainable water resources management and assist in improving the capacity of countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change and natural hazards.

The Congress intends to become a benchmark event, by gathering a large number of scientists and engineers from various countries and cultures around the world, who will interact and explore ways to face the old and new global and regional challenges on water resources and ecosystems, for the benefit of the present and future generations.

The Congress will be organised in a number of specialised Conferences around the following topics:
     o Hydrological Processes in a Changing Environment
     o Groundwater Hydrology and Contamination
     o Geo-information and Water Resources
     o Water Distribution and Water Treatment
     o Water Pollution and Eco-systems Conservancy
     o Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
     o Climate and Land Use Changes
     o Environmental Vulnerability and Risk
     o Water-Energy-Food Nexus
     o Sustainable and Adaptive Water Resources Management
     o Social, Political, Institutional and Legislative Aspects

Key issue behind these topics is the non-stationarity of variables and processes, which is delineated by the saying of the ancient philosopher Heraclitus “Panta rhei” (everything flows).

[November 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

Announcement

Submission of papers in Special Issues of EWRA Journals

"Water Resources Management" and "Environmental Processes"

Due to some administrative delays for the preparation of the journals to accept papers for the Special Issues, submission will be possible in a few days and the deadline for the submission will be the end of November. Please make sure that you only submit your paper under the specific Special Issue.

"Water Utility journal" and "European Water"

The submission is already possible. Please specify that the submission is intended for the Special Issue (e.g. EWRA2015 may be used in the subject line of the e-mail). For the “Water Utility Journal” please use the e-mail address “waterutility@ewra.net”, while for the ‘European Water” journal please use the e-mail address “puboffice@ewra.net”.

[October 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

Announcement

Selection of papers for the Journals of EWRA

The lists containing the selected papers which are invited to be submitted for possible publication in the journals of EWRA are now available.

The authors of the papers are invited to submit their papers (possibly amended and enhanced) to the corresponding journals, following the "guide for authors" and the submission procedures of each journal. Please do not forget to indicate "EWRA2015 Special Issue" were appropriate during the submission. The deadline of submission is October 31, 2015.

Lists of selected papers

[September 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

Announcement

Papers Selection for the Journals of EWRA

The procedure for the papers which will be selected for possible publication in the special issues of the journals of EWRA is reaching its final stage. The announcement of the selected papers will be in September. The authors of the selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to the corresponding journal within one month from the date of the invitation.

All interested authors are asked to visit regularly our web site for any relevant announcements.

Please note that the first Special Issue of the journal ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES from the Congress is already online and open to visit at the journal’s site. This special issue contains the keynote papers presented during the 9th World Congress of EWRA in Istanbul.

[August 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

10-13 June 2015, Istanbul

Honouring distinguished members of EWRA

The president Prof. G. Tsakiris announced the honoured members of EWRA in a ceremony during the General Assembly: Prof. Mehmetcik Bayazit, Prof. Janusz Kindler and Prof. Nilgun Harmancioglu.

He presented the three Professors and handed the Medallion and the certificate.

As known this award is given to distinguished members of EWRA for their sustained and remarkable contributions to the scientific field of water resources management, and their continuous service to the society.

Below are the short biographies of the honoured members.

Mehmetçik BAYAZIT

Mehmetcik Bayazit was born in 1937. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 1960 as a civil engineer. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961-63. He received MS degree in 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley and the PhD degree in 1965 at Istanbul Technical University in Hydraulic Engineering.

He was Assistant Professor until 1969 at Istanbul Technical University, and then Associate Professor until 1975, and later Professor until his retirement in 2004 in the same institution. He was a Visiting Research Engineer in Hydraulic Research Station in England, 1966-1967, Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Japan in 1972, and Visiting Professor at the George Washington University, USA, in 1983-84.

He was given the Science Award of Turkish National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, in the year 1983 for studies in Stochastic Hydraulics and Hydrology.

He published 12 books, 40 research papers in international journals and 30 basic and applied research reports. He presented 40 conference papers in international meetings.

He was a pioneer in starting hydrology education, in Turkey for Civil Engineers. He wrote the first textbook in Turkish on Hydrology in 1974, which was reprinted several times. He published 8 more books related with Hydrology and Water Resources.

Janusz KINDLER

Janusz Kindler is Professor Emeritus at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). He has been with WUT, teaching, conducting research and consulting on the application of systems analysis to water resources and environmental policy, planning and management. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Leader of Water Management and Hydrology Department. In addition to lecturing at Warsaw University of Technology, he was invited to lecture and hold seminars at several foreign universities (Kyoto, Lund, Budapest, Brussels and others). He worked at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) from 1977 to 1983 as a Water Project Leader first and as Chairman of Resources and Environment Research Area next. He was Senior Water Resources Planner with the World Bank (Washington DC) from 1992 to 1996, where he worked mostly on the water and environmental strategy for the Aral Sea Basin. He was Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Water Resources (SCOWAR) of ICSU (1993-1997), the first Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest (1990-1992), and Chairman of the Regional Council of the Global Water Partnership for Central and Eastern Europe (2000-2005).

Currently Prof. Kindler is concentrating on application of the EU water-related directives in Poland and climate change, vulnerability and adaptation studies; among others participating in development of climate change adaptation strategy for Poland.

Prof. Kindler is a member of the Water Resources Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Hydrologists. He is currently involved in the development of the WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Program in Central and Eastern Europe.

Nilgün B. HARMANCIOĞLU

Prof.Dr.Nilgun B. Harmancioglu is a professor of hydrology and water resources, teaching and carrying out research activities at DEU Faculty of Engineering since 1976 (formerly at Aegean University between 1976 and 1982).

She received her BSc. in civil engineering in 1973, MSc. in water resources engineering in 1976, and her PhD. in hydrology and water resources in 1981. She was promoted to associate professorship in 1986 and to full professorship in 1992 at DEU Faculty of Engineering.

She spent a year between 1980-81 in Paris, Ecole National Superieure des Mines de Paris, Centre d'Informatique Geologique, Laboratoire d'Hydrogeologie Mathematique for post-doctoral studies on optimum design of hydrometric data collection networks. (with professors G. de Marsily and Pierre Huber).

Between 1984-86, she worked as a research associate in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, International Water Resources Institute (with Professor Vujica Yevjevich). There she carried out a research project on monitoring and evaluation of water quality data and another one funded by NSF on precipitation-runoff modeling.

Dr. Harmancioglu's basic areas of research are water resources management, simulation of hydrologic processes and information theory as applied to water resources. In the 80’s and 90’s she worked on the entropy principle and pioneered its application to water quality and other hydrometric networks.

She has about 350 publications in the relevant areas, 70% of which are in English. She conducted 35 graduation projects and 15 graduate theses up-to-date in addition to various research projects funded by NATO, IWMI, the British Council, the State Planning Agency, DEU, TUBITAK and EU. She and her team contributed to EU FP5, FP6, and FP7 Program projects and are now partners in a Horizon 2020 project.

Dr. Harmancioglu acted as a member of the editorial board of the book series "Water Science and Technology Library" of Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer). She herself published and edited 4 books published by Springer. She has contributed to several international conferences and symposia as a co-director, lecturer and member of organization committees.

Dr. Harmancioglu is currently a member of such international organizations as AGU, AWRA, EWRA, IAHS, NYAS, and IWA. She has also been assigned as a member to the National Engineering Committee of the Higher Education Council of Turkey, established in 1995. She acted as a member of the Theme Advisory Board for UNESCO IHP-VI Program between 2002 and 2007. At present, she is the Director of SUMER (Water Resources Management Research & Application Center) and also acted for 8 years as the Head of the Water Resources Division of the Civil Engineering Department of DEU Engineering Faculty. She is a Life Long Fellow of IAH (Indian Association of Hydrologists).

[July 2015]

EWRA General Assembly 2015

June 10, 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Cevahir Hotel

EWRA 2017 - Athens, Greece

The General Assembly (GA) of EWRA was held at Grand Cevahir Hotel – Istanbul on the 10th of June 2015, during the 9th World Congress of EWRA.

A short description of the activities of the GA and the main decisions according to the agenda of the GA are as follows:

1. Account of activities

The president Prof. G. Tsakiris gave a short account of the EWRA activities during the period 2013-2015. Among others, he presented the successful launching of the new journal ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES. The vice-president Prof. R. Maia presented the outcomes of the Porto Conference. The Secretary General Prof. A. Cancelliere paid a tribute to the late Prof. Alfonso Sutera who passed away in 2013.

2. Status of European Waters

Prof. G. Tsakiris presented the first account of the implementation of the WFD and its daughter directives by the EU member states in 2015.

3. New organisational steps of EWRA

It was decided to establish, within this year, the Board of Management of the Association, in which all the countries can be represented by one member and a deputy each (see separate announcement).

4. EWRA Congresses 2017 and 2019

The members of the GA unanimously decided that the next (10th) World Congress of EWRA will be held in Athens – Greece in June/July 2017. For the venue of the 11th World Congress there were two proposals, Madrid and Warsaw. The GA decided to leave the decision to the EC and finalise the decision in the 2017 GA.

5. Honouring distinguished members of EWRA

Three distinguished members of EWRA were honoured. Namely:

• Mehmetçik BAYAZIT (Emeritus Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

• Janusz KINDLER (Emeritus Professor, Politechnika Warszawska, Institute of Environmental Engineering Systems, Warsaw, Poland)

• Nilgün B. HARMANCIOĞLU (DEU SUMER, Turkey)

6. Synopsis of decisions

[July 2015]

EWRA General Assembly 2015

June 10, 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Cevahir Hotel

EWRA 2017 - Athens, Greece

The General Assembly of EWRA, held at Grand Cevahir Hotel – Istanbul, on the 10th of June 2015 unanimously decided that the 10th World Congress of EWRA will be held in Athens – Greece, in June/July, 2017.

The organisation of the Congress is assigned to the EWRA Secretariat at the National Technical University of Athens. The first announcement of the Congress will be made in September 2015.

The World Congress will be similar to the 9th Congress in structure, comprising several conferences on cutting edge topics in the scientific area of water resources and the environment.

Further, several parallel activities will be scheduled during the Congress.

[July 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

10-13 June 2015, Istanbul

The first Special Issue of ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES

Several special issues of the journals of EWRA will be published containing papers presented in the 9th World Congress. The selection is expected to be made by the end of summer.

However, the 1st Special Issue of the journal ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES is almost ready including the invited presentations made during the Congress. The Special Issue contains the papers:

   1. N. Harmancioglu and G. Tsakiris: "Editorial"
   2. M. Bayazit : "Nonstationarity of hydrological records and recent trends in trend analysis: a state-of-the-art review"
   3. K. Fedra : "River Basin Management: What Do We Really Want?"
   4. V.V. Nikolic and S.P. Simonovic : "Multi-method modeling framework for support of integrated water resources management"
   5. Ü. Öziş : "Water works of four millenia in Turkey"
   6. V.P. Singh and H.J. Cui : "Entropy theory for streamflow forecasting"
   7. G. Tsakiris : "The status of the European waters in 2015: a review"
   8. W.E. Walker, D.P. Loucks and G. Carr : "Social Responses to water management decisions"

Soon the above papers will appear “online first” and then the Special Issue will be published in print and electronic form.

[June 2015]

EWRA General Assembly 2015

June 10, 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Cevahir Hotel

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

The General Assembly (GA) of EWRA, held at Grand Cevahir Hotel – Istanbul on the 10th of June 2015, decided to establish, within this year, its Board of Management according to the Association’s statutes.

As known so far, all the duties of the Board of Management had been given to the Executive Committee (EC) of the Association. Recently, with the expansion of EWRA incorporating members from all countries of the world, the necessity of establishing the Board of Management is apparent.

Members of EWRA can be proposed for becoming members of the Board of Management by any member of EWRA. Self nominations are also accepted. From all nominations, by the end of the year the EC will appoint the members of the Board. Each country can be represented by one member and one deputy for a term lasting up to 4 years. Both members should be active members of EWRA with remarkable contributions to the scientific field of water resources management.

Nominations for the period 2015-2019 should be sent to the EWRA Secretariat by the end of November 2015.

[June 2015]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal

Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report 2015
The Impact Factors of 2014

On Monday 22, June 2015, the impact factors of the journals for the year 2014 were published by Thomson Reuters.

The new impact factor (2014) of our journal WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, is 2.600. This IF is the best achieved by the journal so far.

The last 4 years WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT has seen the following IF trend:

Needless to say that the impact factor is just one measure of the health of a journal.

We express our gratitude to all (contributors, reviewers, editorial board) for their valuable commitment.

[June 2015]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

10-13 June 2015, Istanbul

The Conference at a glance

The 9th World Congress of EWRA took place in Istanbul-Turkey at Grand Chevahir Hotel during the period 10-13 June 2015.

The congress is considered as a great success producing important scientific results. In the congress, 49 countries were represented. More than 600 people participated as authors or participants. From the 350 initially proposed papers for presentation, only 190 presentations were finally accepted and presented in oral or poster form.

The introductory speech of the Congress was given by Nilgun B. Harmancioglu (President of the 9th World Congress). Invited papers were presented by:

• Dogan Altinbilek (Opening Ceremony)

• Ünal Öziş Mehmetçik Bayazit
• Daniel P. Loucks
• Kurt Fedra
• Slobodan Simonovic
• Vijay Singh
• George Tsakiris (General Assembly)

The following conferences were convened:

I. Hydrological Processes and Evolving Hazards
Conveners: Antonino CANCELIERE (Univ. of Catania, Italy), Bihrat ÖNÖZ (ITU, Turkey)

II. Geo-information and Water Resources
Conveners: Athanasios LOUKAS (Univ. of Thessaly, Greece), Beyhan YEĞEN (ITU, Turkey)

III. Technological Advances in Water Distribution, Purification and Desalination
Conveners: Tiku TANYIMBOH (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK), Alper ELÇİ (DEU, Turkey)

IV. Water Pollution and Eco-systems Conservancy
Conveners: Vassilios TSIHRINTZIS (NTUA, Greece), Işık KABDAŞLI (ITU, Turkey)

V. Multicriteria Sustainability of Water Systems
Conveners: Luis GARROTE (Tech. Univ. of Madrid, Spain), Gökmen TAYFUR (IYTE, Turkey)

VI. Social, Political, Institutional and Legislative Aspects
Conveners: Rodrigo MAIA (Univ. of Porto, Portugal), Hafzullah AKSOY (ITU, Turkey)

During the Congress, the General Assembly of EWRA was conducted. The GA decided that the next Congress of EWRA will take place in Athens-Greece in June/July 2017. For the World Congress of 2019 the initial decision was left to the Executive Committee of EWRA.

During the GA, in a special ceremony, three distinguished members of EWRA were honoured, namely:

• Mehmetçik Bayazit
• Janusz Kindler
• Nilgun Harmancioglu

It was also decided to initiate the organisation of the Board of Management of EWRA (according to the statutes) with representatives from all participating countries.

A large number of papers will be shortly selected for publication in the journals of EWRA (Water Resources Management, Environmental Processes, European Water, Water Utility Journal).

[June 2015]

EWRA General Assembly 2015

10 June 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Cevahir Hotel

Announcement

The General Assembly of EWRA will be held in Grand Cevahir Hotel (Istanbul, Turkey) on the 3rd June 2015 at 17:30. In case no quorum is achieved, the General Assembly will be held in the same place and time, on the 10th June 2015.

The Agenda of the General Assembly is as follows:

  1. Account of activities

  2. Status of Waters in Europe

  3. New organisational steps of EWRA

  4. Publication schedule for the period 2015-17

  5. EWRA Congress 2019: Selection of time and venue

  6. Honouring distinguished members of EWRA

  7. Synopsis of decisions

The members of EWRA are invited to propose the venue of the EWRA World Congress in 2019. They are also invited to propose nominations of distinguished members to be honoured. Proposals should be set to the President of EWRA (water@survey.ntua.gr) before the beginning of the Congress.

[May 2015]

EUROPEAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Announcement

from the EWRA Secretariat

It is reminded to interested Scientists and Engineers who wish to become members of EWRA that registrations will be welcomed up to the end of February for the year 2014. This extension is given to facilitate more people to be registered and use their registration in EWRA membership catalogue, for the 9th WORLD CONGRESS of EWRA in Istanbul (10-13 June 2015). Registration after this date in 2015 will not be considered for the above Congress.

[January 2015]

HONORARY DISTINCTION
to the President of EWRA

Announcement

The President of EWRA Prof. G. Tsakiris was recently named Honorary Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (Hon. D. WRE) of the American Academy of the Water Resources Engineers (AWWRE), a subsidiary of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Nomination Letter
(.pdf, 91 KB)

Announcement
(.pdf, 52 KB)

[January 2015]

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
"Sustainable Solutions to Wastewater Management:
Maximizing the Impact of Territorial Co-operation"

19-21 June 2015
Kavala, Greece

Under the auspices of EWRA

http://wastenet2015.org or http://www.waste-net.info

Announcement
(.pdf, 80 KB)

[December 2014]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

10-13 June 2015, Istanbul

Announcement

The deadline for abstract submission in all the Conferences of the Congress has been extended to 30th of November 2014. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 20th of December 2014.

Detailed information on the Congress can be found at http://www.ewra2015istanbul.org.

[November 2014]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

10-13 June 2015, Istanbul

Important News

The First Announcement of EWRA2015 Istanbul Congress specified the dates of the organisation as 24-27 June 2015. In order to avoid overlapping with other events with similar character (e.g. IUGG and IAHS General Assembly and Symposia in 2015) and other holidays in Turkey, the Organising Committee of the Congress considered it necessary to change the dates of the World Congress. So, please note that the new dates of EWRA2015 Istanbul are 10-13 June, 2015 instead of 24-27 June, 2015. Currently, the website of the Congress is being updated and a new announcement will be issued shortly.

Abstract Submission Reminder

The World Congress of EWRA incorporates Six Conferences as follows:
      I. Hydrological Processes and Evolving Hazards
    II. Geo-information and Water Resources
   III. Technological Advances in Water Distribution, Purification and Desalination
    IV. Water Pollution and Eco-systems Conservancy
     V. Multicriteria Sustainability of Water Systems
    VI. Social, Political, Institutional and Legislative Aspects

Please note that the abstract submission deadline for all the Conferences is the October 31, 2014.

Detailed information on the Congress can be found at http://www.ewra2015istanbul.org.

[October 2014]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

24-27 June 2015, Istanbul

Abstract Submission Reminder

The World Congress of EWRA will be held in Istanbul (24-27 June 2015). The Congress incorporates Six Conferences as follows:
      I. Hydrological Processes and Evolving Hazards
    II. Geo-information and Water Resources
   III. Technological Advances in Water Distribution, Purification and Desalination
    IV. Water Pollution and Eco-systems Conservancy
     V. Multicriteria Sustainability of Water Systems
    VI. Social, Political, Institutional and Legislative Aspects

Please note that the abstract submission deadline for all the Conferences is the 31st of October 2014.

Detailed information on the Congress can be found at http://www.ewra2015istanbul.org.

[October 2014]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal

2013: New, higher Impact Factor for WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Late in July the impact factors of the journals for the year 2013 were announced by Thomson-Reuters. The new (3-year) impact factor of WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, the international journal of EWRA published by SPRINGER, is 2.463. This result proves the steadily upward trend of the journal and improves its position between the leading journals in the field.

The performance of the journal during the last 3 years is presented in the following table

[September 2014]

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
"Sustainable Solutions to Wastewater Management:
Maximizing the Impact of Territorial Co-operation"

19-21 June 2015
Kavala, Greece

Under the auspices of EWRA

First Announcement
(.pdf, 194 KB)

[July 2014]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

24-27 June 2015, Istanbul

Official Site: http://www.ewra2015istanbul.org

[July 2014]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

24-27 June 2015, Istanbul

Second Announcement and Call for papers

The World Congress of EWRA will be held in Istanbul (24-27 June 2015). Six Conferences are included in the programme of the Congress:
      I. Hydrological Processes and Evolving Hazards
    II. Geo-information and Water Resources
   III. Technological Advances in Water Distribution, Purification and Desalination
    IV. Water Pollution and Eco-systems Conservancy
     V. Multicriteria Sustainability of Water Systems
    VI. Social, Political, Institutional and Legislative Aspects

Please read the following announcement for detailed information on the Congress.

Announcement
(.pdf, 565 KB)

[June 2014]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES
An International Journal

Announcement

We are delighted to announce that our new EWRA official journal "Environmental Processes" has now a new site at Springer
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/environmental+science+&+engineering/journal/40710 where you can find current papers published, instructions to the authors, and the link to the Editorial Manager to submit a paper online (https://www.editorialmanager.com/enpr/).

The journal will be quarterly, and will be published both in print and in electronic format. Published papers for the next two years will be free-access through the journal site. Color printing is also for free.

[May 2014]

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
"Water Utility Support"

Athens, Greece, 5^th June 2014

Announcement

The Symposium aims at presenting innovative solutions to all real problems the Water Utility Companies face from the technological, management and administrative aspects. Please read the following announcement for further information.

Announcement
(.pdf, 199 KB)

[May 2014]

WATER UTILITY JOURNAL
"Urban water pipe networks sustainable management:
Acknowledging the value, defining the cost, setting the price of water"

Special Issue

Invitation to submit papers

Invitation to submit papers for a Special Issue of Water Utility Journal, published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), entitled “Urban water pipe networks sustainable management: Acknowledging the value, defining the cost, setting the price of water”.

Invitation
(.pdf, 220 KB)

[April 2014]

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
"Water Utility Support"

Athens, Greece, 5^th June 2014

First Announcement

The European Water Resources Association (EWRA) co-organises the International Symposium "Water Utility Support". Please read the following announcement for further information.

Announcement
(.pdf, 118 KB)

[January 2014]

New Journal by EWRA
Environmental Processes - An International Journal

Announcement - Call for papers

The journal "Environmental Processes" now receives papers. For information please download the following pdf file.

Information
(.pdf, 552 KB)

[December 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Important Announcement

Due to the request of many authors and for achieving successful Special Issues of the EWRA journals, the deadline for submission of selected papers from the Porto Conference to the journals is extended up to the 15th of December 2013.

[November 2013]

New Journal by EWRA
Environmental Processes - An International Journal

Announcement - Call for papers

On June 26, 2013, the General Assembly of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) held in Porto decided the launching of a new journal called Environmental Processes. This journal will be supported scientifically by the EWRA and will be published by Springer.

The aim of the new journal is the presentation of original and timely research results and technical papers by academic researchers and professionals outside universities and research centers, including those in consulting firms, government agencies and public interest groups, on topics concerning the various processes taking place in the natural and the anthropogenic environment. The objective is to contribute towards the improvement of the understanding of environmental processes, aiming to provide solutions to environmental problems.

Specific objectives of the journal, among others, are the presentation of:

• original monitoring data, experimental data, theoretical investigations and mathematical modeling of processes in environmental systems;

• processes related to the interactions of the water, air-atmosphere, and soil-sediment environments with the humans and the biosphere;

• environmental flow processes, hydrodynamics and hydrology;

• pollutant physical, chemical and biological processes, including pollutant sources and origin, fate, dispersion and degradation, transport, deposition and accumulation, and impacts on human health and environmental quality;

• interaction processes between the social, cultural, economic and natural environments;

• evaluation of currently applied and new proposed technologies for protection of the environment;

• testing of currently used and new proposed monitoring, instrumentation and analysis techniques related to the environmental processes.

• educational, regulatory, and research needs on environmental processes and protection.

Main subjects of the journal include but are not limited to processes in:

• Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydrodynamics
• Water Resources Engineering and Management, Hydrology, Surface Water, Erosion and Sediment Transport, Groundwater
• Non-point Source Pollution, Urbanization, Agriculture, Best Management Practices
• Water Quality and Health of Aquatic Systems, Fate and Transport of Pollutants
• Ecosystem Management, Protection and Restoration - Ecohydraulics, Ecohydrology
• Protection and Restoration of the Coastal Environment
• Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention, Process Modification for Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency, Recycling and Reuse of Wastes and Wastewater
• Management and Treatment of Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Wastes, Municipal, Industrial
• Ecological Engineering - Natural Wastewater and Sludge Treatment Systems, Constructed Wetlands, Stabilization Ponds
• Environmental Geotechnology, Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Bioremediation
• Management of Toxic and Hazardous Substances
• Atmospheric Pollution and Control Technology
• Impacts of Global Environmental/Climatic Changes
• Energy, Buildings and the Environment
• Analysis and Forecasting of Natural Hazards - Environmental Risk Management
• Sustainable Development - Environmental/Ecological Economics
• Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis
• Ecosystem Services, Life Cycle Assessment
• Public/Environmental Health - Industrial/Occupational Hygiene - Indoor Air Pollution
• Remote Sensing - Photogrammetric and Satellite Systems - Earth Observation Systems
• Geographical Information Systems - Environmental Applications
• Mathematical and Numerical Modeling, Systems Analysis, Operations Research, Decision Making – Environmental Applications
• Environmental Legislation and Policy, Environmental Regulation
• Environmental Education

The readership of the journal includes: Environmental engineers, environmental scientists, civil engineers, water engineers, hydraulic engineers, hydrologists, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, agricultural engineers, rural and surveying engineers, geoinformatic engineers, geographers, geologists, biogeochemists, geophysicists, earth scientists, geomorphologists, analytical chemists, environmental chemists, climatologists, soil scientists, oceanographers, limnologists, landscape ecologists, ecologists, biologists, fishery scientists, forest scientists, epidemiologists, toxicologists, pharmacologists, environmental economists, social scientists, environmental lawyers, and computer and information scientists, holding positions as academic professors and researchers, practicing engineers and environmental professionals, managers, decision makers, public regulatory agency officials, water company officials, public health officials and policy makers, infrastructure owner/operators, risk managers, public interest groups, NGOs.

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Professor of Ecological Engineering and Technology Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management School of Rural and Surveying Engineering NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Address: 9 Iroon Polytechniou St., Zografou 157 73 Athens, Greece Phone: +30-210-772.2620 (Office), +30-210-772.2700 (Lab), Fax: +30-210-772.2632, Mobile: +30-6974-993867 E-mail: tsihrin@otenet.gr; tsihrin@central.ntua.gr; tsihrin@survey.ntua.gr

Associate Editors:

1. Prof. Biljana Skrbic Department of Technology UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD Serbia E-mail: biljana@tf.uns.ac.rs

2. Ass. Prof. Yunping Xu College of Urban & Environmental Science PEKING UNIVERSITY Beijing, 100871, China Tel: 86-10-62752091 (o) /86-13124737414 (m) Fax: 86-10-62754411 Email: yunpingxu@pku.edu.cn

3. Assoc. Prof. Shonali Laha Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY University Park, Miami, FL, USA Tel. (305) 348-1092 E-mail: lahas@fiu.edu

4. Prof. George Tsakiris Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards (CANaH) School of Rural and Surveying Engineering NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS 157 73 Zografou, Athens, Greece Tel. +30 210-772.2631 E-mail: gtsakir@central.ntua.gr; gtsakir@hotmail.gr

Time of the 1st issue: Spring 2014 Frequency: 4 issues per year Paper Submission: Papers describing original research should be submitted by e-mail directly to the Editor-in-Chief (tsihrin@otenet.gr) or to the following address: envproc@ewra.net. Paper preparation should follow the Guide for authors of Water Resources Management journal (http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/hydrogeology/journal/11269).

[October 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Announcement

The selection of papers to be processed for publication in the journals of EWRA was completed. 104 papers were selected, 33 for the journal of Water Resources Management, 33 for the journal European Water, 20 for the Water Utility journal and 18 for the journal of Environmental Processes. Authors of the selected papers are invited to submit their papers according to the guidelines of the corresponding journal. Slight amendments or additions in the text are accepted as long as they remain minimal. The deadline for submission is 15th of November.

Please search the corresponding list of "selected papers" or refer to the website of the Conference.

Note: The guidelines of Environmental Processes are similar to Water Resources Management.

[October 2013]

9th WORLD CONGRESS OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities"

24-27 June 2015, Istanbul

First Announcement and Call for papers
 

The 9^th WORLD CONGRESS of the European Water Resources Association will be held in Istanbul (Turkey), 24-27 June 2015.

The Conference has the title “Water Resources Management in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities” and will host 6 parallel Conferences.

[October 2013]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal

A closer look on WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT performance

During the last week of June Thomson-Reuter presented the new Impact factors for all the scientific journals for 2012. As known, the main journal of EWRA, achieved a higher impact factor reaching IF (2012): 2.259 form the IF (2011): 2.054. This is an increase of about 10% in one year.

As known, the journal has IF higher than 2 for the last 4 consecutive years. This places WARM within the top-10 journals (according to the IF) in the area of Water Resources from nearly 100 journals. Similarly, the journal is among the journals in many other categories. It is estimated that the journal belongs to Q1 class in a wide range of categories.

However, if we have a closer look at the performance of the journal, we can conclude that the journal is performing much better than the IF increase of last year shows. Here are some points, which support this opinion.

a) For the period 2008-2012, the number of cites increased from 701 (2008) to 3076 in 2012, a 5-year increase of 338%.

b) For the same period, the IF increased from 1.350 (2008) to 2.259 in 2012, which is a 5-year increase of 67%.

c) This performance is observed, although the number of papers published in the journal are increasing steadily from 2008 to 2012. That is, from 112 (2008) we published 245 in 2012. By establishing the number of articles and assuming the same performance trend during the next years, an additional increase of the IF will be expected

[July 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

Minutes

The Minutes of the General Assembly (GA) of EWRA are now available on line at the "Minutes" section of this web site.

[July 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Honouring Prof. Luis Santos Pereira

Speech by Prof. G. Tsakiris

It is a privilege for me to express my respect and admiration for Prof. Luis Santos Pereira for his achievements for promoting new ways of thinking in some crucial areas of water resources management and in particular in the area of agricultural water management.

I have the feeling that Prof. Pereira, apart from his achievements with widespread effect, is virtually everywhere; in Conferences, in Symposia, in Seminars, in any kind of meetings. He is writing papers, books, reports, conference speeches, he is advising organizations, universities, supervises PhDs etc.

At the same time he is married, having a happy family with children and grandchildren.

I just wonder how he spends a working day!

Always he responds to any query promptly. He is "young" in his response with innovative fresh ideas from the 80Â’s up to now.

They say that when honouring somebody you can use superlatives – But superlatives without explanation and documentation are just hot air.

In the case of Prof. Pereira the documentation is his personality and the devoted participation in everything he does, whenever he participates.

In few minutes I will read you a summary of his CV. But before this I would like to just mention that he is always with young people, writing papers with them and giving them the opportunity to go higher. His cooperation has no limits, no red lines, nothing, just the work.

Now allow me something personal: I have met Luis in many meetings in the past and I confess I like to quarrel with him so that he becomes slightly excited and he makes a real sincere effort to support his views.

In some cases I do not agree with what he is supporting but I always liked him to get serious and persuasive.

Sometimes he forgets. For instance, he has written a preface in a book of mine some 7 years ago. When the book was published I sent him a copy. Then he argued that he never received a copy.

A couple of years ago we met in Catania and he started complaining that he never received a copy of the book. Then I sent him another copy. Today I asked him whether he received the copy and he persuaded me again that up to now he has not received the second copy. Well, I will send him another copy!

Let me now pin-point some of his important moments of his career. He was born in Elvas Portugal and graduated as Agricultural Engineer from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1969. He did his postgraduate studies in Switzerland (Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1972) and PhD (Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1977). Professor in Agricultural and Biosystems Eng., Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon during the period (1990 – 2012). He is supervisor (or co-supervisor) of 31 Doctor Theses, and 53 MSc Theses. He has been Director – general for Hydraulics and Agricultural Engineering in the Ministry of Agriculture of Portugal (1977 – 1980) and consultant with various UN Agencies (FAO, UNDP, WMO, UNESCO, IAM-Bari, ICARDA).

He is recipient of many awards and recognitions from several institutions in USA, Italy, China, India etc.

He is an active member of the European Water Resources Association participating in almost all its conferences and symposia and writing articles for the journal of “Water Resources Management”.

He is author (or co-author) of about 180 journal papers, 120 book chapters, 160 conference proceedings and numerous speeches in scientific meetings.

His benchmark contributions to the water and agricultural sector are:
(a) The “Crop Evapotranspiration” described in the book “Crop evapotranspiration – Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements (FAO, 1988) (Authors: Allen, Pereira, Rae, Smith). It should be mentioned that this book is quoted more than 1000 times a year.
(b) The “Modelling of soil water balance” presented in the models ISAREG and SIMDualKc. These models are used operationally in several countries.
(c) The rational approach to cope with water scarcity and droughts described in the book “Coping with Water Scarcity – Addressing the Challenges (Authors: Pereira, Cordery, Iacovides).

Dear Luis
I had the privilege to express my gratitude for all your contributions to the water resources management society and for the Guidance to the new generation of scientists and engineers working in the field. On behalf of the European Water Resources Association I thank you for all you have done!

[July 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Honoured Personalities

During the General Assembly of EWRA in Porto on the 26th of June 2013 two distinguished members of EWRA, Prof. E. Vlachs and Prof. L.S. Pereira, were honoured for their outstanding contributions to the broad field of Water Resources Management.

Evan C. Vlachos

Evan Vlachos joined CSU in the fall of 1967. From law (LLB University of Athens), general sociology (Ph.D. Indiana University), he progressed to interdisciplinary studies, especially in integrated water resources planning and management, technology assessment, and, social forecasting. During his years with the Department of Sociology and with a joint appointment with Civil Engineering he introduced 15 new courses concentrating in the areas of population studies, methods and technology assessment and futurism. He also directed over 35 Dissertations and Theses in Sociology and was co-director or key member to over 200 Dissertations and Theses in Civil Engineering. He has consistently received the top ratings in teaching evaluations and introduced and taught for 2 years the Special Seminar on "Citizenship and the Future". In terms of Scholarly output he has produced 10 books, 63 articles/chapters in books, 20 book reviews and essays, 42 monographs and technical reports, and over 130 (mostly invited) papers for professional meetings. He has also served in the editorial boards of such scholarly journals as the Social Sciences Journal, Water International, and Water Policy.

Between 1979-1984, Dr. Vlachos served as Director of the Environmental Resources Center and from 1985 on, as Associate Director of the International School for Water Resources. He has served as Member and Chairman of the Environmental Advisory Board, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1982-1987. Between 1993 and 2000 he also served as member and chairman of the Advisory Panel on Environmental and Earth S&T in NATO, Brussels (Eastern Europe and Russia). He has been member of UNESCO's Committee on "Water and Civilization" and "Urban Studies" and a member of committees of the European Commission's environmental section in Brussels. He has also been for many years a member of the Environmental Committee of the Luso-American Foundation for Development in Lisbon and a regular organizer and lecturer of their annual course on "Global Environmental Issues". A special interactive activity in this period has been invitation to act as evaluator (in a team) of the graduate water resources programs for the following Greek Universities: National Technical University of Athens, University of the Aegean, Agricultural University of Athens, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Throughout these 41 years at CSU there was also involvement with consulting both in the U.S. and abroad, especially with larger public projects in the Western U.S., Italy, Greece, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sweden, and Brazil. Involvement included also consulting firms such as Design Studios West, regarding city master plans in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Phoenix, Arizona, the Governors committee on planning for The Front Range urban corridor in Colorado, as well as Athens' and Greece's urban planning. Finally, he has also participated in a larger number of seminars and training courses with a variety of Federal agencies, foreign governmental units and international organizations such as the United Nations, European Commission and NATO, where he also served as chair of the Evaluation Studies Committee. In 2008 he was instrumental in bringing into the campus ICIWaRM, a joint project of U.S. Universities, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and UNESCO. He is acting Director of the CSU lab.

Essentially, past activities concentrated on interdisciplinary teaching, research, service, and consulting; on providing linkages between theory and practice; on expanding international commitment and comparative case studies; and, on sharing also findings and insights with wider audiences outside the University.

As far as national and international funded research are concerned, exemplary of his work include major projects as, New Towns Project (HUD); Guidelines for evaluating environmental impact assessment of the Venice Lagoon (Italy); Environmental Design and Public Projects (NSF); Water Resources Planning in Southern Portugal (Portuguese Dept. of Natural Resources); Climate and Water Resources (NATO); Managing Droughts (NSF); Integrated Water Resources Assessment and Management (Brazil); Transboundary Water problems (Ford Foundation); Cumulative impacts of energy development (USDI); Water Conflicts in the Middle East (Corps of Engineers); Coastal Zone Management (European Commission); Water in International Affairs (OTI); Comprehensive Planning, cities of Pueblo, Fort Collins and Estes Park; Urban Water Conflicts (UNESCO); Condition and Security Indicators for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems (NSF); and, smaller grants from the Social Sciences Research Center, AID, McArthur Foundation, Dept. of Transportation, Office of Water Resources Research, USDA and the Tinker Foundation. In addition, there were also a series of consultancies with relevant Ministries and Agencies in Portugal, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Brazil, Thailand, Bangladesh, Egypt and others.

Finally, among a number of awards and recognitions, are a Fulbright Grant, the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers Medal of Outstanding Civilian Service Award, the CSU Oliver Pennock Distinguished Service Award, the American Water Resources Association's Icko Iben Award (for exemplary interdisciplinary work), the Outstanding APA Colorado Planning Award, and the CSU Office of International Programs Distinguished Service Award. In 2011 Evan Vlachos received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Luís Santos Pereira

Born in Elvas, Portugal, August 13, 1942; married, father of four and grandfather of ten. Agricultural Engineer, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1969. Post-graduate in Hydrology, Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1972. PhD, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1977.

Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, 1980-2012. Head, CEER, Biosystems Engineering Research Centre, 1993-2012. Is currently coordinator of a PhD programme on Biosystems Engineering; supervisor or co-supervisor of 31 Doctor Theses (7 more in progress) and 53 MSc. theses. He has been Director General for Hydraulics and Agricultural Engineering, Ministry of Agriculture, Lisbon (1977-80) and consultant with various UN Agencies - FAO, UNDP, WMO, and UNESCO -, IAM-Bari, Italy, and ICARDA, Aleppo.

Invited Professor at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy, at the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, and for specialization and postgraduate studies at the China Agricultural University and the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Power Research, Beijing, as well as research advisor of the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria.

Awards and Recognitions
Doctor honoris causa, University of Rousse, Bulgaria, 2005.
Is Hon. President of International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR), and Hon.Vice-President of the International Commission of Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).
Member, Portuguese Academy of Engineering, and Foreign Correspondent Member of the "Accademia dei Georgofili", Firenze, Italy, the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, and the Académie d’Agriculture de France. Fellow member, National Institution of Engineers. Recipient of awards and recognitions from ICID and CIGR and from several institutions in USA, Italy, China, India, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico, Libya, Bulgaria and Portugal.

Research
- Has been leader of CEER, Biosystems Engineering Research Centre, Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, of numerous projects in Portugal and in cooperation of institutions of various countries. Particularly relevant the leadership of international research projects, namely on water management relative to the North China Plain, the Yellow River Basin, the Aral Sea basin and Latin American countries.
- Convenor/co-convenor of numerous international scientific conferences and workshops, in particular a series of Workshops on "Crop Water and Environment Models", a series of Inter-regional Conferences on "Water and the Environment", and a series of Workshops and Training Courses for Latin America. Is presently convening a new series of Inter-regional Conferences on "Land and Water Challenges".
- Member of international research evaluation panels with the European Commission, the CNR of Italy, the Ministry of Science of Spain and CYTED, and for reviewing academic activities with the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the Agricultural Research Centers of CSIC, Spain, and the ICARDA, Aleppo. Is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.
- Is author or co-author of a large number of papers in journals (180), book chapters (102) and conference proceedings (160) as well as numerous speeches to scientific meetings. Is author/co-author or editor of 34 books.

Benchmark contributions/achievements refer to
a) Crop evapotranspiration, following the Guidelines book on Crop Evapotranspiration. Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements, authored by RG Allen, LS Pereira, D Raes, and M Smith, published by FAO in 1998 as Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, which is translated into Spanish and Russian. This book is quoted more than 1000 times a year and related concepts and operational procedures are worldwide adopted. b) Modelling the soil water balance, first using the single crop coefficient approach in the ISAREG model, recently with the SIMDualKc model adopting the dual crop coefficient approach. These models are used both operationally and for research by various institutions in several countries.
c) Water Scarcity and Droughts, referring to atentative of rational approach to cope with water scarcity and droughts, which are the object of a book on Coping with Water Scarcity. Addressing the Challenges, co-authored by LS Pereira, I Cordery and I Iacovides, published in 2009 by the Springer. A first version has been published by UNESCO in 2002. Numerous papers on drought studies in Portugal and Iran have been published namely in the EWRA journal Water Resources Management.

[July 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

The Conference at a glance

The 8th International Conference of EWRA took place in Porto-Portugal during the period 26-29 June 2013.

The conference is considered undoubtedly as a great success producing important scientific results.

In the conference more than 600 people participated as authors or participants from more than 30 countries. About 250 active participants took part in the activities of the conference.

From the 320 initially proposed papers for presentation only 151 presentations were finally accepted and presented in oral or poster form.

Four invited speeches were delivered by well known scientists whereas a round table discussion was organized at the end of the conference focusing on future research directions in Europe.

During the Conference the General Assembly of EWRA was conducted. The GA decided that the next Congress of EWRA will take place in Istanbul-Turkey in June 2015. Also a new executive Committee of EWRA was elected.

Finally a technical visit to Frades Power Station took place in Saturday 29 June.

[July 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

New Executive Committee of EWRA 2014-2017

During the General Assembly of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) in Porto on the 26th of June 2013 the following officers were elected:

     President :                        G. Tsakiris         (Greece - Nat. Technical Univ. of Athens)

     Vice President :                  R. Maia              (Portugal - Univ. of Porto)

     Secretary General :             A. Cancelliere     (Italy - Univ. of Catania)

     Treasurer :                        N. Harmancioglu  (Turkey - Univ. of Izmir)

     Inter. Relations :                L. Garrote          (Spain - Technical Univ. of Madrid)

[July 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

Venue of the Next Congress of EWRA: ISTANBUL

The General Assembly of EWRA which took place in Porto-Portugal on the 26th of June 2013 decided to organize the next Congress of EWRA in Istanbul-Turkey in June 2015.

The first announcement of the Congress will be circulated in Autumn 2013.

[July 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Opening Speech of the President

Opening Speech
(.pdf, 11 KB)

[July 2013]

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
An International Journal

The 2012 Impact Factor

Some days ago the new Impact Factor (2012) for scientific journals were announced by Thomson-Reuters.

The journal of EWRA, the WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT achieved its highest impact factor so far 2.259 with total number of cites 3076.

Therefore, its IF was increased from 2.054 (2011) to 2.259 (2012) that is an increase of 10%, in one year. The total number of cites was increased from 2305 (in 2011) to 3076 (in 2012) that is an increase of 33% in one year.

[July 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Announcement

The EWRA Executive Committee plans to honour two distinguished Professors, active members of EWRA, Evan Vlachos and Luis S. Pereira, for their outstanding contributions in the field of Water Resources Management.

The ceremony will take place within the General Assembly of EWRA during the Conference in Porto on the 26th of June 2013 (afternoon).

All participants of the Conference are invited to attend this ceremony and participate in the GA of EWRA.

[June 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Field Trip on Saturday 29th June 2013

The participants of the EWRA Conference in Porto are informed that on Saturday 29th of June 2013 a Field Trip will be organised to Frades Power Station. Details on the Field Trip are available at the web site of the Conference.

Participants are advised to book this trip at the registration desk during the Conference. Additional information can be requested at the registration desk.

[June 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

Announcement

The EWRA General Assembly (GA) planned to take place in Porto on the 26th of June 2013 is the second, since the GA in Porto one week earlier could not gather the 1/5 of its members.

Therefore the GA of the 26th of June 2013 is the second GA - in respect to Article 13.3 of Statutes, and may decide legally irrespective of the number of members present.

[June 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Tentative Daily Conference Programme

A tentative daily schedule of the oral presentations is now available at the "Programme" section of Conference web site (http://www.ewra2013.ewra.net).

Please note that this programme is not final and it will be updated if necessary.

[June 2013]

EWRA General Assembly

Porto, Portugal, 26^th June 2013

Agenda

1. General Introduction.

2. Honour to Prof. Evan Vlachos and Prof. Luis Santos Pereira

3. Proposal for a new EWRA structure

4. Amendments to the Statutes

5. New EWRA activities

6. Selection of the next Congress venue

7. Elections for the members of the EC

8. GA Closure

[June 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

Announcement

During the General Assembly (GA) of EWRA in Porto on 26^th of June 2013, elections for all the posts of the Executive Committee will be held.

Nominations for the President, Vice-President, Secretary general, Treasurer and Membership Coordinator are accepted by any member of EWRA up to the beginning of the GA on the 26th of June 2013.

The nominations should be sent to the EWRA Secretariat (ewra@ewra.net). Proposers should request for a confirmation.

[June 2013]

EWRA General Assembly – Porto 26 June 2013

Announcement

During the General Assembly (GA) of EWRA in Porto on 26^th of June 2013, the selection of the venue of the next Congress will take place.

Documented proposals should be submitted to the EWRA Secretariat (ewra@ewra.net) up to the beginning of the GA on the 26th of June 2013.

[June 2013]

EWRA news
The Bulletin of the European Water Resources Association

Issue 2012/2

The new issue of the bulletin of the European Water Resources Association "EWRA news" is now available on line.

EWRA news [2012/2]
(.pdf, 473 KB)

[May 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

New deadline for full paper submission

The period for full paper submission (oral or poster) is extended up to the 5th of April 2013 instead of the 21st of March 2013. The full papers should comply fully with the guidelines and rules included in the previous announcements.

All full papers will be scrutinised for final acceptance for presentation in the Conference. All papers (oral or poster) will be equally processed for possible publication in one of the journals of EWRA.

Option for poster papers

In case the authors of a paper, which was accepted for POSTER presentation during the abstract selection phase, do not wish to submit a full paper and comply with the requirements of publication in the journals of EWRA (e.g. copyright etc.), they may choose the following option: They submit an extended abstract of 1 to 3 pages instead of a full paper, which will be included in the Proceedings of the Conference. This extended abstract will not be considered for possible journal publication. The deadline for this type of submission is 5th of April 2013.

[March 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Full paper submission

Deadline for full paper submissions: 21st of March 2013.

Guidelines for submitting a full paper are now available at the "Submissions" section of the web site of the Conference.

[January 2013]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Abstract Submission

Deadline for abstract submissions: 30th of November 2012 21st of December 2012.

Date of final acceptance of abstracts: 15th of January 2013.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically in one of the addresses:

ewra2013@fe.up.pt or ewra2013@ewra.net.

The abstracts should be written following the template for abstracts submission.

Announcement
(.pdf, 519 KB)

[December 2012]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

[September 2012]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Abstract Submission

Deadline for abstract submissions: 30th of November 2012.

Date of final acceptance of abstracts: 15th of January 2013.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically in one of the addresses:

ewra2013@fe.up.pt or ewra2013@ewra.net.

The abstracts should be written following the template for abstracts submission.

[September 2012]

"WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT" JOURNAL

The Impact Factor for WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

The impact factors of the journals for 2011 were released by Thomson-Reuters in July 2012.

The journal of WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT achieved an impact factor of 2.054 consolidating its position among the lead journals in the field of Water Resources.

It is the third consecutive year in which the IF of the journal remains above 2.

It is interesting to note that the impact of the journal is steadily increasing as it is observed from the total number of cites which were increased from 1818 in 2010 to 2305 in 2011.

[July 2012]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

Porto, Portugal, 26^th-29^th June 2013

Second Announcement and Call for papers
 

INTRODUCTION

In Europe, the last decade has been of great change and adaptation in water policy and management. Following the work and progress achieved in the 7th International Conference held in Limassol (2009) and the VI International Symposium of EWRA, held in Catania (2011), on “Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment”, it is a good opportunity to evaluate the current status of the work achieved by the EU Member States related to the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation, having in mind the 2015 deadline. On the other hand, the Floods Directive, published in 2007, is also a current concern of the Member States that are required to draw up flood risk maps by 2013 and establish flood risk management plans by 2015.

In parallel, it is also important to highlight and acknowledge the process on water infrastructures and technologies, facing the changing context and the increasing challenges created by climate change and other new paradigms taking place in water resources management. More specifically, according to WFD requirements, the second cycle of River Basin Management Plans cycle will have to include climate change effects.

In this context, the 8th International Conference of European Water Resources Association (EWRA) will give special emphasis to the application of the WFD, emphasising the challenges encountered and foreseen by the different Member States and more specifically the challenges raised by the transboundary river basins which represent more than 60% of the European territory.

The 8th International Conference of EWRA intends to be a platform of discussion and sharing of information and experiences between scientists and professionals from the Member States but also from other regions around the globe facing new challenges related to water resources management. More than an analysis of what has to be done, Member States need to share their know-how and enhance their capacity building related to the implementation of a common legislation at the European level.

Abstracts can be submitted in the three sections of the Conference proposed hereafter. The first section is devoted to the current state of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the lessons learned, the second section will deal with innovative methodologies in water resources management and policies. Finally, the third section will deal with several specific topics, which are at the cutting edge of future innovations in this scientific area.

SECTIONS AND TOPICS

Section 1: “Water Framework Directive – implementation status and lessons learned”

- Lessons learned from WFD application

- Organisational and Public Participation issues

- Transboundary river basins

- Incorporation of climate change effects and adaptation in WFD implementation

Section 2: “Water resources management”

- Adaptive IWRM and new paradigms

- Floods Directive and applications

- Droughts and Water Scarcity

- Water Quality

Section 3: “Water related specific topics”

- Water and Energy

- Water loss management

- Eco-efficiency (Life cycle assessment)

- Risk management oriented approach

- Optimal vs. Rational decision making

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

- Rodrigo Maia (President)

- Ana Iglesias

- António Guerreiro de Brito

- Abilio Seca Teixeira

- Jose Tentugal Valente

- João Pedro Pêgo

- George Tsakiris

- Bambos Charalambous

- Stuart Hamilton

IMPORTANT DATES

- Deadline for submission of abstracts:    30 November 2012

- Notification of acceptance:                   15 January 2013

- Deadline for submission of full papers:  15 March 2013

- Acceptance of full papers:                   30 April 2013

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

- Abstracts for oral or poster papers could be submitted to ewra2013@fe.up.pt

- The abstracts should include title, the names of the authors, their full affiliation and their proposal for the type of presentation (oral or poster). The length of the text should be between 200 and 250 words.

LOCAL SECRETARIAT

Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto

Department of Civil Engineering

Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Division

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s.n.

4200-465 Porto - Portugal
 

Contact Person: Cristina Silva

Telef.: (+351) 225 081 957, e-mail: ewra2013@fe.up.pt

USEFUL INFORMATION

Language: The Official language of the Symposium is English

Venue: Porto, Portugal

Dates: June 26th – June 29th 2013

Types of presentations: Oral or Poster presentations will be accepted

Further information: Information concerning details on the Conference (e.g. accommodation, specific sessions, guidelines for writing the papers, excursions etc.) will be announced by June 2012.

[April 2012]

Forth-Coming Events
Conferences supported by EWRA

Announcement

The European Water Resources Association (EWRA) supports the following Conferences:

5th International Conference: "Water Loss Reduction in Water Supply Systems"
          Sofia - Bulgaria, 19-20 November 2012
          Bulgarian Water Association (BWA)
          http://www.bwa-bg.com

Call for papers and general information
(.pdf, 234 KB)

REGIONAL WATER FORUM, 14th edition of complex of events
          Bucharest - Romania, 11-13 June 2012
          Romanian Water Association (ARA)
          http://www.araexpoapa.ro

Invitation
(.pdf, 111 KB)

[April 2012]

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EWRA
"Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context"

26-29 June 2013, Porto - Portugal
 

The 8^th International Conference of the European Water Resources Association will be held in Porto (Porugal), 26-29 June 2013.

The Conference has the title “Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context”.

The host of the Conference will be the University of Porto and the Conference Coordinator will be Prof. Rodrigo Maia, Vice President of EWRA.

[December 2011]

Forth-Coming Events
Conferences supported by EWRA

Announcement

The European Water Resources Association (EWRA) supports the following Conferences:

1st Middle East Water Leakage Summit 2011
          Dubai - UAE, 23 November 2011
          http://www.h2ome.net/leakagesummit/

Water Loss Europe 2012
          Ferrara - Italy, 23-25 May 2012
          IWA Water Loss Specialist Group
          http://www.waterlosseurope.com/

4th International Conference: "Water Loss Reduction in Water Supply Systems"
          Sofia - Bulgaria, 14-15 November 2011
          Bulgarian Water Association (BWA)
          http://www.bwa-bg.com

Call for papers and general information
(.pdf, 99 KB)

[September 2011]

VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM of EWRA
‘Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment’
(Catania, Sicily, 29 June – 2 July 2011)

Press Release

The 6th International Symposium of the European Water Resources Association took place in Catania – Sicily from 29th of June to 2nd of July. The host of the Symposium and local organiser was the University of Catania and the venue was Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante (Faculty of Arts). Co-organisers of the Symposium were the Italian Hydrotechnical Association and the CSEI Catania (Centre for the Applied Economics in Engineering). About 150 papers were submitted and presented in oral and poster sessions as well as in five invited lectures ...

Press Release
(.pdf, 29 KB)

[July 2011]

VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM of EWRA
‘Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment’
(Catania, Sicily, 29 June – 2 July 2011)

Opening Speech of the President of EWRA Prof. G. Tsakiris

Dear representatives of Sicilian Authorities, Dear distinguished guests, Dear colleagues,

This is probably my 10th visit to Sicily and Catania. Although I noticed several changes around even from my last visit three years ago, I confess that I feel the same warm hospitality of this Mediterranean island which I felt in my first visit in early 80s in the framework of a collaborative research project. My experience in this first visit is for me unforgettable, since straight from the airport we were transported in a huge garden of a village (probably Aceriale) in a fantastic, full of life party of local people singing in joy with the women offering all sorts of delicious pizzas for the whole day. Please forgive me for this personal comment which I could not avoid being back in this hospitable place. Now I am here as the President of the European Water Resources Association in our 6th International Symposium, the first held in Italy.

The global endorsement of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is mainly concerned with the achievement of global water security. This practically means that the desired outcome of IWRM is to secure that all people have access to sufficient safe water for their needs at affordable cost, provided that at the same time the natural environment and its resources are protected and enhanced ...

Opening Speech
(.pdf, 28 KB)

[July 2011]

GENERAL ASSEMBLY of EWRA
Catania - Sicily
June 30th, 2011

Brief report / Minutes

President: I welcome you all in the General Assembly of EWRA here in Catania. There are several topics which we will discuss in this session. However, because time is restricted I would ask you to be brief and up to the point so that we convene this important session of our Association in an effective way. The General Assembly takes place together with the Board of Management of the Association. In fact the Board of Management is inactive after the amendment to the statutes done 6 years ago ...

Minutes
(.pdf, 41 KB)

[July 2011]

VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM of EWRA
‘Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment’
(Catania, Sicily, 29 June – 2 July 2011)

Closing Ceremony: Closure Speech of the President of EWRA Prof. G. Tsakiris

Dear colleagues, Dear friends,

This is the end of the 6th International Symposium held in Catania. I am really glad for the excellent organisation and the high quality of presentations. We, the Executive Committee, will make systematic efforts to disseminate the conclusions and the findings of the Symposium through our media so that a more profound impact of the Symposium will be achieved ...

Closure Speech
(.pdf, 25 KB)

[July 2011]

"WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT" JOURNAL

New Impact Factor for WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

As members of the European Water Resources Association we are sure you are interested to hear that the Journal Citation Reports ® 2010 have just been released by Thomson Reuters.

The 2010 Impact factor of our journal WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT is 2.201.

For the last three years WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT has seen the following development:
 

Now WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT is the 6th journal (with regard to Impact Factor) in water resources among the leading journals in the field. Last year it was 8th.

European Water Resources Association would like to take this opportunity to thank all authors and reviewers of the journal for their contribution to the success of the journal.

[July 2011]

VI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM of EWRA
‘Water Engineering and Management in a Changing Environment’
(Catania, Sicily, 29 June – 2 July 2011)

Announcement
 

http://www.ewra2011.dica.unict.it/

Brochure
(.pdf, 132 KB)

[February 2011]

PERMANENT WORKING GROUPS

Launching Announcement

The European Water Resources Association (EWRA) announces the establishment of "Permanent Working Groups".

Announcement
(.pdf, 39 KB)

[September 2010]

WATER UTILITY JOURNAL

Launching Announcement

The European Water Resources Association (EWRA) announces the launching of the new "Water Utility Journal".

Announcement
(.pdf, 39 KB)

[September 2010]

EWRA news
The Bulletin of the European Water Resources Association

Issue 2010/1

The new issue of the bulletin of the European Water Resources Association "EWRA news" is now available on line.

EWRA news [2010/1]
(.pdf, 362 KB)

[April 2010]

AthensPlus - Issue of the Week
WATER SECURITY MUST BE ON THE COPENHAGEN AGENDA

by Prof. G. Tsakiris
President of EWRA

ATHENSPLUS, December 11, 2009

Read the article
(.pdf, 631 KB)

[December 2009]

MOST CITED EWRA PAPERS FOR 2007 AND 2008
Post Conference Activity

2007