Topics of the Conference:
Include but are not limited to Water Resource Management, Climate Change, Water Supply Protection, Sustainable Urban Drainage, Pollution Sources & Controls, Monitoring and Modelling.

• River basin management planning under the EU Water Framework Directive;
• River basin management practices in different continents;
• Managing water resources in transboundary river basins with conflicting demand;
• Managing competing uses to protect water quality and quantity;
• Watershed management methods to facilitate water availability for aquatic ecosystem health and human uses;
• Interconnecting sub-watersheds to achieve basin goals;
• Hierarchal approaches to river basin management.
• Monitoring, ecological classification in EU countries and intercalibration;
• State-of-the-art in assessing water and biological quality and integrating data.;
• Programme of measures and ecological state.
• River basin management, advanced computation and decision support;
• The impact of climate change on watersheds, river basins, estuaries and reservoirs;
• Flood control and prevention.
• Effective methods to involve stakeholders and the public into the river basin management planning processes;
• Conflicts and multi-objective management – is it mostly methodology?
• Economics of River Basin Management.