Singapore International Water Week 2009
Water Convention
WATER CONVENTION
2009
List of Confirmed Speakers
(as at 22 Mar 2009)
Water Technology Solutions for Today’s Applications
Barriers and Obstacles to the Development of Improved Technology for Water
Jonathan Clement
Global Practice & Technology Leader, Black & Veatch Corporation (The Netherlands)
State of Practice: Biosolids Energy and Resource Recovery
Terry L. Johnson, Patricia Scanlan and Richard D. Kuchenrither
Global Practice & Technology Leader, Black & Veatch Corporation (United States)
Maximizing Energy Recovery from Sludge - Singapore's Perspective
Tee Guan Koh, Siwei Oon, Kee Seng Ng and Siew Wah Ng
Engineer, Water Reclamation (Plants), PUB (Singapore)
Evaluation of new strategies for the improvement of anaerobic digestion
P. Camacho, T. Li, S. Martin and P. Dauthuille
Project Engineer, Suez Environnement CIRSEE (France)
The Use of UV in Large-Scale Drinking Water Treatment
Richard H. Sakaji
Manager of Planning & Analysis for Water Quality, East Bay Municipal Utility District (United States)
Granular Activated Carbon: An Old Technology to Solve New Contamination Problems
Zaid Chowdhury, Andrea Traviglia, Garrett Westerhoff and R. Scott Summers
Vice President, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. (USA)
A New Resin Treatment Technology for Drinking Water
Gilbert Galjaard
Manager, Research Process Technology, PWN Water Company (The Netherlands)
Engineering Cost Effective & Energy Efficient MBR Systems
Cindy Wallis-Lage
Chief of Process Technology, Black & Veatch Corporation (United States)
Commissioning of the Largest Flat Sheet MBR in the World
M.S. Alhakawati, K. Al Badi, H. Al Jabri and O. Al Wahaibi
Senior Project Engineer, Haya Water (Oman)
Pilot Study of Submerged Membrane Bioreactor for Water Reclamation
Jian-Jun Qin, Maung Htun Oo, Guihe Tao, Kiran A Kekre and Tomotaka Hashimoto
Project Leader, Centre for Advanced Water Technology, PUB Consultants Pte Ltd (Singapore)
Development of MBR Systems Suitable for Multiple Purposes including the
Reconstruction of Large-Scale WWTPs
T. Hashimoto, K. Suzumura, H. Itokawa and T. Murakami
Technical Marketing Department, Asaki-Kasei Chemicals Corporation (Japan)
Trends in Wastewater Treatment
Glen Daigger
Senior Vice President, CH2M Hill (United States)
On Site Mass Balance Evaluation of the Efficiency of Conventional and Advanced
Processes for the Removal of 60 Organic Micropollutants
Martin Ruel S., Esperanza M., Choubert J.M., Coquery M. and Dauthuille P.
Suez Environnement CIRSEE (France)
Side Stream Submerged Membrane Filtration Adsorption Hybrid System (SSSMFAHS):
Pilot Scale Sutdy with Biological Treatment Effluent
Paul Smith, S. Vigneswaran and S.Sathananthan
University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Water Technology Solutions for Today’s Applications
An Energy Saving Solution for Water Reclamation - A Hybrid Process Combining BioSorption and Anaerobic Digestion
X. Lan, S. Sreerama, R. Woodling, R. Knauf, R. Wikramanayake, W. Liu and E. Jordan
Director, Process Technology of General Filtration and Microfloc Products, Siemens Water Technologies
(Singapore)
Impact of Technology on Integrated Water Supply Management in Amsterdam –
Perspective from Waternet
Roelof Kruize
Director, Waternet, City of Amsterdam Waste and Energy Company (The Netherlands)
Role of Technology - Perspective of Western Australia
Keith Cadee
General Manager, Water Technologies, Water Corporation (Australia)
A View from Hong Kong on the Importance of Technology
Lee-Tak Ma
Director, Water Supplies Department (Hong Kong)
Gibson Island Advanced Water Treatment Plant: When Size Matters - 100 ML/D
Advanced Water Treatment Plant Design on a Small Footprint
Andrew Findlay
MWH Australia (Australia)
Experience with Changi NEWater Plant in Singapore
Gerry O’Toole
Regional Director of Engineering, Black & Veatch Corporation (Singapore)
Indirect Potable Reuse on the Fast Track : Challenges and Opportunities!
Rory Morgan, Lee Foster and Larry Schimmoller
Project Technologist, CH2M Hill Pty Ltd (Australia)
Sixteen-Inch RO Operational Experience in Seawater and Water Reuse
Jon E. Johnson, Renee S. Ong, Kai-Uwe Hoehn, Peter S. Sehn and Echo Zhao
Research Specialist, Dow Water Solutions Research and Development (USA)
Advances in Seawater Desalination
Robert Huehmer, Felix Wang, Jim Lozier and Robert Bergman
Senior Technologist, CH2M Hill (USA)
Application of Membrane Distillation in Industrial Water Recycling
Zongli Xie, Tuan Duong, Manh Hoang, Derrick Ng and Brian Bolto
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering (Australia)
High Performance RO Membranes for Seawater Desalination and Wastewater
Reclamation and Their Operation Results
M. Henmi, Y. Fusaoka, H. Tomioka and M. Kurihara
Chief Researcher, Toray Industries, Inc. (Japan)
Perfector-E – A Perfect Solution for Challenging Problems
Peer Kamp
Director, Research and Development, PWN Water Company (The Netherlands)
Skyjuice Technologhy Impact on the U.N. MDG Outcomes for Safe Affordable Portable
Water
Rhett Butler
Chairman, Skyjuice Foundation Inc. (Australia)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Managing Water Infrastructure
Overview of Managing Water Infrastructure
Glen Daigger
Senior Vice President, CH2M Hill (USA)
The Role of Condition Assessment in Strategic Asset Management
Stewart Burn and David Marlow
Stream Leader, Integrated Urban Water Systems, CSIRO Land and Water (Australia)
Planning Tools for Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure
L. C. Larsen, O Larsen and L. Korsgaard
Data Management Specialist, DHI-NTU Water & Environment Research Centre and Education Hub
(Singapore)
How Wonderware Software addresses Challenges in Water Industry, illustrated by Real
Examples
Geok Kee Tay
Technical Manager, Asia Pacific, Wonderware (Singapore)
Challenges and Successes of Managing Water & Wastewater Infrastructure in China
Max Bobillier
Suez Environnement (France)
Innovative Plastic Piping Systems Contribute to NRW Reduction and Asset Management
Peck Tze Kang
Technical Support & Market Development Manager, Barouge Pte Ltd (Singapore)
Best Practice Management of Leading-Edge Water Infrastructure: A Case Study from
WaterSecure, Queensland
W.B. Adams and S. Romano
Leader, Strategic Consulting, MWH Australia (Australia)
Water Loss Assessment and Remediation in the Asia Pacific Region
Roland Liemberger
Vice Chair, IWA Water Loss Task Force (Austria)
Pressure Management – A strategic measure to reduce non-revenue
water in Hong Kong
S.Y. Kwan, Stephanus Shou, Tanin Kimshaiyong, Sherine Sathiasothy and Kennie Chan
Chief Engineer, Water Supplies Department (Hong Kong)
AMR, leakage detection and district metering : towards an information system for water
distribution networks
Pierre Sacareau, Jean-Paul Borlée, Marc Guerquin and Jean-Pierre Delétoille
Suez Environnement (France)
Ho Chi Minh City Non Revenue Water project
J. Viyakesparan and C. Harrison
Regional Water Supply Manager, MWH Singapore (Singapore)
Sewer Upgrading in Highly Urbanised Cities: Case of Hong Kong
Kelvin Lau
Black & Veatch Corporation (Hong Kong)
Use of Multi-Criteria Analysis to Prioritise Sewer Overflow Abatement in the Sydney
Basin, Australia
Tony Church, Judi Hansen and Brigitte Kuhn
General Manager, Sustainability, Sydney Water (Australia)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Managing Water Infrastructure
Operation and Maintenance for Sustainable Management of Water Supply and Sanitation
Services - the Critical Importance of O&M and the Sector's Failure to Grasp It
Darren Saywell and Dai Simizaki
Regional Director, International Water Association (The Netherlands)
National Institute of Public Health (Japan)
Avoiding Air Intake and Low Flow Velocity Insure Reliable Wastewater Pumping
P.U. Thamsen, T.Pensler, M. Oesterle and K.Rüdiger
Professor, Fluiddynamics, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
The Continuous Efforts to Operate and Maintain the Cisadane - Serpong 3000 L/s
Drinking Water Treatment Plant
Audrey Caron Rumamby
Engineer, PT Tirta Cisadane (Indonesia)
Operational Issues of RO Plants in the US
Kevin Price
Manager of Desalination Research, US Bureau of Reclamation (United States)
The First Year of Operation of Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment System
Michael Wehner and Shivaji Deshmukh
Assistant General Manager, Orange County Water District (USA)
Design, Commissioning and Operation of Three New Seawater RO Desalination Plants in
Sharjah, UAE
Felix Wang, Malcolm Parker, Kishor Deshmukh, Lisa Henthorne and Keith Scott
Senior Technologist, CH2M Hill (Singapore)
Operation & Maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Plants in Singapore – Over the Years
Wah Yuen Long
Director, Water Reclamation Plants, PUB (Singapore)
Effective Operation and Maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Malaysia
Abd. Rashid Bin Abd Rahman
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
Wastewater Treatment in South Africa
Tadeusz Malkiewicz
Researcher, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (South Africa)
Dissemination and Operation of Decentralized Waste Water Treatment Systems
(DEWATS) in Indonesia and the Philippines
Frank Fladerer
Country Director, BORDA (Indonesia)
Delivery of Wastewater Projects in Chicago, USA
Thomas Kunetz
Asst Director of Engineering, Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (United
States)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Water and Health
Global Perspective in Disease Burden
Jamie Bartram
Coordinator, World Health Organisation (Switzerland)
Presence and Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in Surface & Drinking Waters
Hans Sanderson
Senior Scientist, Danish National Environment Research Institute, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Addressing Public Concerns with Contaminants of Emerging Interest
Michèle Giddings and John Fawell
CALA Director, Health Canada (Canada)
Endocrine Disruptors and Pharmaceuticals: Implications for Water Sustainability
Shane Snyder
R&D Project Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority (USA)
WHO Aspirations in Drinking Water Quality Guidelines
Bruce Gordon
Technical Officer, World Health Organisation (Switzerland)
Pharmaceuticals in Water: Regulatory Challenges Ahead
Edward Ohanian
Director of Health and Ecological Criteria Division, Office of Water, USEPA (USA)
Lessons Learnt in Meeting EU Drinking Water Guidelines
Helmut Kroiss
Professor, Vienna University of Technology(Austria)
Customer Feedback as a Tool for Monitoring Water Quality in WSPs
Rose Lang
Director, IWA China Office (China)
Scaling-up Water Safety Plans: Strategies to Overcome Challenges
Jafar Shamsuddin
Manager, ITN Centre, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)
Improving Watershed Management for Better Water Quality in the WSP Context
Thomas Grizzard
Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (United States)
Intelligent Watershed Management: Projected Water Quality in Marina Reservoir Using
Field Data and Advanced Water Quality Modeling Tools
Hans Eikaas
Manager, Catchment and Waterways, PUB (Singapore)
Tracking the Behavior of Trace Contaminants during Treatment and in the Environment
Martin Reinhard
Professor, Stanford University (USA)
Improvement of Water Operators Performances by Using Statistical Techniques in
Controlling the Quality of Drinking Water Treatment Process
Daniela Simona Moldovan
Engineer, SC Compania Apa SA Braşov (Romania)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Water and Health
Commercializing a Remote, In Situ Sensor for Detecting and Identifying Microbial
communities in Aquatic Environments
Chris Melançon, James Birch, Christina Preston, Adeline Harris, Roman Marin III, Scott Jensen, Brent
Roman, Cheri Everlove and Christopher Scholin
President & CEO, Spyglass Biosecurity, Inc. (United States)
Using Benthic Invertebrates to Assess Biological Health in Singapore's Rivers and Canals
Blakely T.J., Eikaas H.S., Harding J.S., McIntosh A.R. and Winterbourn M.J.
Senior Manager, Catchment and Waterways Department, PUB (Singapore)
Trace Contaminants in Relation to Operations and Processes
Wolfgang Kuehn
CEO, DVGW Water Technology Center (Germany)
Bromate Metabolism, Detoxification, and Risk Research
Joseph Cotruvo, Richard Bull, Brian Cummings, Jeffrey Fisher, Oscar Quinones, Shane Snyder, Ong
Choon Nam, Guo Zhongxian, Jason Keith, Gilbert Gordon and Gilbert Pacey
Principal, Joseph Cotruvo & Associates LLC (USA)
The Management of Bromate Formation in the Production and Supply of Potable Water
on the Emirates of Abu Dhbai
Jamal Fahmi Shadid
Water Manager, Regulation and Supervision Bureau, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Utilization of Nanomodified and Chemo-modified Absorbents for the Selective Removal
of Arsenic and Mercury
Richard Woodling, Karthik Sathrugnan, Michael Wismer, Adam Szczesniak and Thomas Mallmann
Director of Technology, Siemens Water Technology (Singapore)
Appropriate Microbial Methods for Different Aspects of Water Safety Plans
Marion Savill
ESR Christchurch Science Centre (New Zealand)
Appropriate Microbial Methods for Different Aspects of Water Safety Plans
Marion Savill
Environmental Microbiology New Business Leader, Environmental Science and Research Ltd (New
Zealand)
Health-based Targets and Microbial Reduction
David Cunliffe
Principal Water Quality Advisor, Department of Health, SA Health (Australia)
Blastocystis in Water
Suresh Kumar
Professor, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Reducing the health risk by using rapid quantification methods for the monitoring of E.
coli and Enterococci in bathing waters
S. Courtois, Z. Do Quang, P. Bergeron and P. Massé
Researcher, SUEZ Environnement, CIRSEE (France)
Cyanobacterial Management Manual – A Practical Guide to Applying the State of the Art
Mike Burch
Senior Research Biologist, Australian Water Quality Centre (Australia)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Water and Health
Experience in Working on Cyanobacteria in China
Qu Weidong
Professor, Fudan University (China)
Experience in Working on Cyanobacteria in Japan
Taku Matsushita
Professor, Hokkaido University (Japan)
Integrated Watershed Assessment and Mitigation Approaches for Control of
Cyanobacteria in Small Canadian Freshwater Lakes
Bruce C. Anderson, Barry Husk, Andréanne Blais and Brent Wootton
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen’s University (Canada)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Planning for Sustainable Water Solutions
Integration – The Key to Sustainability
Kala Vairavamoorthy
Professor of Sustainable Urban Infrastructure System, UNESCO-IHE (The Netherlands)
Water Centric Cities of the Future - Towards Macroscale Assessment of Sustainability
Vladimir Novotny
CDM Chair Professor, Northeastern University (United States)
A Frameworks for Developing Sustainable Water Utilities in the Coming Decades
Peter Binney and Les Lampe
Director of Sustainable Planning, Black & Veatch Corporation (United States)
Transitioning to the Water Sensitive City: Insights from the Australian Experience
Rebekah Brown
Senior Lecturer, Monash University (Australia)
The Top 10 Practical Insights And Lessons Learnt From Working With Sustainability
Across Major Water Infrastructure Projects
Geoff Linke, Susanne Cooper and Alex Paton
General Manager, Water and Environment, Sinclair Knight Merz (Australia)
Water in the City of the Future – a Vision on Water for Healthy People and a Healthy
Environment
Hubert Gijzen
Regional Director and Representative UNESCO, UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the
Pacific (Indonesia)
Water Challenges in Israel and Sustainable Solutions for a Better Future
Booky Oren
President and CEO, Miya Water, Arison Water Company (Israel)
Japan’s Sustainable Water Solutions: Experiences and Technologies for Coping with the
Global Water Crisis
Yoshiyuki Imamura
National Institute of Land, Infrastructure and Management (Japan)
Water Resources and Its Management in China
Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang and Ruimin He
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (China)
The Cauvery River Basin In Southern India: Major Challenges And Possible Solutions In
The 21th Century
Davy Vanham and Wolfgang Rauch
Professor, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Exploration of Integrating Stormwater Best Management Practices into Landscape
Design in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
M. Jiang, X. Lin and S. Asselin
EDAW (China)
Developing a Sustainable Approach to Water Resource Management: the San Francisco
Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan
Joanne Siew
Project Planner, RMC Water and Environment (USA)
SWITCH – Twelve Cities Moving To The Future
Peter van der Steen
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Planning for Sustainable Water Solutions
Senior Lecturer, UNESCO-IHE (The Netherlands)
Water For All, Forever - Sustainable Solutions to a Drying Climate
Sue Murphy
CEO, Water Corporation (Australia)
Integrated Sustainable Water Reuse Infrastructure Development
Richard Ratcliffe, Marcel Goemans and Kate Smolenska
Global Technology Leader, MWH (United Arab Emirates)
Water Challenges in Building a Carbon Neutral City in the Middle East - A Masdar
Perspective
Meghan Hartman, Christopher Drew, Robert Garner and Jay Witherspoon
Water Studies Project Manager, CH2M Hill (USA)
Restorative Systems: Making the Transition
Cynthia Mitchell
Research Director, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
Marina Barrage – A Unique 3-in-1 Infrastructure Project in Singapore
Yap Kheng Guan and Brendan Harley
Director, 3PN, PUB (Singapore)
Application of Renewable Energy for Water Operations
Les K Lampe, Ric M O'Connell, Andrew R Shaw and Fred J. Ellermeier
Global Technology Practice Leader, Black & Veatch Corporation (United States)
Formulation of Sustainable Water Supply, Sewerage and Flood Management Strategies
for a New Mixed-Use Development near Mumbai, India
Kenneth C.H. Kwok and Roger Alley
Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited (Hong Kong)
Water Resource Management Strategies on a Watershed Scale: A Case Study for Water
Resources Sustainability on Chongming Island (China)
Huamei Huang, Bruce C. Anderson and Li-quan Zhang
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen’s University (China)
The Rotterdam Approach: Connecting Water with Opportunities
John Jacobs
Waterplan Programme Manager, Rotterdam Municipality (The Netherlands)
Balancing Green and Traditional Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Wet Weather
Management
R. Dwayne Myers, Jim Smullen, John Cromwell, Bob Raucher and Marc Cammarata
Water Resources Engineer, Camp Dresser Mckee, Inc. (USA)
Integrated Urban Catchment Management: Punggol-Serangoon Reservoir Scheme
Yok Gin Tan
Director, Policy & Planning (Singapore)
Water and Urban Design in Asian Cities
Herbert Dreiseitl
Director, Atelier Dreiseitl Waterscapes (Germany)
Water: Nature’s Amazing Reusable Resource – Talking about Quality, Not History
Linda Macpherson
Vice President, CH2M Hill (USA)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.
Planning for Sustainable Water Solutions
Plain Speaking about Water – Experience from the Trenches
Jennifer Simpson
Sunshine Coast Environmental Council (Australia)
Engaging the Minds of the Community: NEWater Wins Public Confidence in Singapore
Yap Kheng Guan and Sally Toh
Director, 3P Network, PUB (Singapore)
How can Scientists Communicate with the Public if They Can’t Even Talk to Each
Other?
Carol Howe
Programme Manager, UNESCO-IHE (Australia)
* Note: The above list consists of speakers who have confirmed to present at Water
Convention 2009, and is non-exhaustive. More papers and speakers can be expected for
the final Water Convention programme.