International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management: Effective Approaches for River Basins and Urban Catchments WRM on May 18-20, 2021 in Southampton, United Kingdom

The 11th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management will present recent technological and scientific developments, associated with the management of surface and sub-surface water resources and also the river basin management methodologies.  

Water is essential for sustaining life on our planet and its uneven distribution is a source of permanent conflict. The growth of human population combined with the irregularity in precipitation and water availability may restrict even further the access to water in certain regions of the world. This problem is made more severe by anthropogenic activities that affect its quality.  

River Basin Management includes all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Flood Plains and Wetlands. Riverine systems are coming under increasing pressure due to anthropological and natural causes. Prominent amongst the problems affecting them is water scarcity and quality, which requires the development of improved methods for better river management.  

Changes in the landscape, use of the land and climate conditions lead to a continuous re-evaluation of river basin management objectives. This requires the development of better measuring tools as well as the use of increasingly accurate computer software.  

Catastrophic events such as floods and associated landslides, erosion and sedimentation can have serious effects not only on life and property but also on the basin ecology. Frequently these problems are aggravated by the unforeseen consequences of man-made changes in the river basin. This has led in recent years to work on river restoration and rehabilitation with various degrees of success.  

The conference provides a platform for professionals involved in sustainable water resources management to exchange knowledge and gain an insight into the state of the art in the current technology, techniques and solutions in that field as they have been developed and applied in different countries. Participants include a wide variety of stakeholders from research and academia, to industrial sectors as well as government organisations.  

The first conference of this series was held in Halkidiki, Greece in 2001, followed by Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (2003); the Algarve, Portugal (2005); Kos, Greece (2007); Malta (2009), Riverside; California (2011) the New Forest, UK, home of the Wessex Institute (2013); A Coruna, Spain (2015); Prague, Czech Republic (2017) and Alicante, Spain (2019).  

Papers presented at the Sustainable Water Resources Management meetings are permanently available to the international community in digital format at www.witpress.com/elibrary.