Omni Hotel at CNN Center

Atlanta, Georgia



Conference: February 28 – March 3, 2009

Exhibition: February 29 - March 1, 2009



The Call for Abstracts is now available.  Please submit your abstract online by following the links on the Call for Abstracts page of the Conference website.  The deadline for abstract submittal is June 25, 2008.



The Disinfection Committees of the Water Environment Federation, American Water Works Association, the International Ozone Association, the International Water Association, and the International Ultraviolet Association, and the International Co-ordination Committee of the Water Environment Federation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are sponsoring a seventh Specialty Conference to be held February 28 – March 3, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia at the Omni Hotel and CNN Center.

This conference will provide a forum for those professionals concerned with disinfection needs and technologies and will be focused on all aspects of the disinfection of water, wastewater, reuse water and biosolids.  The conference will also have a special focus on the disinfection or other treatment of water and the treatment and disinfection of wastewater in small communities and households in developed and developing countries.



This conference is targeted for engineers, scientists, consultants, academics, health officials, wastewater and water treatment plant operators and regulators, graduate students, implementing organizations, non-governmental organizations and governmental agencies, researchers, manufacturers and their representative groups and the industrial community from North America and abroad. Technical session topics will include but are not limited to the following:

A. Disinfection Resistance

B. Emerging Pathogens

C. Modeling Disinfection

D. Risk Assessment

E. Biosolids Disinfection

F. System Sizing

G. Reclaimed Water

H. Disinfection Byproducts

I. Source Tracking

J. UV Design/Operations

K. Innovative Disinfection Methods

L. Dechlorination

M. Alternate Disinfection Systems

N. Household Wastewater Collection/Disinfection/Treatment

O. Small Community Water Collection/Disinfection

P. Small Community Wastewater Distribution/Disinfection

Q. Other



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