Background
This conference is organised every 4-5 years and is intended to provide a forum for identification of medium to long-term water quality and health research requirements. Day 1 provides an opportunity for DWI research contractors and others to make presentations about recently completed research and current issues. The presentations on day 2 are intended to promote discussion of what future questions about drinking water quality may need to be addressed by research.
09.00 - 09.45 Coffee and registration
09.50 - Welcome and introduction by chairman
10.00 Genetic fingerprinting of Cryptosporidium for tracking disease outbreaks - Jonathan Wastling, University of Glasgow.
10.45 The Mycobacterium avium complex and M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis; risks to health and incidence in water - John Lee, Public Health Laboratory Service.
11.30 .WE-KNOW: Web-based European Knowledge Network on Water - Adriana Hulsmann, KIWA
12.15 Lunch
Session 2 Chairman - Mike Waite, Drinking Water Inspectorate
13.30 Report on international workshop on research needs for successful application of UV in drinking water treatment - Gertjan Medema, KIWA.
14.15 Removal of arsenic from drinking water - the Severn Trent Water experience - Nicola Selvin Severn Trent Water.
15.00 coffee
15.30 Natural radioactivity in drinking water - Joe Toole, Harwell Scientifics
16.15 Why provide storage within domestic premises? - Malcolm Brandt, Binnie Black & Veatch.
17.00 General discussion session.
19.00 for 19.30 Refreshments followed by conference dinner
Day 2 - Future challenges
Chairman - Owen Hydes OBE, consultant
09.00 Challenges in predicting future research requirements - Paul Gale, WRc-NSF.
09.45 Utility of surrogates for measuring Cryptosporidium infectivity - Frank Schaefer, United States Environment Protection Agency
10.30 coffee
11.00 Public health problems in the 21st century - Gordon Nichols, Public Health Laboratory Service.
11.45 Future regulatory parameters - John Fawell, Faber Maunsell.
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Alternative approaches to drinking water quality assurance for the 21st century - Rick Karlin, American Water Works Association Research Foundation.
14.30 Future challenges for the water industry - Tony Rachwal, Thames Water.
15.15 Discussion and close.