Introduction • Section C “Specialised workshops” • Iglesias Ana Water is essential for human, animal and plant life − Water quality, desalination and non-conventional wa- Technical University of Madrid () and is also a key driver of economic and social de- ter resources • Maia Rodrigo velopment. Protection of water resources and pro- − Climate change, extreme events and water security () motion of a sustainable water use are therefore − Water systems efficiency main cornerstones of environmental policies world- − • Pereira Luis wide. Although important progress on water man- Energy and technology agement, infrastructure, technologies and legisla- Technical (Portugal) tion have been made over the past decades in • Rossi Giuseppe many developed and developing countries, further efforts are still required to properly face major con- (Italy) Scientific Committee cerns such as floods and droughts, water scarcity, • Salas José water pollution, as well as access to safe sanita- tion, which can be further increased by climate • Alexandrov Vesselin Colorado State University (USA) change, population growth and urbanization. National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Bulgaria) • Savic Dragan The objective of the 6th International Symposium • Andreu Joaquin University of Exeter (United Kingdom) of the European Water Resources Association is to provide an open forum for analyzing the main chal- UPV Valencia (Spain) • Sechi Giovanni lenges for an effective water resources manage- • Badescu Viorel University of Cagliari (Italy) ment, also able to adapt to climate change im- pacts. Particular emphasis will be devoted to the Polytechnic (Romania) • Tsakiris George developments in the application of EU policies on • Benedini Marcello National Technical University () water resources management (i.e. Water Frame- work Directive 2000/60, Floods Directive 2007/60 Italian Hydrotechnical Association (Italy) • Versace Pasquale and Water Scarcity and Droughts Strategy), as well • Burlando Paolo University of Calabria (Italy) as to the latest advancements in water engineering all over the world. ETH Zürich (Switzerland) • Yannopoulos Stavros Abstracts could be proposed in all the sections of • Cancelliere Antonino Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) the Symposium. The first section will include papers referring to the implementation of EU Directives in University of Catania (Italy) the European member states. The second section • Charalambous Bambos will accept conventional academic papers and the Organizing Committee Water Board of Lemesos () third section will be more applied and practical. • Christodoulou Symeon Antonino Cancelliere Brunella Bonaccorso University of Catania (Italy) University of Catania (Italy) Sections of the Symposium University of Cyprus (Cyprus) • Diodato Nazzareno Giuseppe Rossi Leila Castiglione • Section A “Water resources management” University of Catania (Italy) University of Catania (Italy) Met European Research Observatory (Italy) − Evaluation of implementation of the EU Directives George Tsakiris David Johnny Peres 2000/60 and 2007/60 • Garrote Luis NTUA (Greece) University of Catania (Italy)

• Section B “Scientific Advances” Technical University of Madrid (Spain) − Advanced models and methods to improve the under- • Hamilton Stuart standing and mitigation of hydrological extreme events − Recent approaches and tools for water resources man- Hydro Tec Ltd (United Kingdom) agement under global change • Hrissanthou Vlassios

− Technological and management innovations for water Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) services Italian Association Hydrotechnical

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