Call for abstracts, announcement of themes for 2011 Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy Conference

Abstracts for the 2011 Water and Health Conference, to be held October 3-7 at UNC Chapel Hill, can be submitted electronically via the conference website.

The submission deadline is May 1.

This year’s Water and Health Conference will feature themes ranging from Freshwater Availability and Climate Change Adaptation to Human Right and Ethics.

Other themes for 2011 include Perspectives on WaSH for Small Communities and Peri-urban Areas, and Southeastern US Water Challenges.

For a complete list of conference themes and abstract submission details, visit whconference.unc.edu.

Main Conference Themes:

Freshwater Availability & Climate Change Adaptation
Southeastern U.S. Water Challenges
Human Rights and Ethics
Small Community Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Peri-urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Hygiene Behaviors and Household Water Treatment

Contact information	Margo Ginsberg Public Communications Specialist The Water Institute at UNC UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 356 Rosenau Hall CB#7431 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431 (email: margo.ginsberg@unc.edu) Phone: +1 919-966-7302
News type	CallForPaper
File link	http://whconference.unc.edu/call_for_papers.cfm
Source of information	UNC
Keyword(s)	Climate Change Adaptation, Human Right and Ethics
Subject(s)	ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , WATER QUALITY
Geographical coverage	n/a
News date	16/03/2011
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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