Morocco, Jordan, and Algeria. The Eighth International Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi Systems (ISFF8) is organized by the National Water and Energy Center, UAE University, on November 4-5, 2024. The two-day symposium will take place in Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates, on the campus of the UAE University. This version will convene on the theme "Flash Floods, Water Harvesting, and Groundwater Recharge Potentials".

ISFF8 will assist the community in strengthening the network, promoting actions, raising awareness, ensuring coordination and collaboration, establishing common goals and targets, monitoring progress, and taking effective measures to address a variety of flood-related issues. The event will address flash flood knowledge gaps, including the lack of access to the latest information and technology needed to generate effective warnings, and promote worldwide development and collaboration. The event will provide hydrological modelers, operational forecasters, and disaster management agencies with cutting-edge knowledge, technologies, and advice products on small-scale flash floods.

ISFF8 will focus on groundwater recharge and climate change and water-related hazards such flash floods and sediment disasters.

It will be an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, research, and lessons learned from recent flood and sediment disasters and successful groundwater recharge attempts form flood water.

This symposium is a premier forum for researchers, experts, engineers, practitioners, planners, managers, and decision makers to discuss and share recent advances in science, technology, modeling, and practices for better water-related disaster risk management and climate adaptation policies. Keynote speeches, oral presentations, and poster sessions exhibiting contemporary innovations and research discoveries will address flood-related issues across the two-day event. Pre-conference interactive workshops will cover present and future challenges and potential for change, as well as flash flood technologies and methods.

Continuing to share knowledge, experiences and lessons learned by all participants, ISFF8 organizers welcome presentations from all relevant fields.