The main theme of the conference is “Water Resources Management and Sustainability: Solutions for Arid Regions”. The conference includes technical sessions, posters, invited sessions, and workshops covering the following tracks:

Socio-Economic Water Studies (Governance, Pricing, Policy, and Regulation)

• Measuring Social and Environmental Values
• Community and Stakeholder Engagement
• New Technology Application Pathways
• Water Planning, Governance, Pricing, and Institutional Frameworks
• Remote Community Water Provision
• Regulatory Designs to Incentivize New Innovation
• Water Regulation and Policies
• Water Efficiency, Including Water Footprint and Virtual Water Calculations
• Changing Patterns of Water Consumption and Use
• Economic Management and Development

Climate Change and Water Resources Resilience (Risk management, Water Conservation, Provisioning)

• Environmental Water Provision and Management
• Urban Heatwaves and Greening
• Risk and Adaptive Management
• Water Sharing and Provisioning
• Environmental Water Provision and Management
• Environmental Drivers Changing Hydrologic System and Consequences
• Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Aquifers
• Transboundary Aquifers Under Climate Change

Water Resources and Hydrological Processes (Rainwater harvesting, Droughts, Flash Flood Prediction and Management)

• Advances in Hydroinformatics
• Innovative Geospatial Technology, GIS, and RS Applications in Water Resources Management
• Basin wide and Integrated Watershed Management
• Rainwater, Stormwater and Atmospheric Water Harvesting
• Surface Water/Groundwater Interaction
• Sustainable Flood Retention Basins
• Drought Analysis
• Hydrologic Numerical Simulation and Modeling Approaches
• Erosion, Sediment Transport, and Hotspot Delineation
• Advances in Airborne Techniques in Water Resources Management

Advanced Technologies in Water Resources Management (Large Scale Water Management, AI, ASR, MAR)

• Artificial Intelligence in Water Resources Management
• Innovations in Aquifer Storage and Recovery; and Managed Aquifer Recharge
• Flow and Transport Modeling and Predictive Technologies
• Integrated Aquifer Characterization/Visualization Techniques
• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
• Novel Sampling, Analysis, Monitoring, Optimization, and Automation
• Approaches in Water Statistics and Data Collection Methods
• Smart Water Technologies & Digital Solutions
• Advances in Isotope Hydrogeology

Non-Conventional Water Resources and Water Quality Management (Desalination, Water Recycling, Water Reuse)

• Low Energy Desalination, Distillation, and Brine Waste Recycling
• Recent Developments to Improve Desalination
• Novel Water Recycling and Reuse Technologies
• Energy Efficiency and Resource Recovery in Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Energy Capture Across Water Systems
• Efficient Technologies and Analytical Methods for Emerging Contaminants
• Biological and Nature-Based Water Treatment
• Groundwater Contamination and Protection
• Progress in Water Resources Protection and Remediation
• Groundwater Vulnerability and Groundwater Pollution Risk
• Advanced Techniques in Water Quality Assessment
• Advances in Water Quality Modeling and Prediction

Water Resources Sustainability (SDGs, Water-Food-Energy Nexus, Social and Economic Growth, and Environmental Sustainability in Arid Regions)

• Water Demand and Consumption
• Strategies to Assure the Sustainability of Groundwater Resources
• Water Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arid Regions
• Water Restoration and Sustainable Use
• Unsustainable Patterns of Water Consumption and Use
• Sustainable Development Goals in Action
• Low and High Temperature Geothermal Energy
• Novel Facets in Water, Food, and Energy Nexus