|
 
 
|
2006 REGIONAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS
MARCH 28-31, 2006
Please note that
all of our
functions, INCLUDING THE AWARDS LUNCH
will be held in the Donald
E. Stephens Conference Center, near the
Chicago O'Hare Airport.
|
Pre-Conference
Training Sessions
(Prices are
listed in the registration form) |
|
Tuesday, March
28, 2006 |
|
Time |
Title |
|
7:00-8:00 AM |
REGISTRATION FOR TRAINING SESSIONS
|
|
TRAINING SESSION 1 |
|
8:00-10:00 AM
|
Decentralized Water Systems (Part A)
National Environmental Services Center (NESC) |
|
10:00-10:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
|
10:15-12:15 PM
|
Decentralized Water Systems (Part B)
National Environmental Services Center (NESC)
|
|
TRAINING SESSION 2 |
|
10:15-12:15 PM
|
Managerial, Operational and Maintenance Best Practices for
Sustainable Water Services in Small and Medium Size Systems
Francois Brikké, Regional Team Leader WSP/World Bank |
|
12:15 to 1:15 PM |
Lunch (Own
arrangement)
|
|
TRAINING SESSION 3 |
|
1:15-3:15 PM |
Small and Medium Size Drinking Water Systems Technology: EPA’s Research
Program (Part A)
US
Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) |
|
3:15-3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
|
3:30-5:30 PM
|
Small and Medium Size Drinking Water Systems Technology: EPA’s Research
Program (Part B)
US
Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
|
|
TRAINING SESSION 4 |
|
1:15-3:15 PM |
Decentralized Wastewater Systems (Part A)
National Environmental Services Center (NESC) |
|
3:15-3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
|
3:30-5:30 PM
|
Decentralized Wastewater Systems (Part B)
National Environmental Services Center (NESC) |
NOTES
Pre-Conference Training Sessions
Simultaneous translation will be available for most sessions
Conference Sessions
Coffee
will be available for the attendees
9:30 to 11:30 AM
3:00 to 5:00 PM
Simultaneous translation will be available for some sessions
|
Conference Sessions |
|
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - Morning |
|
Session I: Opening, Plenary, and Panel Discussion
|
|
Time |
Title |
|
7:00-8:00 AM |
Registration
for the VII Regional Conference
|
|
8:00-9:30 AM |
OPENING
SESSION
Welcome Address:
Philip Braswell, Conference Chairman, President, USA
Inter-American Association of Sanitary
Engineering and Environmental Sciences (USAIDIS)
Message from WQA:
Peter J. Censky, Executive Director, Water Quality Association
(WQA)
Message from AIDIS:
Alex Chechilnitzky, President, Inter-American Association of
Sanitary and Environmental
Engineering (AIDIS)
Message from USEPA:
Sally Gutierrez, Director, US Environmental Protection Agency
National Risk
Management Research Laboratory (USEPA)
Keynote Address:
Joxel
Garcia, Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The Water and Wastewater Millennium
Development Objectives |
|
9:30-9:45 AM |
Coffee Break |
|
9:45-10:15 AM
10:15-10:45 AM
10:45-11:15 AM
11:15-12:45 PM |
Plenary Session 1:
Ronald Williams, Past President and Founder,
Caribbean
Water and Wastewater Association
(CWWA)
Environmental Health in Sustainable Development: The
Caribbean Experience and Vision
Plenary Session 2:
Horst Otterstetter, Past President AIDIS and USAIDIS
Environmental Health in Sustainable Development: The Latin
American Experience and Vision
Plenary Session 3:
Francois Brikké, Regional Team Leader WSP/World Bank
A
Private-Public and Social Partnership to Change Water and
Sanitation Management Models in the Americas
Panel Discussion:
What would you like the millennium initiative do for your
country?
Moderator: Carl-Axel Soderberg, Director of USEPA-EPD in
Puerto Rico and AIDIS Past President
Panelists: Sally Gutierrez, Director, US Environmental
Protection Agency National Risk Management Research
Laboratory (USEPA), Julio Suero,
Vice-president AIDIS Region I, and Region I Country Chapter
Presidents |
|
10:00-2:00 PM
|
Lunch
(Own arrangement) |
|
Wednesday,
March 29, 2006 - Afternoon |
|
Time |
Session II-A
Drinking Water: New Technologies and Applications
|
|
2:00-2:30 PM |
Emerging-Novel Technologies for Small and Medium Size Water
Systems
US
Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) |
|
2:30-3:00 PM |
Decentralized Systems: New Technologies and Applications
National
Environmental Services Center (NESC) |
|
3:00-3:30 PM |
New Decentralized POU Water Treatment Applications in
Small Systems: Arsenic Demonstration Study
Joseph Cotruvo, Cotruvo and Associates LLP, Washington, D.C. |
|
3:30-4:00 PM |
Comprehensive Performance Evaluations Water Treatment Plants for
Sustainable High Quality Drinking
Water, Puerto Rico
Ronald
Tamada and Yanice Mercado,CDM, Irma López
, Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Rene Renta,
RER Environmental Engineering Services |
|
4:00-4:30 PM |
Pumping Less Water to Serve More People: Optimizing a Water Supply
System
Fernando
Chiriboga, Nathan Turner, Carlos Echeverry, Hazen and Sawyer,
P.C. |
|
4:30-5:00 PM |
Rain Water Practicing with Local Participation, Chittagong Hill
Tracts,
Bangladesh
Abul
Hashem, Executive Director Resource and Human Development
Association
|
|
Time |
Session II-B
Wastewater: New Technologies and Applications |
|
2:00-2:30 PM |
Overview of National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity
Development Project
Don Brown,
USEPA, National Risk Management Research Laboratory,
Cincinnati,
OH |
|
2:30-3:00 PM |
The Decentralized Approach: Discussion , and Technical and Economic
Implications
James Kreissl,
LeslieCole, Barry Tonning, Tetra Tech, Inc., USA |
|
3:00-3:30 PM |
Selecting Appropriate Wastewater Treatment Technologies
for Large Urban Applications in Developing
Countries
Julian Sandino, Vice President and Assistant Director for
Technology, CH2M HILL, Kansas |
|
3:30-4:00 PM |
Use of Wetlands to Treat Septic Tank Effluent
Don Brown,
Chris Nietch, Leo Fichter, and Dave Chmehil, USEPA, National
Risk Management Research
Laboratory,
Cincinnati, and Steven Reese, Melissa Hoffman, and Steven
Buchburger,
University of Cincinnati,
OH |
|
4:00-4:30 PM |
Wetlands Rehydration Through Wastewater Reuse
Michael
Bomar l, Tetra Tech, Inc. Destin, Florida |
|
4:30-5:00 PM |
Treatability Testing Investigation for a Large Food Processing
Facility
Gonzalez
Reinaldo, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Kansas |
|
Conference
Sessions |
|
Thursday,
March 30, 2006 - Morning |
|
Time |
Session III-A:
Sector Roles, Project Finance, and Marketing Goods and Services |
|
8:00-8:30 AM |
The World Bank: Public and Private Sector Roles
Abel Mejia, Sector Manager Environment-Social Sustainable
Development, World Bank |
|
8:30-9:00 AM |
The World Bank: Payment for Environmental Services
Mark Austin, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank |
|
9:00-9:30 AM |
The World Bank: Project Financing and Technical Resources
Richard MacEwen, Consultant, World Bank |
|
9:30- 10:00 AM |
Financing the Water and Sanitation Sector: Challenges and
Prospects
Rubén Barocio, Independent Consultant
|
|
10:00-10:30 AM |
The Inter-American Development Bank: Operations and
Business Opportunities
Ivan Montalvo, Former IDB Senior Officer, International
Consultant |
|
10:30-11:00 AM |
The Inter-American Development Bank: Project Financing and
Technical Resources
Rubén Avendaño, Senior Sanitation Specialist, Inter-American
Development Bank |
|
11:00-11:30 AM |
US Trade and Development Agency: Doing Business in
Latin America and the
Caribbean
Katherine Maloney, Country Manager, Mexico and Central America |
|
11:30-12:00 AM |
Export Development
Canada: Environmental Infrastructure - Bringing Players Together
for Successful Financing
Etienne Grall, Senior Business Development Advisor, Export
Development Canada |
|
12:00-12:30 AM |
The Water Quality Association: Marketing and Selling Goods
and Services in the
Americas
Water Quality Association WQA – Aquatech
USA
|
|
Time |
Session III-B:
Solid Waste Technologies and Management |
|
8:00-8:30 AM |
The Waste Management Situation in Mexico
Pilar Tello, Directora AIDIS-DIRSA,
Mexcico
|
|
8:30-9:00 AM |
Manejo de Residuos Peligrosos en Mexico y su Relación
con el Programa Fronterizo
Alfonso Flores, Director de SEMARNAT, Mexico, and Ricardo
Picardi, USEPA |
|
9:00-9:30 AM |
Volume Reduction and Efficient Resource Recovery Solid and Liquid
Wastes: Improving Waste Management , Recovering Energy, and
Waste Conversion
Philip
Risby, The Dynamic Environmental Solutions - DES Group |
|
9:30-10:00 AM |
Biosolids Dried and Pelletized Using Landfill Gas as a Fuel
Joseph P. Curro,
Principal Engineer, CDM, MA, and Manuel Hernández, Project
Manager, CDM, FL |
|
10:00-10:30 AM |
Citrus Processing Plant Gets Juiced on Landfill Gas
Joseph P Curro,
Principal Engineer, CDM, MA and Eric Grotke, Principal
Engineers, CDM, FL |
|
10:30-11:00 AM |
Active Capping:
Low Cost
Technology to Contain-Reduce Risk of Contaminated Sediments
Priscilla Viana,
Ke Yin, Xiuhong Zhao, Karl Rockne, Department of Civil and
Materials Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago
|
|
Time |
Banquet - Awards Ceremony |
|
12:45-2:15 PM |
Awards Ceremony: Presentation of Awards and Recognitions
Philip Braswell, President,
USA
Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineering and
Environmental Sciences
(USAIDIS)
Keynote Address: Trade in Environmental Goods and Services
Dawn C. Kristof, President, Water and Wastewater Equipment
Manufacturers Association (WWEMA)
|
|
Thursday,
March 30, 2006 - Afternoon |
|
Time |
Session IV-A:
Demonstration Projects - Operation, Monitoring, Regulation, and
Sustainability |
|
2:30-3:00 PM |
Specialized Operators for Small and
Medium
Size
Municipalities
Menahen Libhaber, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World
Bank |
|
3:00-3:30 PM |
Reduction and Monitoring of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Wastewater Treatment
Walter Vergara, Lead Engineer, World Bank |
|
3:30-4:00 PM |
The Regulation of Water and Sanitation Services in
Mexico
Rubén Barocio
R. Environmental Management Division, AIDIS and Edgardo Benítez,
Consultant, Mexico |
|
4:00-4:30 PM |
Defining and Sustaining Water Resources in Rural Developing
Areas in
Honduras
Louis Manz, International Consultant
|
|
Time |
Session IV-B:
Infrastructure - Planning and Managing |
|
2:30-3:00 PM |
Creating Integrated Hydraulic Models From
Existing GIS Data:
A Case Study for the
Water and Wastewater Model Integration
for
The Region of Halton, Ontario, Canada
Freddy Baron,
Benny Wang, Earth Tech
Canada
and AIDIS Canada |
|
3:00-3:30 PM |
Evolution of a Useful Localized Wastewater Management Benchmarking
System
Efrain Armijos
and Merv Palmer, Earth Tech ,Canada |
|
3:30-4:00 PM |
Improving Sanitation Conditions in Communities of the
Panama Canal
Watershed
Carmen
Yee-Batista, Professional Engineer, CDM |
|
4:00-4:30 PM |
Recuperación
Económica de los Sistemas de Alcantarillados Después de un
desastre: Huracán Mitchell, Katrina y Otros
Alessandra
Lorenzetti-Lozano, Standard 10 Internacional
|
|
Time |
Final
Questions and Closing Remarks |
|
4:30-4:45 PM |
Philip Braswell, Conference Chairman, President,
USA
Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineering and
Environmental Sciences (USAIDIS) |
|
Special
Sessions |
|
Tuesday, March
28 - Evening |
|
Time |
Special
Session 1 |
|
6:00 – 7:30 PM |
Strengthening Institutional Relations:
USAIDIS President and Board of Directors, AIDIS President
and President Elect, AIDIS Executive Director, Vice-president
Region I, Country Chapter Presidents, QWA, Aquatech USA, AAEE,
AWWA, IDB, NESC, NSF, OAS, PAHO, TDA, USEPA, WB, WEF, WWEMA
|
|
Thursday,
March 30 - Evening |
|
Time |
Special
Session 2 |
|
6:00 – 7:30 PM |
Business For Region I:
USAIDIS President and Board of Directors, AIDIS President
and President Elect, AIDIS Executive Director, AIDIS
Vice-President Region I, Country Chapter Presidents of Region I |
|
Notes:
1.
Special Session 1:
It is open to members of USAIDIS, AIDIS, and other
associations attending the conference
2.
Special Session 2:
It is open to members of USAIDIS and AIDIS Country Chapters
attending the conference |
|
Other
Activities Offered by USAIDIS-WQA-Aquatech USA |
|
Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, March 29-31, 2006 |
|
Date and Time |
Activities |
|
Wed, March 29
5:00-6:30
PM |
WQA Aquatech Networking Welcome Reception / Industry
Celebration
Conference attendees will get free tickets to attend the
reception |
|
Wed-Fri, March 29-31
During the day
|
Visit to the Exhibit Show
Conference attendees will get free passes to visit the show |
|
Wed-Fri, March 29-31
During the day
|
Exhibitors Training Seminars:
Exhibitors will give short training seminars at their
booths on the floor
Conference attendees will get free passes to attend the
training seminars
|
| |
