Conference report 7th JSWA/EWA/WEF Specialty Conference “Resilience of Water Service”

For the 7th time, the Joint Conference, organized by the Japan Sewage Works Association (JSWA), the U.S. Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the European Water Association (EWA) was held on November 15-17, 2022, in Sendai, Japan. The core of the conference was the resilience of the overall water sector. Tohoku earthquake severely damaged the city of Sendai eleven years ago, and the conference provided an occasion of a commemoration of this disaster. The conference enabled a vital exchange between the three associations again. Practical problems from different countries and diversified perspectives and approaches, with related options for solution, were presented and discussed. As the representative delegation of the EWA, Raymond Erpelding (ALUSEAU, Luxembourg), Fabio Tatàno (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy), Harsha Ratnaweera (Norwegian University of Natural Sciences, Norway) as well as Andre Niemann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Torsten Frehmann (Emschergenosenschaft / Lippeverband, Germany) and Nora Pankow (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany) participated as speakers in presence at the conference. Additionally, Karoly Kovacs (Hungarian Water Association, Hungary) and Bjørn Kaare Jensen (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark) contributed to the conference with on-video presentations.