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The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences

Innovative Trends to Reshape the Water Science, Technology and Engineering

Part of the International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences series
14–16 Oct 2024
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time

Water Science, Water Technology, Water Engineering
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Welcome from the Chair

We are delighted to welcome you to the 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-8), which will be held online and promoted by the open-access MDPI journal Water (ISSN 2073-4441; IF 3.0).

In recent years, seven International Electronic Conferences on Water Sciences (ECWS-1, ECWS-2, ECW-3, ECWS-4, ECWS-5, ECWS-6 and ECWS-7) have addressed various important water-related issues. The seventh conference focused on adaptive water resource management, policies and governance to tackle the challenges of the ongoing climatic, environmental and social changes. The ECWS-8 will explore and discuss the following key issues: adaptive water resources management; new technologies in water science; enhancement of water safety and security for humans, their economic activities and the environment; and the formulation of new numerical methods and structures for water resources adaptation, management and development.

The ECWS-8 invites researchers from academia, as well as water practitioners, to contribute original findings, novel ideas, scientific concepts and new technologies and experiences to deal with water resource management, policies and governance, with a special focus on sustainability, resilience, uncertainty, risk and adaptation, making reference to the following topics:

1. Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs;
2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water–Energy Nexus;
3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports;
4. Urban Water, Systems Efficiency, and Smart Water Grids and Technology;
5. Numerical and Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences;
6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation.

The conference will be held entirely online, allowing people from all around the world to participate without any concerns about travel or related expenses. An electronic conference offers a platform for quick and direct exchanges of the latest research findings and innovative ideas.

The water scientific community's support and enthusiasm are greatly appreciated, as you play a crucial role in ensuring the success of this 8th edition of ECWS. Your contribution will pave the way for many more successful editions in the future.

Kind regards,
Prof. Helena M. Ramos
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Program Overview

14th October
Morning
15th October
Morning
16th October
Morning and Afternoon


S1.
Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs


S6.
Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation






S4.
Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids


14th October
Afternoon
15th October
Afternoon


S5.
Numerical Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus

S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports

ECWS - 8 Program (DAY1)

ECWS-8
S1. Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs

Date: 14 October 2024 (Monday)
Time: 9:30 (CEST, Basel) | 03:30 (EDT, New York) | 15:30(CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CEST

Speaker

Title

09:30-09:40

Prof. Helena M. Ramos
Event Chair

Welcome Speech from the Event Chair

09:40-09:50

Dr. Lampros Vasiliades and Dr. Luis Garrote
Session Chairs

Welcome from the Session Chairs

09:50-10:05

ATHANASIOS KARANTAKIS
Selected Speaker

Identification, Delineation and Mapping of Riparian areas.

10:05-10:20

Gepraxia Tsiatsiari
Selected Speaker

Ecosystem Services of Riparian areas of Pinios River basin.

10:20-10:35

Eleftheria Tzimika
Selected Speaker

Impact of the dam breach mechanisms and characteristics on dam break flood wave and flooded area. Application in Tsiknias dam.

10:35-10:50

THEODORA KALARYTI
Selected Speaker

Effect of submerged vegetation on spatial structure of open-channel flow

10:50-11:05

Daniel Carril Rojas
Selected Speaker

Improving hydrological dam safety analyses by using 2D hydrodynamic simulation to estimate the magnitude of historical floods with uncertainty

11:05-11:20

Sara Araújo
Selected Speaker

Unveiling the Mystery of Biofilm Formation: Insights from Klebsiella isolated from Hospital Wastewater vs. Surface Water

11:20-11:35

Zuhal Zengin
Selected Speaker

Bacterial Community Composition in a Deep Lake During Spring Turnover with Toxic Cyanobacteria Bloom

11:35-14:30

Break

ECWS-8
S5. Numerical Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

Date: 14 October 2024 (Monday)
Time: 14:30 (CEST, Basel) | 08:30 (EDT, New York) | 20:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CEST

Speaker

Title

14:30-14:40

Prof. Dr. Junye Wang
Session Chair

Welcome from the Session Chair

14:40-15:10

Prof. Dr. Aitazaz A. Farooque
Keynote Speaker

Application of Advanced Modelling Techniques for Sustainable Water Management.

15:10-15:25

Sergio Ricardo López-Chacón
Selected Speaker

Interpretation of variables in a machine learning model for short-term streamflow prediction.

15:25-15:40

Suhaila Kamal
Selected Speaker

Assessing stream flows and dynamics of the Athabasca River basin using machine learning.

15:40-15:55

Mohamed Naim
Selected Speaker

Meteorological Drought Management in the Mediterranean: Integrating Satellite and Reanalysis Data for Enhanced Early Warning Systems in the Tensift River Basin.

15:55-16:10

Melvin Alfonso Garcia-Espinal
Selected Speaker

Synthetic Year Generation for Irrigation Systems: Optimizing Networks using a Distribution-based Methodology in MATLAB.

16:10-16:25

Alberto Enrique Molina Lozano
Selected Speaker

Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Degradation of Dyes in Water Using Pulsed Electrodeposited CeO2-TiO2 Nanorod Photoanodes.

16:25-16:40

Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Selected Speaker

PREDICTING PER- AND POLYFLUORO-ALKYL SUBSTANCE UPTAKE BY AGRICULTURAL CROPS USING MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS.

ECWS - 8 Program (DAY2)

ECWS-8
S6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation

Date: 15 October 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CEST

Speaker

Title

09:00-09:10

Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas
Session Chair

Welcome from the Session Chair

09:10-09:25

Prof. Rodrigo Maia
Invited Speaker

Integrated System for Flood Forecast and Warning in a transboundary river. Perspectives from an Iberian Peninsula Case

09:25-09:40

Stylianos Voudouris
Selected Speaker

Assessing the vulnerability of water resources to drought by applying the Standardized Drought Vulnerability Index (SDVI) to the Lake Karla basin.

09:40-09:55

Mike Spiliotis
Selected Speaker

A Fuzzified Multicriteria Approach for Water Resource Management Based on the French School of Multicriteria.

09:55-10:10

Aikaterini Lyra
Selected Speaker

Propagation of Climate Model Variability to Coastal Groundwater Simulations under Climate Change

10:10-10:25

Isa Ebtehaj
Selected Speaker

Advanced Flood Classification Using Rapid Machine Learning Techniques: Insights from Saint-Charles Station, Quebec.

10:25-10:40

Marios Mpillios
Selected Speaker

Regional frequency estimates of annual rainfall maxima and sampling uncertainty quantification.

10:40-10:55

Gülşah Kılıç
Selected Speaker

Flood Risk Map For Büyükçekmece District Based On Socioeconomic Factors.

10:55-11:10

ALEXANDRA MEGAHED
Selected Speaker

THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON THE HYDROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE ZARQA MAIN HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN (DEAD SEA)

11:10-14:30

Break

ECWS-8
S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus
S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports

Time: 14:30 (CEST, Basel) | 08:30 (EDT, New York) | 20:30 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CEST

Speaker

Title

14:30-14:40

Dr. Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel
Session Chair

Welcome from the Session Chair

14:40-14:55

Dr. Oscar E. Conrnando Herandez
Invited Speaker

Novel Tools for Analysing Filling and Emptying Operations in Water Distribution Networks.

14:55-15:10

Cristian Alexander German
Selected Speaker

Computational Enhancement of Water Distribution Network Analysis and Optimization Models through Topological Simplification.

15:10-15:25

Duban A. Paternina-Verona
Selected Speaker

Computational Fluid Dynamics for Simulation of Large-Scale Pipeline Filling Processes.

15:25-15:40

João Soares Tavares Coelho
Selected Speaker

Multi-criteria optimization modeling of hybrid energy solutions for the water–energy nexus.

START

S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports

15:40-15:50

Dr. Borja G. Reguero and Dr.Cristina Sousa
Session Chairs

Welcome from the Session Chairs.

15:50-16:15

Dr. Luis R. Vieira
Keynote Speaker

Emerging Pollution in Estuaries, Coasts and Ports: Innovative Solutions and Stakeholder Action to Tackle Marine Litter

16:15-16:30

Asimakis Nestoras Karagiannis
Selected Speaker

Assessing Coastal Vulnerability to Oil Spills Using GNOME and GIS Analysis.

16:30-16:45

ALEXANDRA G. ASPIOTI
Selected Speaker

The effect of wind on tidal circulation in the Gulfs of Patras and Corinth.

16:45-17:00

Vânia Amorim
Selected Speaker

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) on marina surface waters from the Douro River, Portugal

ECWS - 8 Program (DAY3)

ECWS -8
S4. Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids

Date: 16 October 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)

Time in CEST

Speaker

Title

09:00-09:10

Dr. Marco Ferrante and -Prof. Carmen Teodosiu

Session Chairs

Welcome from the Session Chairs.

09:10-09:25

Tiago Correia
Selected Speaker

Towards Net-Zero Carbon in the Water Sector: The case of Maderia Island's water supply system.

09:25-09:40

Cristina M. Monteiro
Selected Speaker

IMPACT OF URBAN GREEN ROOFS ON DOWNSTREAM SYSTEM DESIGN.

09:40-09:55

Alessio Chisari
Selected Speaker

Optimizing Energy Use in Water Supply Networks: Minimizing Pump Consumption and Ensuring Water Quality.

09:55-10:10

Camila Garcia
Selected Speaker

EVALUATION OF SDGs USING INDICATORS IN URBAN WATER SYSTEMS.

10:10-10:25

Iolanda-Veronica Ganea
Selected Speaker

Eco-Innovative Magnetic Nanostructures: Pioneering Solutions for Mining Wastewater Challenges.

10:25-10:40

Rana Waqar Aslam
Selected Speaker

A Novel Approach to Urban Groundwater Quality Assessment: Combining Geospatial Analysis, Geostatistics, and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Water Quality Indices.

10:40-10:55

Roberto Gueli
Selected Speaker

Energy Optimization for Water Distribution Networks.

10:55-11:10

PELİN SOYERTAŞ YAPICIOĞLU
Selected Speaker

Techno-economic performance assessment of malt-dust-derived biochar application for municipal wastewater treatment: A water reuse strategy.

11:10-11:25

Iris Correia
Selected Speaker

Adsorption studies of ibuprofen by alginate spheres containing activated carbon and first trials using wastewater treatment plant effluent as matrix.

11:25-14:30

Break

14:30-14:40

Dr. Marco Ferrante and -Prof. Carmen Teodosiu
Session Chairs

Welcome from the Session Chairs.

14:40-14:55

Fabiano Castrogiovanni
Selected Speaker

ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF A SELF-FORMING DYNAMIC MEMBRANE WITH ELECTRO MBR.

14:55-15:10

Amir Noori
Selected Speaker

Pressure Reduction Forecasting in Urban Water Distribution Systems Using EPANET and Machine Learning Models.

15:10-15:25

Dean Song
Selected Speaker

The acid and base catalytic oxidation of permanganate towards antibiotic pollutants.

15:25-15:40

João Pedro Magalhães
Selected Speaker

Local Scale Integrated Approaches for Enhancing Water Reuse: Constructed Wetland Case Study

15:40- 15:55

Alex Javier Garzón-Orduña
Selected Speaker

Optimization of Drinking Water Network Management: Traditional and Innovative Approaches for Leak Detection and Management.

15:55-16:10

Santhana Krishna Kumar Alagarsamy
Selected Speaker

Magnetic nanoparticles decorated with synthetic zeolite derived from coal fly ash: Application to removal of heavy metals and organic dyes.

16:10-16:25

Dan Dai
Selected Speaker

Water quality and Ecosystem Services degradation in intensively urbanized arid regions versus Wastewater Treatment infrastructure development plans.

16:25-16:40

Lin Guo
Selected Speaker

The effect of citric acid on enhancing metal (Cu2+, Ni2+and Pb2+ ) uptake in duckweed.

16:40 - 16:55

Ana Rita Pereira
Selected Speaker

Impact of Methylparaben on Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Colony Biofilm Architecture and Tolerance to Chlorination and Antibiotics.

Live Session Recordings

Day 1| S1. Rivers, Dams and Reservoirs

S5. Numerical Experimental Methods, Data Analyses, Digital Twin, IoT Machine Learning and AI in Water Sciences

Day 2 |S6. Water Resources Management, Floods and Risk Mitigation

S2. Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Transients, Hydropower and Pumped Storage in Water-Energy Nexus

S3. Estuaries, Coasts and Ports


S4. Urban Water, Treatment Technologies, Systems Efficiency and Smart Water Grids

Book of Abstracts

The online version of the ECWS-8 book of abstracts including program and all abstracts is available to browse and download!

Event Chair

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Session Chairs

Dr. Lampros Vasiliades

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece

Dr. Luis Garrote

Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and Environment Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Dr. Marco Ferrante

DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA CIVILE ED AMBIENTALE, Università di Perugia, Italy

Prof. Dr. Carmen Teodosiu

Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Prof. Dr. Junye Wang

Athabasca River Basin Research Institute, Athabasca University, Canada

Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas

Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr. Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel

Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Dr. Borja G. Reguero

Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, USA

Dr. Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros

1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR) University of Porto, Portugal 2. Institute of Science and Environment, University of St. Joseph, China

Event Committee Members

CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Italy

School of Water Resources & Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, China

Department of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Fernando Pessoa Research, Innovation and Development Institute (FP-I3ID), University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Portugal

Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management, AGH University of Krakow, Poland

Antalya Bilim University, Turkey

Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Croatia

Department of Finance, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Italy

The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering , Spain

Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Morocco

School of Environment Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Department of Marine Sciences, School of the Environment, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria | ESTM · School of Tourism and Maritime Technology

Keynote Speakers

Department of Engineering School of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Introduction
Email
afarooque@upei.ca

CIIMAR - Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Invited Speakers

Universidad de Cartagena., Cartagena, Colombia

Registration

The registration for ECWS-8 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.

If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.

Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 11 October 2024.

Instructions for Authors

Procedure for Submission

ECWS-8 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

Important Deadline
1. Deadline for abstract submission:17 June 2024 31 July 2024
2. Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 30 June 2024 10th September 2024. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.

Abstract Submission

Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.

1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.


Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.

Note: We only accept live presentations.

Oral Presentation and Slides Submission
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Presentation

- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
- You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.

We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.

Copyright

MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.

Publication Opportunities

1. WaterJournal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Water (ISSN 2073-4441, Impact Factor 3.0), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.

2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 8th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ISSN: 2673-4931) in the Environmental Sciences Proceedings; if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.

Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECBM2024 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.

Proceedings submission deadline: 1 December 2024

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title.
Full author names.
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
Abstract.
Keywords.
Introduction.
Methods.
Results and Discussion.
Conclusions.
Acknowledgements.
References.

Event Awards

To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.

The Awards
Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards

Number of Awards Available: 6

The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.

There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.

Sponsors and Partners

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Organizers


Media Partners

Conference Secretariat

Ms. Lisa Yang
Ms. Miruna Nicolcioiu
Email: ecws@mdpi.com

For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.

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