For the fourth consecutive year, IDA will support the Water Leaders Summit at Singapore International Water Week. This year, IDA is co-organising the Water Leaders Roundtable on ‘Water in the Changing Urban Environment: The Water-Energy Nexus Challenge.’ This session, which takes place on July 6, will look into key challenges as well as opportunities in the integrated management of water and energy resources.
The session will be chaired by Leon Awerbuch, Past President and Director of IDA as well as Chairman of IDA’s Technical Programs Committee, and President, Leading Edge Technologies.
“Water and energy are intimately linked in all phases of their existence with important implications for technology development goals and programs. The production of energy requires large volumes of water while the treatment, distribution of water and particularly generation of fresh water by desalination is equally dependent upon readily available, low-cost and efficient use of energy. It is critically important that water and energy issues be viewed and managed in a holistic way,” said Awerbuch.
The Water Leaders Roundtable includes several prominent speakers:
- Andrew Grant, Director, McKinsey & Company
- Dr Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute
- Prof. Alex Zehnder, Director, Alberta Water Research Institute
- Thamer S Al-Sharhan, President & CEO, Marafiq Power and Water Utility Company
- Dr Lukas Loeffler, CEO, Siemens Water Technologies
