Stuart Hamilton, distinguished international expert on water loss and leakage, with over 30 years of industry experience spanning the UK, UAE, Kuwait, Europe, USA, Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Russia, Zambia, Thailand and Ukraine.

Key experience:

• An expert in advanced water management control approaches and specialist techniques including acoustic technology, metering techniques and pressure control in both small and large diameter networks
• Experienced auditor ensuring best techniques, methodologies and equipment are used in reducing water losses
• Writing methodologies for best ALC / Water Loss practices depending on the region, city and country where the activities are taking place and taking into account all distribution scenarios.
• Reviewer of ALC teams working on projects ensuring best practices are being conducted and writing training programs to rectify any faults located.
• Involved in numerous flow metering projects including district metering, reservoir and tower monitoring, large diameter bulk transfer mains, engineering design and rehabilitation schemes.
• Managed large Water Loss Management projects and resources throughout the world.
• raining of staff throughout the world in Water Loss Control and management techniques. Specialising in ALC activities.
• Completed projects in the UK, USA, Mexico, South Africa, Europe, UAE, Kuwait, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Russia, Zambia, Thailand and Ukraine.
• Developed methodologies for water utilities to adopt best practice and time management systems in water loss control and management activities.
• Designed and written leakage reduction/ water master plans including 10 year demand analysis plan covering engineering processes, rehabilitation schemes, investment requirements and payback periods showing potential savings ensuring investments are paid for by the savings made.
• Written and had published a number of papers, articles and training manuals as well as being contracted to write a book on water loss techniques and equipment for the IWA.
• Chair of a group to design the methodology of how to conduct Active Leakage Control in regions of non metallic distribution network.
• Chair of a group to design, evaluate and write an Internal Asset Condition document to give guidance to the world utilities on Internal Condition Assessment approaches and techniques.

Stuart has a distinguished record of service to the water industry. He served as secretary of the Water Loss Task Force (WLTF) of the International Water Association (IWA) from 2006 to 2008. He is currently chair of the Acoustic & Technology Initiative for the IWA WLSG (Water Loss Specialist Group) and member of the water loss control committee within the AWWA. He is also a member of the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) Executive Committee and chair of the Energy and Technology group.

Stuart owned and built up one of the largest leak detection companies in the UK, called Hydrosave UK, which he sold in 2006. He is currently Managing Director of Hydro Tec Group (which includes Hydrosave International, Hydro Training and Hydro Tec) and Managing Director of JD7, having acquired 30% of the company in January 2011.

Stuart's qualifications include:

• Chartered Environmentalist - Institute of Water, London
• Chartered Manager - University of Huntingdon, Institute of Management, London
• Qualified Engineer - University of Northampton
• Fellow Member of Chartered Institute of Water Environmental Managers (FCIWEM)
• Fellow Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineers (FCIPHE)

Markus Giebel is a co-founder of Amplex Holding focusing on energy, utility efficiency and agriculture. Until 2010, he was CEO of Deyaar Development PJSC, a publicly traded real estate company listed on the DFM (Dubai Financial Market). Until 2004, Markus was as a senior executive of Corning, a Fortune 500 firm headquartered in the US. In 2003, he became the youngest Vice President of Corning and took control of the OEM market in Europe and the Middle East after the successful acquisition of Siemens NK valued at $1.5 billion.

Throughout his career, Giebel was presented with several awards and distinctions, including the CEO Award of the Middle East (2010), the Leadership Award of the Middle East (2010), the INSEAD case study (2009), the Business Award from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs (2004) and other honours. He has over 25 patents and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Switzerland Business School, and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Munich in Germany.

Markus Giebel serves currently on multiple Boards (Chairman of Vedera Capital, Chairman of Aesthetics, Board member of Amplex Holding, Board member of Homeway) and is involved in many business ventures around the globe.

Best technology and financing options for system-wide leakage monitoring and theft detection

One of the most valuable natural resources - the drinking water - is wasted due to leaks in the water pipes, pipeline ruptures, theft and other water loss components in our urban, rural and agriculture water supply. It is not uncommon for cities to lose more than 30% of their water during distribution to the end-user, making water distribution systems one of the most inefficient in the world.

This presentation will focus on the selection of the best technology and the financing options for a status monitoring leakage and/ or theft detection and monitoring system for utility companies. The integrated cost of water loss will be compared to the installation and operational cost of a status monitoring system. Different Financing options such as BOT models for a system-wide leakage and theft detection will be discussed.

Dale has over 18 years experience with international water projects, and is an active member of the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group, most recently being a Co-Author and contributor in the acoustic leak detection matrix.

Dale's areas of specialisation include acoustic leak detection technology, flow and pressure monitoring, advanced pressure control, and water loss control training programmes.

Dale has held senior management posts at several leading water loss instrumentation manufacturers, gaining a wealth of field experience with state of-the-art NRW technologies, and extensive field & NRW project experience in South Africa, Australasia, Caribbean, Central & South America, the Middle East, North America and throughout Europe.

Reducing leak run time through quicker, accurate and more reliable leak notification

Managing holistic Non Revenue Water (NRW) projects involves many man hours in the field identifying, collecting and integrating data and/or establishing boundaries for the District Metering Areas (DMA) and/or District Metering Zones (DMZ) before the actual work of reducing the NRW can commence. The time frame stipulated in contracts, can at times, hinder the success rate of these contracts.

The presentation focuses on introducing an overall objective of reducing leak run time, by quicker, more accurate and more reliable leak notification, focusing on the best possible use of resource and technologies in efficient notification, verification and repair.

It will touch on a combination of the various technologies currently available for permanent network monitoring (acoustic, flow and pressure combined) with data sent/retrieved remotely and wirelessly (example, GSM, WiFi), integrated into a GIS package (with examples from the MENA region). Leak positions (including those leaks which have already been verified and repaired) can then be further integrated as part of a complimentary pipe rehabilitation and/or replacement programme to improve efficiency in this area of investment too.

Additionally, Hartley will talk about a more proactive approach to leak 'prevention', by assessing the pipelines which are most likely to suffer leaks in the near future. This also aids the efficient focus of pipe rehabilitation and repair. In this era of cost rationalisation, the utilisation of these available tools and technologies collectively enhances the chances of success for projects of this nature.

Jeremy Llewellyn is the CEO of Blue Gold Technology, a leading Middle East supplier of leak related technologies from Gutermann, Technolog, JD7, Sensus, Syddal and Palintest. In the past, he held executive management positions with leading manufacturers of water leak detection equipment. He was CFO of Palmer Environmental, Radcom Technologies and Fluid Conservation USA (all now trading as Halma Water Management). He later became CEO of Radio-Tech, a market leader in Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) technologies. Radio-Tech successfully deployed the largest automatic meter reading project in Paris covering 30,000 buildings.

Technology suitable to local conditions

Jeremy will present on technologies suitable local market conditions. Drawing on his extensive experience within the region, he will discuss the mix of technologies that can be used to reduce unaccounted for water, their effectiveness and the problems one could encounter along the way.

Khaled Ismail Ibrahim is Project Manager with International Aramoon Corp (IAC) since 2007. He was the team leader in the development of WATCH LEAK Water Management System. He started by managing the Water Leak Detection project for City of Riyadh and now manages Water Leak Detection projects for six cities of Riyadh province. The objective is to reduce the water loss in the network by designing and calculating the DMA using the WATCH LEAK system.

Khaled received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from University of Cairo on 1986. He is a member of Egyptian Society of Engineers.

Controlling leakage with GIS-based water network monitoring

The two distinct types of water losses faced by utilities are 'Apparent Losses' and 'Real Losses.' Utilities require information to control such losses. The traditional water audit collects data manually during a single historic time and is not enough to monitor the water network continuously. In order to control and manage the network, it is necessary to access real-time network information. This led International Aramoon Corp (IAC) to develop its innovative Continuous GIS-based water network monitoring software 'WATCH LEAK Water Management System.'

The District Metering Areas / Zones, provides insight over the Water Distribution System leaks. DMA and DMZ provide proactive control over distribution system leaks and help to isolate the leakage area in the system. Through synchronised readings of meters at the inlet into a zone and the sum of all the metered points within the zone, a utility can know more definitively and isolate trouble areas that result in unaccounted for water.

'WATCH LEAK Water Management System' provides managers and utility operators the ability to monitor all DMAs in the city with real-time remote data readings through GIS- based Web interface application. Using tables, graphs and maps, the Web interface system makes complex data visually compelling and easy to use and understand.

The benefits of IAC's Water Loss Management software are as follows:

• Complete meter and utility data management
• Integrates with existing GIS systems
• Comprehensive data reporting with easy to read, customizable tables, graphs, and charts
• Secure, web-based administration for remote system access
• Lower start up costs, faster deployment times
• Help to reduces water loss.
• PDF printing option for the reports
• Provides real-time repair verification.
• Help to indicates general location of network events.
• Help to reduces burst rates and related damage.
• Assists in planning maintenance and meter deployments.
• Detect operations failures (faulty meters, excessive pumping).
• Provides staff and management network knowledge.
• Export all reports directed by the program to the office programs like Word, Excel and thus can make adjustments before printing.

Professor-Doctor, Engineer Gancho Dimitrov graduated from the Technical School of Mechanics and Electrical Engineering in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria in 1966. In 1973, he graduated as a Master Engineer of Water Supply and Sewerage from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia. In 1974, he became an assistant in the department of Water Supply, Sewerage, Water and Wastewater Treatment at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia. In 1986, Dimitrov became an assistant professor and since 2005, is Professor and head of department. He defended a Ph. D. dissertation in 1979.

Prof. Dimitrov lectures on 'water supply and sewerage of buildings', 'operation of water supply and sewerage systems' and 'automation of water supply and sewerage systems.' His scientific research has focused on increasing the efficiency of buildings and urban water supply systems. His solutions have been put into practice with significant economic, environmental and social impact.

Prof. Dimitrov is a member of the Bulgarian Water Association, 'Chamber of Engineers in Investment Design.'

He has to his credit:

• Co-author of Water Supply and Sewerage of Buildings, Automation of Water Supply and Sewerage, and Operation of Water Supply and Sewerage.
• Author of Protection of Buildings from Flooding and Design of Sewerage Pumping Facilities, Design of Building Sewerage Systems, Design of Building Installations for Hot and Circulating Water.

Reducing water loss by regulating pressure in water supply systems

Professor-Doctor, Engineer Gancho Dimitrov, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria

The presentation provides an overview of pressure regulation as an effective way of reducing water loss and the number of accidents in the water supply networks. Size and type of the survey areas, measured parameters /flow rate and pressure/are introduced. Further, the adopted technical solutions with control valves at output pressure, with one or two modes of operation are presented. There follows a description of the effect of reduced water loss and number of accidents in the surveyed water supply areas.

Steve France has been involved in international development for over eighteen years helping companies to produce practical strategies from employing best practice in their business.

He will discuss such an approach for NRW within the Gulf region and how working with local partners such as Daly Fluid Technologies, providing multi layered local support and using the right techniques can bring real results.

Heinrich Martin Schreyer is Head of Water Sales, ABB and also has global responsibility for large water projects. He is a German native holding a degree in electrical automation from the University of Applied Science, Hagen, Germany. He has held several positions as business development for wastewater, start-up service for water and gas. Additionally, he has been the global head of business unit water and wastewater, divisional head for process industry in Germany. He has vast experience in project management and design and been in the Army for two years.

Integrated water management for water distribution networks

In order to support effective and efficient operation of water networks and to address challenges in water network operation, a new implementation and data integration approach (integrated water management) has been developed. The approach, which gives flexibility and considers a modular concept, provides for context and situation sensitive data and information handling and thus allows operation personnel to take better and more timely decisions. A more advanced use of available data gives a much better insight into the actual water network status and also opens up the opportunity to identify incidents happening in the water supply network at the earliest possible point in time and before the first customer might be impacted.

Key functionalities provided are as under:

• Anomaly analysis and detection
  The automatic scanning and analysis of raw (flow and pressure) data using novel signal analysis algorithms enables the detection of anomalies (changes) in the system status at very early points in time.
• Risk-based analysis
  Prioritisation of alarms is done in a way that for potential incidents, the probability and impacts are assessed which are then aggregated to derive the risk of an alarm.
• Decision support
  Decision support functionality contributes in a way that near real time support is given to operators to improve their response to failure conditions.
• Pump and valve scheduling
  Using a model of the water distribution system as a base, Pump and Valve Schedules can be calculated for an upcoming 24 hours horizon.
• Improved visualisation techniques combining temporal, simulated and spatial data
  Novel ways for visualisation of needed data and information are achieved by combining temporal and spatial data in a context and situation sensitive way.

Ramuel M. Garcia is Branch Manager, Pure Technologies - Abu Dhabi. He has 28 years experience in the inspection of oil, gas, water and wastewater pipelines in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. As branch manager of Pure Technologies-Abu Dhabi, Ramuel is responsible for developing the business of Pure Technologies in the Middle East and South Asia in pipeline inspection, condition assessment, and infrastructure monitoring. Ramuel also takes the lead role in tendering and project management of large diameter potable water pipeline leak detection projects, intelligent pigging (MFL) survey of oil and gas pipelines, as well as robotic inspection of wastewater pipeline networks.

Ramuel is MERALCO Foundation Scholar at the Institute of Industrial Technology, Rizal Technological University, Manila, Philippines.

In-line autonomous leak detection system

Aging infrastructure and replacement costs are major challenges for local water utilities. With populations increasing and available freshwater resources decreasing, water and wastewater distribution pipelines need to be maintained to prevent water loss and damage to the surrounding environment. Pure Technologies provides clients with the information needed to fully understand the actual condition of their infrastructure. Based on these assessments, water supply system managers can establish a meaningful cost-savings plan for the rehabilitation and long-term maintenance of their lines.

The company introduced SmartBall in 2005 with particular emphasis on loss prevention in the water and wastewater sector. SmartBall is an in-line autonomous leak detection system which does not require the pipeline to be decommissioned. It can survey long pipelines efficiently, accurately and cost-effectively.

Following two years of development and field trials, SmartBall was commercialised in June 2007. Since then, the technology has been used to survey over 4,000 kilometres of oil, water and wastewater pipelines of different materials for many different agencies in North America, Australia, Asia, Europe, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and KSA, and has identified many leaks, several of which have been verified and repaired.

A number of agencies that have used SmartBall include the City of Calgary and the City of Airdrie (both in Canada); City of New Orleans; Birmingham, Alabama and Allentown, Pennsylvania, as well as Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA).

Pure Technologies is currently proposing to provide the Municipal Corporation for Greater Mumbai (MCGM) the SmartBall system for large diameter pipelines, which MCGM can deploy to efficiently locate losses (leaks) from transmission pipelines.

Through his career, Mads Sckerl has worked in numerous roles and businesses. These include operational as well as strategic-oriented management roles and smaller high-tech growth companies, as well as large mature companies. Mads has international industry experience from fibre-optics for telecommunications and from the pumps industry. He has held several management positions, including the position of Business Development Director with responsibility for the Grundfos group's Controls and Motors products. In 2008, Mads became Segment Director for Water Utility. In this position, he has defined the main objectives and the strategic direction for the group within the global water supply and wastewater business segment.

Demand-driven distribution system to reduce water loss

With an annual production of approximately 16 million pumps, production in 12 countries and a commercial representation in 52 countries, Grundfos takes its environmental responsibilities seriously. Aiming at reducing water loss in water distribution, Grundfos has developed a Demand Driven Distribution system. This system is based on advanced pressure management and has proven easy to implement and provide both energy savings, significant water loss savings and reduced stress on pipe infrastructure. This new system will be presented and the benefits dscribed by actual case examples.

Jose Enrique Bofill was born in Madrid, Spain in 1970. He holds an MSc degree in Civil Engineering and several post graduate degrees.

He is the Director Middle East of aqualia. He holds an MSc degree in Civil Engineering and several post graduate degrees. He joined the company in 1994 and has dedicated his entire career to the water industry, holding management positions in the technical, execution and business development areas, and having also collaborated in the field of Research and Development.

He is also an experienced lecturer, having presented over 10 papers in water events and congresses in several countries.

Radoslav Russev is a member of the Wato team responsible for service development. He has significant experience in most core business areas of the water supply business - network operations, repair works, and contract management, metering, customer service, regulatory and business planning by working in the Eastern European operations of United Utilities and Veolia Water for over 10 years..

A substantial part of his experience is in the area of reducing unaccounted-for water in the city of Sofia (Bulgaria) with focus on all major areas of losses reduction - leakage, zoning, pressure management, meter under-registration and others. He has undertaken various industry-specific specializations in the areas of regulation, tariff modelling and investment planning.

Russev is also an independent senior expert in the sphere of water and wastewater for Eastern Europe. He is a member of the consultancy network of EPIC. Currently, Russev is an MBA student at the Warwick Business School and a pending ACCA graduate.

Tools and solutions for effective water network operations and leakage reduction

The presentation will cover different aspects of network operations, but the main focus will be on the reduction of physical losses, i.e. leakage. It will initially focus on WATO's approach towards the various generic measures for leak reduction - pressure management, zoning and proactive leak-detection and repair, and network rehabilitation and subsequently, delve into detailed explanation.

In the area of pressure management, the presentation will examine the key elements of any pressure management project - from analysing the network and understanding critical points to selecting the right valves to do the job. Some specific examples of projects in Eastern Europe will be given.

In addition to pressure management, the presentation will also discuss network zoning and proactive leak detection, carried out through rigorous step testing, correlation and noise logging. A couple of slides will be dedicated to the overall operations of water networks - the quality and operability of valves, the combination of preventative and emergency maintenance, asset-management.

Ivaylo Kolev is an international water expert with significant experience in water pricing, regulatory financing, business planning, procurement and transaction structuring across the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UK and Bulgaria.

PSP to reduce water losses

The presentation will cover the role of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in reducing water losses. It will focus on IFC's approach and experience in structuring Public Private Participation (PPP) in the water sector, which contributes to significant investments in the network, increase of levels of services and reduction of water losses

Jagath Gunawardena graduated as Building Services Engineer from the UK in 1982. He has been working in the UAE for over 27 years in the area of building service engineering. During this period, he has commissioned and operated over nine multi-storied intelligent buildings for the owner (ETISALAT). He joined the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry 17 years ago during the construction of the new head office building and was involved in all the stages of the building, playing an instrumental role in getting it LEED-certified under the Existing Building Category in 2009. Jagath is also a Member of British Institute of Facilities Management and Institute of Refrigeration.

Case study of Dubai Chamber building - Sustainable operations towards energy & water saving measures in an Existing Building

The presentation will cover some of the critical issues encountered when the project was undertaken. It will be based around the following topics:

1. Why green an existing building?
2. Steps towards greening an Existing Building & associated cost benefits?
3. What are the environmental benefits?
4. Current poor practices & overcoming them

Reginald Deraed is the Group Sales Director i2O Water. Prior to joining i2O in August 2010, Reginald was Operations Director for Northern Europe, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa at InfoVista, a software specialist of network performance management. During his time at InfoVista, Reginald developed the sales operation in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, whilst assuring continuing business in Northern Europe.

i2O Water: Success stories

The presentation will provide an overview of i2O Water Solutions and detailed perspective on the company’s success stories in Malaysia and Romania.

Dipl.-Ing. Benedikt Reith is the resident engineer in the UAE for the German Plastics Centre SKZ. He will speak on how proper training and certification of HDPE pipe welders on proper installation techniques and welding skills helps reduce water losses in the region. SKZ has opened a training centre in the Middle East to certify welders according to German welding Standard DVGW GW 330 and thus, contribute to the quality on-site to build a sustainable pipe network for the future.