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Date: Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Conference: Third Annual Energy & Resources Conference (full-day program) (Co-Founding Sponsors: AIChE, Metro NY Section and the Chemical Marketing & Economics Group)
Venue: Con Edison Building, 4 Irving Place (14th-15th Streets), NYC
Topic: Water: The Next “Oil”
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Reserve now for this full-day conference.
Costs: $100 Members; $125 Guests; Students $50 (with $25 rebate for the first ten students who register and pay)
SPEAKERS: latest program details (as of November 30th)
• Tutorials on Basic Technologies and Issues
(Session Chair: Dr. Nada Assaf-Anid, Manhattan College)
Tutorial on Water Purification Technologies - Dr. Nada Assaf-Anid (Chair, Chemical Engineering Dept. at Manhattan College)
Tutorial on High-Purity Water for Production of Pharmaceuticals - Yasha Zelmanovich (Manager of Process Engineering at CH2M Hill)
Legal Aspects of Water Use - Barry J. Schindler (Intellectual Property Technology Lawyer, Greenberg Traurig LLP)
• The History and Future of Local Water Supply (for New York City, Long Island, and Beyond)
(Session Chair: Ariel Czemerinski, AMC Engineering, PLCC)
NYCʼs Water Supply (A Short History) - Joel A. Miele, Sr., PE (Limited Partner, Miele Associates)
Long Islandʼs Water Supply - Ariel Czemerinski, PE (Principal, AMC Engineering, PLLC)
NYC Water: Treatment for the Next Millennium - Michael Borsykowsky, PE (NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection) and Richard Peters, PE (Hazen and Sawyer, PC)
• Global Water Sustainability (Keynote Address)
Peter Binney (Director of Sustainable Planning, Black & Veatchʼs Global Water Business) on Global Water Sustainability
• Technological Advances in Water Purification
(Session Chair: Mary Lynch, Con Edison)
Update on Demineralization - Rachel Friedman (Con Edison)
Advanced Water Reuse Technology – The Road to Sustainable
Water Resources - Richard H. Cisterna, PE (Hazen and Sawyer, PC)
Microfiltration/Reverse Osmosis - Dr. Ram Venkatadri (Pall Corp.)
• Water Supply Issues in the Developing World
(Session Chair: Sabrina Hawkins, Bright Power Inc.)
Developing Sustainable Water Delivery – Lessons from Kenya - Matthew Sisul (President, New York Professional Chapter, Engineers Without Borders, and NYU, Masters in International Community Development, expected May 2010; Cathrine B. Reynolds Foundation, Program in Social Entrepreneurship, 2008 Fellow)
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