World Water Congress 2016 // Water and Energy Nexus

Session at the 2016 World Water Congress & Exhibition "Shaping Our Water Future" in Brisbane/Australia, 9-14 Oct 2016, organised by the International Water Association (IWA)

Where and when

10 Oct 2016, 13:30-15:00
Room P4 at Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

Speakers

• Chair: Enrique Cabrera - Rochera, ITA - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES

• Steven Kenway, AU The University of Queensland

Dr Steven Kenway is the Research Group Leader, Water-Energy-Carbon at The University of Queensland. He has over 25 year’s research, industry and consulting experience at CSIRO, Brisbane Water, Sydney Water, and government. His work focuses on the water-energy nexus and urban water management. Steven is a Fulbright and Australian Research Council Fellow. He is an International Water Association (IWA) task-force leader for water-energy frameworks, a Management Board member of the IWA Specialist Group for the specialist group in Sustainable Water management, and a Steering Committee member for Cities of the Future.

• Kate Smith, CN Tsinghua University

Kate is originally from Cairns, but has spent the last five and half years living in China mainland and Taiwan. She is in her second year of a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, having graduated from her Master at Tsinghua in 2015. Her main area of research is the water-energy nexus. Her papers have quantified energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for urban water supply in China and identified influencing factors. Her recent research includes energy for pumping in high-rise buildings, which is often overlooked but is particularly important in urban China.

• Toshihiko Tanaka, JP Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Source: IWA website