International Conference Urban Drainage

Delft, the Netherlands

9 – 14 June 2024

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Newsletter 2023

Read the newsletter from 2023 here. Editted for the second time by Sylvie Spraakman, highlighting the main news, developments and key events in the area of Urban Drainage.

Welcome to 2023! As you will see in this newsletter, 2022 was a year to remember for the Joint Committee on Urban Drainage (JCUD). The JCUD has once again refreshed its membership, adding Associate Professor Hanna Melini Wan Mohtar to our management committee. Hanna comes from Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia and brings extensive expertise in environmental hydraulics, water and wastewater engineering and water resources management. We warmly welcome Hanna to our team and look forward to working together.
Last year, the urban drainage community had the opportunity to attend three fantastic conferences in our field: the Urban Drainage Modelling conference (California, USA; January 2022), the Sewers Processes and Networks conference (Graz, Austria; August 2022) and the IWA World Water Congress (Copenhagen, Denmark; September, 2022). Fortunately, these conferences enabled face-to-face events – it was great to finally have these interactions, both to advance our research ideas but also to catch up with friends and colleagues.
The JCUD launched its webinar series in 2022 and we hosted two fantastic events covering the topics of real time control of urban drainage systems (April 7) and the resilience of urban water infrastructure (August 24-28). I extend my thanks to the presenters who participated in these seminars: Martin Oberascher, Wei Xu, Nadia Lund, Nagendra Prasad and David Butler. If you are interested in participating in these webinar series, please feel free to reach out to John Okedi our Event’s Manager.
This newsletter also contains three very exciting highlights: (1) The relaunch of Water Research X as a topranking, independent, open access journal, (2) Co-UDlabs Project and ongoing global call for transnational access to 17 urban drainage research facilities and (3) Pervasive Sensing for Buried Pipes. Please take a moment to read these excellent contributions and if you are interested in contributing to these research
programs, feel free to reach out!
Looking forward, the JCUD warmly welcomes you to Lyon, France for Novatech in July 2023 which is one of our four flagship conferences with topics on strategies and solutions for sustainable urban water management. Furthermore, we would love to see you at the 40th IAHR World Congress Vienna, which will
hold a key topic on Urban Water. During these conferences, please keep an eye out for workshops organised by one of our many JCUD working groups. In closing, I am very much looking forward to seeing you online during one of our webinars, or in person at one of our upcoming conferences (see Upcoming Events on page 29). Otherwise, please stay safe and
in good health until we meet again.Yours sincerely,
David McCarthy
Chair of Joint Committee on Urban Drainage