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9th Annual National Desalination Conference – Technologies From the Basics to the Best

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

09:00-09:30	OPENING CEREMONY	HALL A
09:00-09:15	Chairperson: Booky Oren, Chairman WATEC 2007, Israel Arison Water Initiative – President & CEO Mekorot –Israel’s National Water Company – Former Chairman of Board of Directors
09:15-09:30	WELCOME Eli Yishai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Israel Gideon Ezra The Minister Of Environmental Protection, Israel Binyamin (Fuad) Ben Eliezer Minister of National Infrastructures, Israel
09:30-11:30	PLENARY SESSION : THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND ISRAEL’S CONTRIBUTION TO SOLUTIONS	HALL A
	Chairperson: Booky Oren, Chairman WATEC 2007, Israel Arison Water Initiative – President & CEO Mekorot - Israel’s National Water Company – Former Chairman of Board of Directors Jørgen Ole Haslestad President, Industrial Solutions and Services I&S, SIEMENS AG, Germany Jeff R. Garwood CEO, GE Water, USA Antoine Frérot CEO, Veolia Water, Water Division of Veolia Environnement, Executive Vice President of VE, member of the management board, France Hu Siyi Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, China James Bacchus Former Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, Chairman of the Global Trade Practice Group, GREENBERG TRAURIG, USA Mary Ann Dickinson Executive Director, Alliance for Water Efficiency, Chicago, IL, USA
11:30-11:50	Coffee Break	HALL D
11:50-13:30	PLENARY SESSION- 1 : FUNDAMENTALS IN RO DESALINATION	HALL B2
	Chairperson: Dan Hamberg, Tahal, Israel Greetings Shmuel Kantor President, Israel Desalination Society Feed Water Pretreatment for Desalination Plants David Hasson RDL, GWRI, Technion, Israel Membrane Developments For RO and Wastewater Peter Sehn Technical Service And Development FILMTEC™ Membranes, Dow Water Solutions, Germany Environmental Issues in Desalination David Procter Senior Environmental Scientist, 360 Environmental, Australia Post-Treatment Boris Liberman IDE, Israel
13:30-14:30	Lunch Break	HALL D
14:30-15:20	PLENARY SESSION- 2 : FUNDAMENTALS IN RO DESALINATION	HALL B2
	Chairperson: Daniel Hoffman, Adan Technical and Economic Services, Israel Energy Recovery Techniques Richard L. Stover Energy Recovery, Inc., USA Techniques for Boron Removal Mark Wilf Director, Membrane Technology, TETRA TECH Group INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES GROUP, USA
15:20-17:30	VISIT TO ASHKELON AND PALMACHIM (organized tour)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

09:00-10:45	PLENARY SESSION- 3: Desalination experience in Israel	HALL B2
	Chairperson: Josef Dreizin, Israel Water Authority From Eilat to Ashdod - the Mekorot Experience Menachem Priel MEKOROT, Israel From Eilat to Ashkelon and Hadera - IDE Experience Fredi Lokiec IDE, Israel The New Plant - Palmachim GES-TAHAL Yaakov Mansdorf GES, Israel
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break	HALL D
11:15-13:15	PLENARY SESSION 4: FUTURE AND ENERGY	HALL B2
	Chairperson: Nathan Berkman, Adan Technical and Economic Services, Israel New Directions and the Future of Desalination Christopher Gasson Global Water Intelligence, UK Advancing Desalination Research and Training: A Collaboration of Academia, Industry, Waer Utilities, and Government Yoram Cohen Water Technology Research Center UCLA, USA Energy Issues in Desalination Techniques Raphael Semiat RDL, GWRI, Technion, Israel
13:15-14:15	Lunch Break	HALL D
14:15-16:15	PLENARY SESSION 5: EVAPORATION AND COSTING	HALL B2
	Chairper son: Nadav Shachaf, Bel composite Industry Ltd, Israel Evaporation Techniques MED, VC Avraham Ophir IDE, Israel Hybrid Processes John Tonner Water Consultants International, USA Desalination Costing Kevin Price USA Bureau of Reclamation, USA
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break & Posters	HALL D
16:45-17:45	PLENARY SESSION- 6: R&D IN DESALINATION	HALL B2
	Chairperson: Mark Wilf, Director, Membrane Technology, TETRA TECH Group INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES GROUP, USA Pinhas Glucksrern MEKOROT, Israel Dmitry Lisitsin TECHNION, Israel Yoram Oren BGU, Israel
17:45-18:15	CLOSING SESSION: WATER FOR PEACE The Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal: Opportunities and Challenges ahead	HALL A
	Chairperson: Booky Oren, Chairman WATEC 2007, Israel Arison Water Initiative – President & CEO Mekorot –Israel’s National Water Company – Former Chairman of Board of Directors Munther J Haddadin Former Minister of Water and Irrigation, Jordan The Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal: Technical and Environmental Aspects of the Read Sea – Dead Sea Canal Uri Shani Director General, Water Authority, Israel Erez Ron Director General of the Economic Peace Corridor Project, Israel CLOSING REMARKS & SPECIAL LECTURE The Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal: A Catalyst for Regional Peace Shimon Peres the Ninth President of the State of Israel