ABSTRACT
Invited presentations 2007−2009 x Environmental impact and impact assessment of desalination plants. Stichting
PostAcademisch Onderwijs, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, June 2006.x Why we need environmental impact assessment studies. Exhibition and Congress on Chemical Engineering, Environmental Protection and Biotechnology (ACHEMA), Session on desalination, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2009.x Environmental aspects of desalination. Symposium of the German Desalination Society (DME) on Thermal Desalination, Essen, Germany, January 2008.x Desalination plant impacts on the marine environment. AQUA 2008 Conference, Valencia, October 2008.x Environmental issues in desalination. EXPO Zaragoza 2008, Thematic Week 10, New Water Resources: Reuse and Desalination, Zaragoza, Spain, September 2008.x Seawater desalination in the Mediterranean − solution to the region’s water woes? Seminaire International sur le Dessalement des Aux − Percees Technologiques et Maitrise des Couts, SONEDE, Tunis, July 2008.x Water environmental aspects. Symposium of the German Desalination Society (DME) and Solar Institute Ju¨lich (SIJ) on Desalination and Renewable Energies, Ju¨lich, Germany, June 2008.x Desalination’s environmental footprint. International Desalination Association (IDA) and Global Water Intelligence (GWI) Conference on Water, Finance & Sustainability, New Directions for a Thirsty Planet, London, UK, April 2008.x Desalination projects − a need for environmental impact assessment and impact mitigation. Wetsus Technological Top Institute for Water Technology, Inaugural Congress, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, October 2007.x Environmental impact and impact assessment of seawater desalination plants. European Desalination Society (EDS) Conference on Desalination and the Environment, Halkidiki, Greece, April 2007 (keynote).
