| DETAILED PROGRAMME | 1st ISLANDS WATER CONGRESS - Detailed Programme | IWRA | PAPER |
| OPENING CEREMONY - 4 SEPTEMBER 2024 | Vision and Framing | Jardfeingi and University of Strathclyde | PAPER |
| HIGH LEVEL POLICY ROUNDTABLE - FRESHWATER AND ISLANDS : THE ROLE OF REGULATION | WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE MALTESE ISLANDS | Manuel Sapiano (Keynote Speaker) | ORAL |
| HIGH LEVEL POLICY ROUNDTABLE - FRESHWATER AND ISLANDS : THE ROLE OF REGULATION | Ensuring the cohesive management of freshwater resources in the Maltese Islands | Manuel Sapiano, Michael Schembri, Henry Debattista | ORAL |
| HIGH LEVEL POLICY ROUNDTABLE - FRESHWATER AND ISLANDS : THE ROLE OF REGULATION | The History of Freshwater on Prince Edward Island - Exploring the Evolution and Significance of PEI's Freshwater Resources | Steven Myers | ORAL |
| HIGH LEVEL POLICY ROUNDTABLE - FRESHWATER AND ISLANDS : THE ROLE OF REGULATION | HLP Ingilin | Ingilín D. Strøm | ORAL |
| Keynote Speakers - ISLANDS AND FRESHWATER IN A CHANGING CLIMATE (KS1) | Climate and climate change – An overview | Andrias Klein Gregoriussen | PAPER |
| Keynote Speakers - ISLANDS AND FRESHWATER IN A CHANGING CLIMATE (KS1) | Water ResourceManagement: A Caribbean Perspective | Ronald Roopnarine | ORAL |
| Keynote Speakers - ISLAND, FRESHWATER AND CULTURE: NARRATIVES FROM THE PACIFIC (KS2) | Reflections on the Fiji in Fiji Water | Milika Sobey | ORAL |
| Keynote Speakers - ISLAND, FRESHWATER AND CULTURE: NARRATIVES FROM THE PACIFIC (KS2) | Water and the Future of Hawaii | Prof. Kamanamaikalani Beamer | ORAL |
| Keynote Speakers - HOW TO EFFECTIVELY SHARE FRE SHWATER GOOD PRACTICES (KS3) | KEYNOTE SPEAKER - HOW TO EFFECTIVELY SHARE FRESHWATER GOOD PRACTICES (KS3) | James Ellsmoor | |
| Keynote Speakers - ISLAND PERSPECTIVES FROM URBAN AREAS: THE CASE OF TORS DHAVN IN THE FAROE ISLANDS AND OTTAWA IN CANADA (KS4) | WATER: EARTH'S VITAL RESOURCE FOR SUSTAINING LIFE | Bjørn Holm | ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: A Nordic European View (RS1) | Turbidity Challenges and Water Quality Management | Sigrún Tómasdóttir, Sverrir Guðmundsson, Gissur Þór Ágústsson | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: A Nordic European View (RS1) | What happened to the water? Exploring the need for wider integration of water and rural and islands policy through a Scottish case study | Elizabeth Lawson | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: A Nordic European View (RS1) | Freshwater management issues in an Arctic island settlement – challenges and potential impacts | Hanne Kvitsand | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: A Nordic European View (RS1) | Characterisation of the aquifer in Straumsvik with respect to the saline-fresh groundwater interface | Sveinborg H. Gunnarsdottir | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Mediterranean and Atlantic Region (RS4) | Ensuring the cohesive management of freshwater resources in the Maltese Island | Manuel Sapiano | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Mediterranean and Atlantic Region (RS4) | The increasing use of desalination in the Balearic Islands: 25 years of up and down | Celso Garcia | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Mediterranean and Atlantic Region (RS4) | Water management in the Azores Islands | Francisco Rodrigues | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Mediterranean and Atlantic Region (RS4) | Analysis of Water Governance in the Canary Islands: Evolution and Future Challenges | Noelia Cruz-Pérez | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Caribbean Region (RS7) | Introducing CWUIC - transforming disaster resilience and response for water utilities in the Caribbean region | Christopher Husbands | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Caribbean Region (RS7) | Development of a Resource Management Model for the island of Martinique | Gaella Hielard | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Caribbean Region (RS7) | Sustainability of water supply for human consumption in Curaçao and Saint Martin | | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Caribbean Region (RS7) | Exploring Rainwater Harvesting Practices in a Water-Stressed Rural Community in Trinidad | Alana Mahabir | PAPER |
| Island Water Administration: Asia, Pacific and African Region and Water, Energy, Food Nexus(RS10+11) | Water management challenges on Kinmen Islands | Mei-Huan Chen | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Asia, Pacific and African Region and Water, Energy, Food Nexus(RS10+11) | Sustainable freshwater administration in Nosy Mitsio island (Madagascar): the collaboration between NGOs and the newborn Community Water Management Committees | Edoardo Bono | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Asia, Pacific and African Region and Water, Energy, Food Nexus(RS10+11) | Optimising complex decision-making under uncertainty: application of a novel multi-agent decision support tool to inform climate resilience of finfish freshwater aquaculture in Scotland | Joshua Peters | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: Asia, Pacific and African Region and Water, Energy, Food Nexus(RS10+11) | The first “very-low-temperature” geothermal district heating in Iceland? A Case Study from Patreksfjörður, Westfjords, Iceland | Auður Agla Óladóttir | PAPER ORAL |
| Islands Administration: Islands, Water and Regulation (RS13) | Islands, Freshwater and International Law: The Beginning of a Journey | Francesco Sindico | PAPER ORAL |
| Islands Administration: Islands, Water and Regulation (RS13) | Transparent differentiation between types of freshwater (technologies) in island regulation | Flore Vavourakis | PAPER ORAL |
| Islands Administration: Islands, Water and Regulation (RS13) | Comparative Study of Ownership Regimes for Groundwater Resources | Gabriel Eckstein | PAPER ORAL |
| Islands Administration: Islands, Water and Regulation (RS13) | Law and Water Management in the Hawaiian Kingdom | Kawena Elkington | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: New and Old Challenges and Opportunities (RS14) | Land use and freshwater resource management on small islands: A social ecological metabolism method | Joshua MacFadyen | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: New and Old Challenges and Opportunities (RS14) | Every Drop of Freshwater on Islands Counts for Sustainability, Survivability, Buildability and Livability | Heng Kian Liew | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: New and Old Challenges and Opportunities (RS14) | Voicing experiences of water scarcity in rural and island Scotland | Elizabeth Lawson | PAPER ORAL |
| Island Water Administration: New and Old Challenges and Opportunities (RS14) | The daily work of the Faroese Food and Veterinary Authority with special emphasis on water | Arni Petersen | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Climate Change and Water (RS2) | Climate change and legal implications for adaptive freshwater management – a Nordic perspective on possibilities and restrictions in current legislation for water planning and concessions | Gunnhild Solli | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Climate Change and Water (RS2) | The impact of sea level rise and climate change on fresh groundwater occurrences and volumes below atoll islands | Tess Davids | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Climate Change and Water (RS2) | Towards An Integrated Framework for Climate Adaptation and Water Management Regulation on European Islands | Alberto Quintavalla | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Climate Change and Water (RS2) | Carbon Neutral Islands and Water | Francesco Sindico | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Saltwater Intrusion (RS5) | Charting the future: Saltwater intrusion vulnerability along island and continental coastlines | Nicole LeRoux | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Saltwater Intrusion (RS5) | Climate change, rising sea levels and the risks of saline intrusion into groundwater in African islands | Etsong Jerome | PAPER |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Saltwater Intrusion (RS5) | Saline water incursion into Icelandic geothermal and groundwater reservoirs | Finnbogi Óskarsson | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Saltwater Intrusion (RS5) | Environmental management accounting and Environmental Accountability of water supply companies: a case study of different realities | Eva Ferreira | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Water and Nature Working Together Including the Special Case of Rainwater Harvesting (RS8) | Designing with Nature: Stormwater and Aquatic Biodiversity Considerations | Mary Trudeau | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Water and Nature Working Together Including the Special Case of Rainwater Harvesting (RS8) | Wai Governance and the Hawaiian Ancestral Circular Economy | Pua Souza | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Water and Nature Working Together Including the Special Case of Rainwater Harvesting (RS8) | Groundwater conservation and nature-based solutions. The case of springs in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain | Noelia García-Rodríguez | PAPER ORAL |
| Climate change, nature and nexus: Water and Nature Working Together Including the Special Case of Rainwater Harvesting (RS8) | Circularity of Water in Small Islands: A Case Study of Rainwater Harvesting in Ameland | Christina Natalia Titisari | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Island Groundwater Administration (RS3) | Investigation of the groundwater potential in the Faroe Islands | Óluva Eidesgaard | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Island Groundwater Administration (RS3) | The challenges of fresh groundwater at Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland | Dagur Sigurðarson | PAPER |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Island Groundwater Administration (RS3) | Enhancing Groundwater Governance: A Focus on Licensing and Monitoring by The National Energy Authority of Iceland | Tinna Jónsdóttir | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Groundwater and Innovation (RS6) | Effects of volcanic unrest on groundwater | Sigurður Kristinsson | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Groundwater and Innovation (RS6) | Managed Artificial Recharge in Jamaica - A Case Study | Geoffrey Marshall | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Groundwater and Innovation (RS6) | Innovative solutions to protect and increase fresh groundwater availability on small islands | Tess Davids | PAPER ORAL |
| Groundwater Resources Management: Groundwater and Innovation (RS6) | Drilling a low temperature groundwater convective system, for heating the school in Glyvrar, Faroe Islands with an open-loop groundwater heating system | Jana Ólavsdóttir | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Monitoring and Data (RS9) | Leveraging Interpretable Machine Learning for Enhanced Freshwater Resource Management in the Canary Islands: A Data-Driven Study | Horacio Pérez-Sánchez | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Monitoring and Data (RS9) | Multicriteria design tool for selecting Treatment wetlands systems for urban wastewater management in insular territories | Zoe Legeai | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Monitoring and Data (RS9) | Interactions between erosion and saltwater intrusion on small islands and implications for future water security | Barret Kurylyk | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation I (RS12) | How local and regional governments can catalyse water innovations on islands | Simon Tijsma | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation I (RS12) | Islands as testbeds for sustainable water infrastructure | Baptiste Poursat on behalf of William Sloan | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation I (RS12) | Decentralized Wastewater Collection and Treatment Appropriate for Small, Remote, or Distributed Communities | Holda Crocker | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation I (RS12) | CARISBAN : Cooperation between Caribbean islands for wastewater treatment by plant filters | Gaëlle Hielard | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation II (RS15) | A novel method for estimating local rain as freshwater discharge from Faroese rivers into fjords | Sissal Vágsheyg Erenbjerg | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation II (RS15) | The Role of Isotope Hydrology in Supporting Water Management in Small Island Developing States | Yuliya Vystavna | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation II (RS15) | Nanoscale Taste Buds for Monitoring Drinking Water Treatment Sites | Alasdair Clark | PAPER ORAL |
| Monitoring, Data and Hard Innovation: Hard Innovation II (RS15) | Possible mine dewatering impacts on a Philippine community’s groundwater supply: Insight from Analytic Element Method | Jayson Gabriel Pinza | PAPER ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Pharmaceutical transformation products formed by ozonation – does degradation occur? | Dror Avisar | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Using organic volatile compounds to monitor anaerobic digesters | Baptiste Poursat | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Infrared sensor for analysis of nitrogen-based contaminants in wastewater | | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Water Assessment based on AI-driven Multispectral Imaging | | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Field label-free water inspection by using interferometric phase microscopy | Natan Shaked | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS1): Technologies to Ensure Quality of Water Supply in Islands | Fiber-Based Water Pipe Leakage Sensor | | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective | Capacity Development in the SIDS Water Sector: A co-creation approach to a SIDS-focused MOOC | | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective | SIDS – what is so special about them? | Assela Pathirana | PAPER ORAL |
| Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective | Challenges of balancing commercial objectives with equitable service delivery in Cabo Verde | Helen Deise Barbosa | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective | Unveiling Water Scarcity Challenges in the Maldives | Assela Pathirana | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective | Domestic Water Supply Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Role of Alternative Water Sources in Kingston, Jamaica | Danneille Townsend | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS3): Faroe Island water administration | Faroe Island water administration (SS3) | Organised by: Heilsufrøðiliga Starvsstovan | PAPER |
| Special Session (SS5): The Battle for the Water - Exploitation of Water for Green Hydrogen Production | Solutions for Water Utilization for Green Hydrogen Production | Claus Nickelsen | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS5): The Battle for the Water - Exploitation of Water for Green Hydrogen Production | Green Hydrogen Potentials in the Faroe Islands | Kári M. Mortensen | ORAL |
| Special Session (SS5): The Battle for the Water - Exploitation of Water for Green Hydrogen Production | The Battle for the Water – Exploitation of Water for Green Hydrogen Production | Co-chair: Ditte S. Stiler Nordic Energy Research | ORAL |
