Technical Program
Congress Themes
Technical Programme runs from Monday, 21 October to Thursday, 24 October 2024. Each morning and afternoon, a 30-minute plenary session is planned. The regular Technical Programme will take place in parallel sessions. Other activities, such as round tables, workshops, a student programme, short courses, and special sessions, will also be scheduled.
The Congress will address the broader context of arsenic research along the following themes (but not only be restricted) to the following themes:
Theme 1: Arsenic in natural environment
- Sources, dynamics, transport, and fate of arsenic in groundwater systems
- Origin and reactivity of organic matter in high arsenic groundwater systems, mine waste, and tailings
- Biogeochemical processes controlling arsenic mobility and redox transformation
- Impacts of climate change on groundwater arsenic and other redox-sensitive elements
- Arsenic and other trace elements in Indian riverine ecosystems
- Arsenic mobility and fate in contaminated soils and sediments, dust, and road deposits
- Advances in arsenic analysis in solid and aqueous matrix
- Arsenic and their interactions with co-occurring pollutants/emerging contaminants with respect to surface water-groundwater interactions
Theme 2: Arsenic in food and agricultural ecosystem
- Processes and pathways of arsenic in agroecosystems
- Microbial ecology of arsenic biotransformation in soils
- Arsenic dynamics in rhizospheres molecular mechanisms of plant arsenic uptake
- Arsenic in marine biota
- Speciation and toxicity of arsenic in food chain
Theme 3: Health perspectives of environmental arsenic
- Exposure and epidemiology of arsenic on human health
- Arsenic exposome
- Genetic predisposition of chronic arsenic poisoning
- Neurophysiological and IQ impacts of arsenic
- Reliable biomarkers for arsenic exposure
- Risk assessment of chronic ingestion
- Multi-metal synergies in chronic exposure cases
- Impacts of COVID-19 on arsenic-exposed population
- Assessment of global burden of arsenic in drinking water and health care systems
- Longitudinal evaluation of health impacts of arsenic
Theme 4: Advancements in clean water technologies for arsenic removal and immobilization
- Adsorption and co-precipitation for arsenic removal
- Ion exchange and membrane technologies
- Nanotechnology applications in arsenic treatment
- Arsenic solidification and immobilization for contaminated soils
- Phytoremediation of arsenic-contaminated soils
- Innovative technologies
Theme 5: Sustainable mitigation and management
- Policy tools and gaps for regulation of arsenic exposure
- Risk assessment and remediation of contaminated land and water environments
- Societal keys for mitigation of long-term exposure
- Drinking water regulations of water safety plan
- Implementation plan for safe drinking water supply for sustainable development perspectives
Special Sessions
This congress covers legacy (trace elements, organic and inorganic pollutants, etc.) and emerging contaminants (micro/nano-plastics, per- and polyfluorinated substances, endocrine disrupting chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.) but is not limited to the following topics:
Session 1: Source and distribution of pollutants in different natural settings
- Origin and reactivity of pollutants in soil and water
- Biogeochemical processes controlling mobility and redox transformation
- Impacts of climate change on groundwater pollutants and other redox-sensitive elements
- Interactions of geogenic contaminants with emerging pollutants in natural systems
Session 2: Advancements in clean water technologies for pollutant removal and immobilization
- Adsorption and co-precipitation for pollutant removal from soil and water ecosystems
- Ion exchange and membrane technologies
- Nanotechnology applications in pollutant treatment
- Pollutant solidification and immobilization for contaminated soils
- Phytoremediation of contaminated soil and sediments
- Disinfection by-products process and techniques
Session 3: Pollutants in dietary systems and health perspectives
- Intake and pathways of pollutants in agroecosystems
- Soil microbial ecology and dynamics of pollutants biotransformation in soils
- Conventional and emerging contaminants in soil-water interface and biota
- Speciation and toxicity of contaminants in food chain and risk assessment
- Threshold values of emerging contaminants in food
- Assessment of contaminant burden in drinking water and health care systems
Session 4: Policies and sustainable management of pollutant
- Policy instruments and gaps for regulation of pollutant exposure
- Risk assessment and remediation of contaminated land and water environments
- Public intervention for mitigation of long-term exposure
- Drinking water supply & regulations of water safety plan
- Pollutants in drinking water for safe and clean water supply from sustainable development perspectives
Session 5: Sensors, innovation, technologies, and artificial intelligence for pollution monitoring and management
- Field-based efficient sensors in contaminants analysis
- Low-cost industrial-scale technologies for wastewater treatment and management
- Modelling tools
- Advancement in remediation techniques
- Application of artificial intelligence in pollution control and detection
- IoT-based artificial intelligence in wastewater treatment