Symposium of Water and Sewage Microbiology will be held at the 16th International Congress of Microbiology, on Wednesday August the 28th, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in international conference center of Shahid Beheshti University. The first meeting for this symposium was held in the location of its secretariat on May the 10th. During this meeting, the members of the symposium who are experts in the field of water and sewage microbiology proposed some suggestions and announced below priorities to be discussed through this symposium:
1- Survey on household water purifiers and microbes
2- Amendments on sand filters
3- Survey on distribution of water in plastic bottles
4- Emerging pollutions in water (antibiotics, pesticides, toxins, etc)
5- New methods for water disinfection and neutralization of disinfectant debris in water
6- Water standard and quality in hospitals
7- Biofilm and water conveyance systems