 Hello, everyone. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. My name is Isabella Spindler and I, the Center for Management and Engagement Officer, responsible for the water professionals within the International Water Association. Thank you for everyone for coming to this online YWP Get Together. And today we will be focused on the engagement of young water professionals and the IWA specialist groups. So before we jump into the agenda and we get the opportunity to hear from the speakers, I want to give some information about the event. Feel free to post questions using the chat and using this tool to introduce yourself and saying where you're from, if you're part of an SG, if you are an IWA member. If you are okay, you can be on camera, but please do mute yourself. And you don't need to share your screen. I will be the one sharing all the presentation slides. And this event is already being recorded. And I'm going to make it available online later with also the presentation slides and any other relevant information that we might have it. So besides me doing the introduction part, we have another amazing moderator, none is here. And we will also have a rapporteur, Claudia. And then they are both from the wider place during committee and they are part of the subcommittee responsible for the specialist groups. And in terms of our amazing panelists. My colleague Rajna will be joining she is also responsible for the SG's and they are the secretary yet. And we also have speakers coming directly from the specialist group. So we have Gary of Genesee Stewart and Razia, but you will hear more from them later. And before I hand over to none, I just want you quickly present the agenda on this so you will all be prepared with the presentations that we have today. As you can see, I'm concluding this first part and then we handle where we had over to the presentation. We were here from Russia and about the, our perspectives here in the secretary yet. And then we have participation of the SG's on intermittent water supply modeling and degrading assessment, water laws and instrumentation control and automation. And finally, a part for Q&A and then the closing remarks with this, I will hand over to none. Are you prepared. Thanks, Isabella. Hi, everyone. My pleasure to be here today to moderate the session. So, over here again today we have five presentation from different persons from different specialist group. So each presentation will have 10 minutes. And if you get any questions, please do not hesitate to put your question in the chat. And we will, and we have the discussion and pollution in the end. At this time, I would like to introduce the first speaker today will be Roshna Sakhari, see the IWA membership engagement officer, a special group is on your right now, Roshna. Thank you, ma'am. And hello everyone, and thanks for joining us today. My name is Roshna Sakhari. I am working as a membership engagement officer facilitating all specialist groups activities. So, and next slide, Isabella. Yeah, so I will talk briefly about a specialist group and we have our chairs SG leaders, they will be telling you more about all the SG's and how to join them how to get engaged with all these SG's. So specialist IWA offers a range of specialist group for members to join and people from it connects people from across discipline and across national boundaries to accelerate the science innovation and practice that can make a difference in addressing water challenges and pushes the sustainability agenda. And we have like global reach, we have members across membership across more than 140 countries, and specialist groups are an effective means of international networking sharing information and skills and making professional and business contacts. And here you can see specialist groups, the engine of IWA. Yes, they're very, very important. And if you see this infographics, it shows you the whole the water cycle and our specialist groups are, you can, you will find them everywhere, all these components of the water cycle they're working everywhere and addressing the water challenges and pushing the sustainability agenda. So our members and young water professional they can join up to 51 specialist group and contribute to the SG's by engaging in discussions with other members join the SG management committee, provide support SG events webinar conference etc. So we receive so many questions how to get involved in SG's and sometimes people they think they can only the only way to contribute with SG to join the management committee and it's not true. The leaders are here and they, these SG leaders SG chair and management committee members, they are here for all the members, if you join the page you have all the 2015 hundred members, and the SG leaders are always there to support and to facilitate the activity and they want everybody to join and participate not only the management committee members they're the leaders they plan everything, but they invite all of you to join their activities. So how, and they're very self managed communities for IWA member and gathered under specialized topic which you can see on IWA Connect Plus. So how can you contribute here so you can go and join the specialist group whatever you feel interested in your area your expertise you can join the group, you can contact the chair to express your active interest to be involved in management committee meetings in an event as editing the SG newsletters we all SG's they have their quarterly annually newsletters you can submit their content and edit the newsletter. You can also express your interest to review the paper and you can, you know, ask management committee and chair how to do this and if you don't know you will learn from them you can learn from them. You can also they have all the SG's they have their publication they have the newsletters they have their papers white paper and other publication you can ask them and submit their content your content to those newsletters or you can review the papers and co-authorize the book chapters if you want. And as you all know we have SG webinars and other regional workshop international conferences you can also if you're interested you can reach out to our SG leaders and management committee members and get very actively involved in these events. People they always ask okay how to get to that leadership role so leadership role is not just easy you join and you become the management committee or chair it's not you have to work with these management this SG's and you have to, you know, get that position in management committee leadership position so that you can also participate actively in all the activities or lead the group. Also, it's very important to become an active contributor contributor on IW Connect Plus to stay tuned the latest news like you can, you know, use it as social media and you can get connected with others and, you know, start the topic and discussion everything. So thank you for more questions we are here we'll answer your question or you can email me or my email ID. Thank you. Thank you so much Nam and I'm giving this floor to Nam again. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the very useful information. And guys, if you have any questions for us now these ways until the discussion session. So, right your hand on type your question question in the chat. So, next, so I would like to introduce the next speaker. So, next speaker is Dr. Rassie Pramani. So see the chair of IWA Intermittent Water Supply Specialist Group and see also a professor of water engineering and industrial parallel of Royal Academy of Engineering and Center of Water Supply of Water System University of the United Kingdom. It's on your right now, Dr. Pramani. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here and have an opportunity to present our special group activities. Next slide please. Just an introduction for our specialist group. We work on intermittent water supply systems. What is the definition of this? A pipe system that delivers water for less than 24 hour a day or few days a week. Our main objective is to research and advance knowledge and share this one with our community practitioners as well as academics. And the overall aim is to improve operational conditions and management of these type of systems and ultimate goal is to convert them to continuous systems. Next slide please. This slide shows the management committee members of the Intermittent Water Supply Specialist Group. I am the chair. Joe Dalton is the secretary. We have got a mix of practitioners and academics in our management committee. And as you can see, we have got also early career researchers, young water professionals as well as senior academics or practitioners. So as you can see, we've got three young water professionals in our management committee. Hasan and Asiya. Hasan just finished his PhD. Asiya is doing her PhD. And Young Willow is a practitioner. They are active members of our management committee. And also the figure shows the geographical distribution of the members all over the world, especially in regions that are affected by intermittent water supply systems. So membership, if you are a member of IWA, you can join Intermittent Water Supply Specialist Group. Some of our activities, preparing reduced letters regularly, which we update our members on the activities, contributions to different events or, for example, we are trying to organize our next conference for 2025. And sometimes we organize sessions at major IWA events. Another event is taking place later IWA Congress in Rwanda later this year. So we are organizing a session as part of our activities in that Congress. We prepare research articles, material for disseminating among our members. We also try to facilitate interactions with other specialist groups. And also we contribute to Source Magazine preparing short articles. Next slide please. So here are some of the articles we have published so far in the last two and a half years. We have published three articles in IWA Source Magazine. We also, during COVID, we decided to do a survey at the committee. We mobilized and prepared a survey document to see how intermittent water supply systems in different regions have been impacted by COVID. This resulted in a journal publication which has been published. And most recently we identified a need for another collection of material for sharing on intermittent water supply, latest information and also best practice. So for one and a half year we were working on a special issue. We received a large number of publications from practitioners, from academic community. And one of the goals was as a specialist group, we were trying to not just do traditional special issues. The aim was helping the authors, especially those who didn't have that much experience with writing technical reports to be able to bring the knowledge and experience and work they have done to provide their audience. So this special issue has been finalized. There are very interesting papers from young water professionals and practitioners and academics. And already the papers are in public domain, but IWA is going to create a virtual special issue, putting all the papers in one document so you can access this soon. The journal is AgMob Water Infrastructure, Ecosystem and Society. Next slide please. Also another activity is regular webinars we organized. This takes place last Wednesday of each month at 1pm UK time. We usually record our webinar and they are available from our YouTube channel. We are also active in LinkedIn. So if you want to follow our activities, please feel free to check it. We usually encourage diverse speakers for our webinars. So we usually have young water professionals as well as more experienced water professionals present. We usually try to cover different regions challenges. So it's very diverse type of talks you can find in this webinar series. So if you are interested, please join us to collaborate together to contribute to this important topic. Also, if you are already a member of our specialist group and you would like to give a talk in one of our webinars, please contact myself or Joe Dalton and you can see the email addresses below. Thank you so much for your presentation and introduction about the Intermittent Water Supply Special Group. So next I would like to introduce the next speaker, Dr. Uth Jackson. So he's the chair of IWA Modeling and Integrated Assessment Special Group. And he's also an associate as a professor as Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation Lund University, Sweden. It's on your right now. Thank you. Very happy to be here. Thank you for the invite. Since Modeling and Integrated Assessment Specialist Group, yes, I think the name speaks quite clearly for itself, but if we go to the next slide, well, what we tried to do in this specialist group is to work together both from academia, consulting and wastewater and water organizations in the application of modeling and other types of computing tools to help understand and also to improve our different water systems. Obviously, well, the specialist group itself has quite a long history, but it was created in a time when mathematical modeling was something that was coming up. It was a new thing. Nowadays modeling is a standard tool in basically all types of work with water and wastewater systems as well as many other systems. So of course there's a lot of modeling and so on happening also in the other specialist groups, but we hope that those people that are heavily involved in modeling are then also a part of our specialist group since you can of course be a member of a number of different specialist groups. We have, we do the traditional things like we heard in the previous presentations and we'll hear in some other presentations as well. But then we have a special priority to try to engage and activate young water professionals. And I will come back to that in just a few, few minutes. And we also maintain as you know, in order to be a member of a specialist group, you have to be an IWA member, but we also like to spread our information through other sources. So we also maintain an open website where basically the same information as we keep on the IWA website. It's available for people that are non-members but still want to follow our activities. So here are some points that in principle all specialist groups should be working with, and hopefully they do, at least if they are active, with conferences and workshops and webinars and special papers and case studies and whatever you can see on the slide. So what we are maybe a little bit special is in terms of how we make use of the task groups and working groups. So if we go to the next slide there, there are obviously different ways to activate a specialist group. In our case we have some 2200 members, but of course not all 2200 members are highly active. But there is certainly like a core group of members of a number of hundred people that are heavily involved in the work within the specialist group. So in order to not have everything handled and done by the management committee, which of course is an important vehicle of the specialist group, but to also involve as many of the other members in direct efforts for the specialist group, we work with task groups and working groups. So task groups is that is normally a smaller group of specialists say six to eight people that come together on a specific topic. They have a special contact with IWA headquarters and normally have an official lifespan of about three years and in the end, they produce what is called a scientific and technical report, and is a high quality document within IWA. And also these task groups, apart from the maybe six to eight core group members, they can also have a number of of associative associated members. And in our case, very often there are a number of young professionals that are directly involved in either the core group or as associated members to to task groups. Another vehicle is the working groups, which is still working on a theme, but normally a wider theme that than a task group and the working groups are have no time limit. They are doing various effort to promote their specific theme and are normally made up of a larger group of people than the task groups. And you can see among the scientific and technical reports that are listed at the lower part of the slide that we have been the last few years extremely active in terms of publishing four new scientific and technical reports within since 2021. And we always try to do this in open access whenever possible so that the information gets spread around the world. And it also means that we have a number of those groups that have just finished, but we still have two top groups one on membrane bioreactor modeling, and one on a good modeling practice in water resource recovery systems that are highly active and still ongoing So there is certainly a possibility still to become associated members to to those, those two task groups, and also to the three working groups that we have had active right now. Then of course, we also like to have different events that that's obviously one major thing of the specialist groups, which involves both the management committee and local organizing groups and scientific committees and so on to set up conferences and other types of events. Let me go to the next slide. I just want to promote to the two upcoming events that we are organizing. We have what is called the symposium on modeling and integrated assessment short name automatics. We will have that in late September this year in Canada. And then we have our other conference international conference, which is the water resource recovery modeling seminar. We just then the water markets is once every four years and WRR Mod seminars are once every two year. One is already being organized as we talked and it will be in Notre Dame in the US in April next year. And then we also heavily started up, well heavily heavily we're starting up at this that the planning out for the next WRR Mod in 2026, where we will release an official call for organizers very very soon. And of course at all these events that that we have. We always have special special preparations and special events for the young world professionals. There's always a special one day workshop where organized and handled by the young world professionals or group of young world professionals that is kind of standard. Not only in our specialist groups, but in many of IWA events that there are, are these type of things. But yeah, that's not. I also want to, we're also organizing webinars of course we are just next week, we will have our 16th webinar on May 19. And once you get access to these slides, you will see the link and then you can register. It's a very interesting one with excellent high quality speakers on general generalized physical chemical models, which, as you may remember two slides back that that was one of the technical reports that was just published by the end of 2022. So they will now have an open webinar for one and a half hour and discuss their, their main findings. And all of you are of course welcome to that that event. Social media, something that many of us are my specialist group and others was for a long time very slow on on becoming a part of we were happy to have a website, but also here driven also to large part by the young world professionals who are much more skilled in using social media than old guys like myself and have initiated a number of pathways for us to disseminate more about our activities. And so we are, we have a special special group on LinkedIn and we have a special group on Twitter. And as I said, we maintain also an open website for non IWA members and we have our own YouTube channel as well, where webinars and other things go are available for anybody to watch. So we're not there going to go through this slide that is just a number of the points of what we do with it within the specialist group and a little bit more detailed than was on one of the first slides. I just want to mention that the last two points they are involved, which is that it is not just a matter of work and effort it is also about creating friendships and creating networks that we try to establish with our specialist groups. We also certainly enjoy the face to face social activities that we arrange around different events and conferences and so on. So those those two things are just as important as any any work related the issues. If we talk a little bit about the management committee, because I believe that if you really want to become involved in the effort of a specialist group, the best way is if you can become involved in the management committee. And the BIA specialist group made a quite a big change about seven, eight years ago when we decided that we will quite dramatically extend the size of our management committee. And we will do this in a way to get much more involvement or allow possible involvement from young work professionals. So we now have 14 members senior members and 14 what we call associated professionals in our management. And it has been a tremendous success for us, our specialist group is working much more efficiently and doing much more work than it has ever done before. With this large number of committee members, and with the young work professionals, energy and enthusiasm, we are much more active, we're much more dynamic. We can certainly do more active work within the management committee itself. Quite often when you have management committees with with only senior members, after a while people get a little bit. They have other priorities to to consider as well. So sometimes things like handling a management committee of a specialist group lowers a bit on the priorities. But but in our case we always have a large group of people that are willing and enthusiastic to take on different tasks for the work of the specialist group. And that is our young work professionals. And hopefully the young work professionals learn quite a bit during this, this period as well which can be free for five years. So, if we go to the next slide, because we have been, we are certainly working on the management committee level then to both engage and to mentor and create networks for the young work professionals. And we always work in pairs in our management committee, so there's a senior person and a young work professional working together and have a joint special special responsibility. And of course we pair, pair those two up from different research groups and normally from different countries as well, so that we get a good, good mix. And the whole thing is done to train young work professionals in leadership and managing specialist groups. And also to help help the young work professionals to extend their international networks with other other researchers, which is of course a fundamental thing for the future of any any young researcher. And quite often the young work professionals that we have are so enthusiastic that they want to stay on as senior members once they are no longer young work professionals. And I think probably 30 or 40% of our management management committee now is based is made up of previous of people that were previously young work professional associated members. We also make always a strong effort to have a very strong young work professional involvement in all the scientific committees for the conferences and events that we set up. Normally about half of the scientific committees are are made up of young work professionals. And we always do the reviewing, which is normally that the task of the scientific committee, the reviewing of submitted, submitted papers to the conferences in groups of two, also there one senior and young one young work professional that work together in in reviewing papers for for our conferences. And I can just mention that we are actively. I have not yet posted it and I have a connect and our open website but it will soon be published there that we are calling out for having two or three more young work professionals added to our management committee. The young work professionals in different roles, of course, apart from being teamed up with with a senior. One thing that the young work professionals are taking care of is to be liaison officers between the management committee and our different task groups and working groups, thereby also adding on to their, their network. The young work professionals are not the only part of our monthly management committee meetings but they also have every three months they have their own meetings to discuss activities and different things that maybe not all the seniors should listen into. I would also invite somebody to have a mentoring session there or mentoring presentation about career possibilities and whatever it may be. So there's some activities that are for the young work professionals for themselves in the management committee, even though they are fully integrated also with with the rest of the management. And workshops is the one I've already mentioned that we already always have young work professional workshops and so on. We're also working. Well, next slide. We're also working quite a lot with them. We have the next slide and so then. Thank you. Quite a lot to actively help creating some new local young work professional chapters on the national level. Canada already existed. We, we took the initiative to create one and one in Sweden and I think there is one coming up in Italy that is also created by the initiative of the young work professionals in our management committee. Also the young work professionals set up their own webinars for other young work professionals within the specialist group. They've had a number of those. And we hope to extend that series of webinars as well to to make it available for all young work professionals within IWA and not not only for for our own specialist group but we have started up on on the scale of doing this with within our specialist group. By that I just want to welcome you. If you are interested in any type of work related to mathematical modeling and all the tools that are associated with with that modeling towards water and wastewater systems to check out the information on either connect or on our website and hopefully we will see you as as members and and don't be afraid to contact me on or any other in the management committee and we will see what what we can do. Hopefully something interesting to get. Thank you so much. Dr. So, let me move on. So, our next speaker, I would introduce Peter Galli Gary Wyatt. He's the territory of IWA water loss basilic group, and he's he's also working on assisting water utility is motivation country is on your right now. Thank you very much. Yeah, so I'm the secretary of the water loss specialist group obviously we're looking at helping utilities to manage water losses within their distribution networks. Next slide. So, our specialist group, we have Stuart who is the chair who unfortunately couldn't make it today and then myself, and we have about 20 management committee members who are from 17 countries, but interestingly out of those 20 we have more young water professionals. This is the first time that we've had young water professionals in our management committee, and it's very pleasing to see that they have been quite active in assisting the senior members in doing different activities within the specialist group which I will talk about. We are active on IWA connect plus and for most of you you'll be able to join us as in the water loss group in honor IWA connect, but we also have a wider range of members over 4000 people that we actually communicate with on a weekly basis by sending out a weekly e-mailer and we get quite a lot of feedback from most of our members and what's as what's been said before probably the best way for young water professionals to get involved at an early stage is basically to go to the conferences and to meet people and to network and build up your, the people that you know and get to realize who is working in water losses in your region or even within your countries. The water loss specialist group holds conferences every two years or should I say global conferences every two years and we also hold regional conferences in the off year. So this year our regional conference was in Trinidad in Tobago covered the Caribbean. Last year, our global conference was in Prague, where we had about 48 countries attending and between 400 and 450 delegates as well. Our next conference, which will be in 2024 next April, is in San Sebastian in Spain and we're just going through the call for abstracts at the moment. And part of what we've done this year for for the San Sebastian event is we've actually got some sponsorship from a number of companies to sponsor young water professionals to actually come to the San Sebastian event. So what will happen is all young water professionals that have put in abstracts will be reviewed and the what the top abstracts that we feel deserve the sponsorship we will we will offer to them. So that's something that's interesting for anybody who's looking at is interested in water loss and interested in coming to San Sebastian next year. So our the aim of the specialist group is basically to provide leadership in the development of effective and sustainable international best practice in water loss management. We do that through promoting awareness, developing initiatives. So quite a few areas that we will be looking at. Next slide. So we, we are interested in bringing in new and young talent to the water loss specialist group as I've mentioned, we do have four young water professionals on our management committee. One of the things that we have been pushing over the last few years is creating initiatives, which I suppose is a bit like old tasks task groups or what those sort of things so what we do is we develop best practices for a number of different water loss practices. And we have young water professionals that join the groups that are doing those best practices is, and we've even got one of our young water professionals who's leading one of the initiatives on service pipe leakage. So that's, that's something that we are keen to do is to give our young water professionals a sort of like a loose reign so that they can they can have a go at some of the activities we're working in. And as I mentioned that we have those initiative initiatives, some of them are old initiatives that have been around for 1520 years, and they actually need updating. And this is why we need the young water professionals to get involved because some of the technology some of the processes are new, or have been updated since the, the original initiatives have been out. So by bringing in those young water professionals it helps with those initiatives. We also have young water professionals on our conference organizing committees. So for next year we have a technical committee and we have an organizing committee, and we have young water professionals on both, both of those committees. We, we also looked for our young water professionals to promote themselves at our conferences so in in the Caribbean, we actually had a panel discussion that was led by two of our young water professionals, which was all to do with young water professionals in the water loss industry which was a very interesting discussion and got a lot of good questions. We, as, as per the other specialist groups, we have a lot of our social media already up and running so we have linked in we have Facebook. We're already there we have our weekly email us, which is disseminated disseminated by a group called our communications team and we have a young water professional on our young on our communications team that helps. Quarterly newsletters and Asya who I saw was on the intermittent supply as well. She's on our communications committee and she helps to edit our newsletters and to send those out. We also have a number of free softwares and spreadsheets that have been developed by our members, and they are actually available free of charge for members of IWA but also utilities to download and to actually be able to manage that help to manage their NRW water losses. We, we also are the members of our water loss specialist group have been involved a lot in writing a book so we have a number of books that have been published by IWA publishing and through the water loss specialist group we've actually managed to make several of those documents into open source so we have a number of books that are open source and also books that have been translated into different languages such as Mandarin and and Spanish. This some of the software you can see here is easy calc and water system improvement calculator you can search for them on on the internet and you'll find downloads for them. We also started a webinar series we started this back in 2020 when COVID locked everybody down and like the other specialist groups we have a YouTube channel and we, I think we have about 70 webinars uploaded to to that YouTube channel and we're actually continuing with our webinars all the time. And in fact, next week we have a webinar by one of our young water professionals in India, who's going to be presenting on the water loss management in India. If you sort of like look at a take home message, especially when we're looking at water losses, there are some utilities that are the best of the best, but not all utilities can aim for that. Basically, it depends a lot on the system you have the money that you have, and also the staff capabilities that are in there so we always say it's not about being the best but being better than yesterday. And definitely the water loss specialist group and all of its members is here to help that's something we like to push the people. Not all of the help that we give has to be paid for we're quite willing to assist in webinars conferences workshops just to improve that water loss awareness and we are, we do consider ourselves to be one big family. So, I think that ends it if you if you want to you can, if on the next slide you can see that there's stewards and my emails. So if anybody's interested in the water loss specialist group you can contact either Stuart on myself and ask for more information. Thank you. Thank you so much. Great. Great presentation. And we move on to the last speaker today. I would like to introduce general see on for us. So see a chair of I w a instrumentation control and out of my automation specialty group. So I'm working on working at a video what's a clean match up as you working for see focus mainly on innovation technology innovation is on your right now. Genesee. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be with you today. And so I will read you is to use you to our AC. So please next slide. So our AC focus on instrumentation control and automation and we were basically with me three main pillars. So first we have knowledge man so we want to really be to promote the international forum to discuss to collect to change information about technologies and also experience and expertise in different aspects of the instrumentation control automation for a quite broad variety of water systems. Then we work also towards dissemination with the idea of really collect summarize and also make publish a practical experience and also research experience to support and promote the use of ICA in practice. And we also works as I mentioned before as well towards application so we really try to look to other aspects more than technical aspect we look also to the socio economic and sustainability parts of ICA. So I would like to call out that impact and the management problem how how this can be taken up by operators in treatment plants and what is really aspect of how to incentivize the application of this type of processes. Next slide. So concern our organization is quite similar to the other SG. So we are really open to all IDA members and we work with a management committee that is composed by several roles. And we have the share the business share but also we have other specific roles. So when we are around 10 IDA members and each of one have really a specific role that we have defined it. We work with monthly meetings or online meetings, but apart from that. We also have dedicated work working or installment session if we want to, for example, move forward a webinar or a workshop, or we want to brainstorm our activities to bring forward. So we have dedicated sessions for that. Next slide. So this is our current management structure. We have you will see in the top and the different specific roles that we have so we have the share the business share, but we also have roles concerning for example, the link with other SG links and roles related with the newsletter and other communication activities, and also we link with a young water professional community. And below we have several affiliated young water professional that work together with the with the rest of the of the management committee to support the different activities but they can be also a specific role for a really related activity, depending on the needs. So we have a quite a broad of different geographic location and also different profile that bring a lot of active implication in the whole management committee. So to summarize our activities. So I think it's quite similar to the to the rest of the SG. So we were trying to to date our different channels so we actively live with connects, but also in different social media that we have with the relevant groups for the group and also for the topics and what what we want to bring forward, what we want to move forward. We also work preparing a newsletter that all that information can be found in in in our SG connect page. Also we organize and support conference and workshop in different thematics of the ICA but also in collaboration with other SG I think that's important to mentioned. And we also support the creation and also the operation of different task group working groups and specific cluster for a really specific topic. We work as well organizing webinars. And we also try to encourage publication of all ICA related topics in papers and conference and in scientific journals. And we also try to link or to have partnerships and relationship with a sector outside IWA, but they're really active on the same topics. For example, the smart water network forum and others where we try to link and look for synergies. So please next slide. So you can also find us in IWA connect plus so you can look for for us over there. But if you have any require we have a person that is really working in this topic so you can see the content information there or you can also contact me if you have some questions about how to join or a specific question about about the group. Please next slide. As soon as you are member you can also have access to different sort of information so we try to put there our newsletter, but also other relevant information for the group so that all the members are aware of what we are working on. Please next slide. As mentioned before we tried to be also active in different social media we have our LinkedIn Twitter and YouTube channels. But we are most of the information we try to to share it also in the IWA connect platform together with LinkedIn I will say are the more active channels at the moment. Please next slide. So as mentioned before we work with a newsletter that we try to release several times in the year. And the type of information that we that we try to incorporate every time is really a summary of the more relevant activities related with ICA community. Also how to get involved also information on the on the latest webinar or the one that happened but also the plan for for the new webinars. Also information about project related with ICA and really all what are activities and topics that are quite relevant for for the group. Also we share any on common events, PSD thesis that might be related with the with the group and also we take advantage to share news from the from the headquarters of IWA. So it's a really a really a moment to share information with with all the members. How about the more active information or more active activities that we have within us. Please next slide. We also work towards mention at the beginning towards being active as the dissemination so for example, we try to write certain reports and what papers. This is an example of one recent one where we try to to summarize the trends on different thematic for example in innovative technologies and water and health resource and recovery and circular economy. So there was a special chapter on instrumentation control and automation. Please next slide. We also work actively organizing webinars and workshop. Through the year and used to give you an example this was a workshop organized it actually by the young water professional that was held in the ICA conference last year. So this is a really an example on how the young water professional can get involved. This was 100% organized by the young water professional community so this is a clear example of how you can you can be active in our issue. Next slide please. As mentioned before we tried to team up with the externals as well. And I usually listed the two main groups that we tried to work with so we have the water industry process and automation control group. And the smart water network forum because we actually working in similar thematics. So it's a it's a good thing to try to find out synergies and work together in the more trending topics. Next slide. So used to to give you a short closing summary. And so we try to work really on a stimulated closing the gap between the different needs in the yeah for industry and also in research but always looking through what applies solution so how we can implement instrumentation and automation in practice. We try also to to strain the synergies with other SG. Another initiative because there are really a lot of topics in common and it is good to benefit from the expertise on each of the groups to come up with something together. And we try to to work on that area as well. Also try to extend and have a more active communication through to different channels is something that we are trying to put even further and preparation of webinars and workshop for this year and years to come so if you are interested, we will be interested to put in our latest plan for for women as our show for this year in the in our different social media channels. So over there you find all the most updated information and use a few lines about the young water professionals so how how you could collaborate or be involved with us. Similarly, you can really support all the activities of the management committee. So for example being linked with the more the website or social media activities the newsletter but also you can take really strong roles, coordinating events or coordinating webinars and different type of activities that we have, you can also have a specific task in link with the young water professional relation officer, and you of course can have an active participation in the in the in the management committee monthly meeting if you are a member, but as a song of as mentioned before there are really a lot of way that you can participate outside the management committee. So it really is you have any question any doubt or yeah. If you have any interest or enjoying us please do you can use reach us directly or towards to work now or Isabella, and we will be happy to answer your questions. And to have you on board of course, I think next slide. Yeah, I think with that I thank you very much and I hope you find this information useful. Thanks for your recent station. Thanks. I would like to thanks on my speaker today's for spending your time and provide us a very interesting overview of our different overview about specific ways, very detailed into different special specific group as well. I'd like to move on to the next question question, the question in question. So, if you have any question, please raise your hand so you can ask. Make question into different speaker today, or you can type the question in the chat box so we can, I can read your question as well. So, to provide the audience some time to ask questions so I have very basic question for on the speaker today. So just see how can why WB to shown a specific group, and how bad, how to better guide why WB are the new team member to the correct specific group because like right now we have a lot of specific group and if I'm a young YWB, how do I know which one work the best for me. So any volunteer to answer that question. I can just say that finding the right specialist group can sometimes be a bit difficult with with 51 active active specific group it requires a little bit of search of actually, actually finding the one or maybe two or three that that you find most appropriate. If you don't see any easy way out of that. I think that there is some short description in some documents from my head porters about the specialist group that just gives it a little brief overview but, but still of course that that that party that that has to be made by the individual but if you have colleagues in your field, then normally that that would be a good way of finding out which, which one is probably the most appropriate. And I also think that it's a good way to try to focus. I think there's a maximum of five specialist groups or something or maybe 10 that one one can sign up for. But then try to try to focus on two or maximum three specialist groups and have had one as your priority, where you try to really be active and potentially be a management committee member and so on. That's my little advice on the second part of the question and then I can leave the first part to some other of our panelists. If you go on IWA connect you can actually go and have a look at the specialist groups, and there is a description on IWA connect. I will I know there is for the water loss so I assume there is for most of the other specialist groups that sort of describes what the specialist group does which may be a good starting point. Maybe just also to complement on that. I think you will soon realize when you have a look in the description that maybe there are certain certain groups that are complementary. And then maybe it might be the case that you are interested in joining different of them where actually you can find some synergies so maybe as the other mentioned maybe you have a main group, but you will find that there are maybe others that are actually interesting to join as well because there are some synergies and complementary activities. Thank you all for your raised attention for what it would be. Again, audience, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to raise your hand to ask questions, I'll tie your question in chat box. So, I do have one more question so I'm wondering if on the speaker, if you can provide to YWB the three men benefit or the three key boys and why a YWB should join the specialist group. Maybe I can mix few. So I think really the joining is she first is a great opportunity for networking this I think it's clear you get to really get to know the people that is really working in certain topics on certain topics, but also give you the chance to quite direct your career because because you get a whole overview of what is going on, so what are the trends, who is working where so I think that's a really another value. And also you get to know, okay, what is really going on in that topic, okay, what are the more let's say hot areas at the moment and how can I contribute. And then other other other action will be or other point is that you can really make your, your, you cannot put your, you can provide your, your, your, you can guide a little bit the direction and you can give your, your inputs on that. So even being part of the management committee or not you can, you can be quite active if you are interested in certain topic. So I think that is without I will summarize a little bit the main benefits. I think you can, you can really have something to say, and you can really guide where certain topics go, of course, in quite close working together with the other members and the community. And maybe not only creating a network, which of course, Genesee extremely important but also to make friends. I mean, I've been involved in this specialist group for 35 years and some of my best friends in the world are members of that specialist group. So, I think that's, that's an important thing as well. Yeah, I think it's, there's a, there's a lot of information that is that is out there that's been developed over the years, and by joining the specialist groups and getting involved, especially at the conferences. And that sharing of knowledge and also the networking which helps you to, to build up your experience as well so that's where I would say the specialist groups help. Thank you so much. How are you. Yeah, I agree with all the other panelists. I also think I did benefit is that choosing different specialist group you will be introduced to topics that are not very close to what you're doing. And there is a knowledge transfer aspects of that you may learn some new things that you can implement in the area subject area that you're working. So don't be afraid to join different specialist groups and try to, especially at the beginning when you are exploring which direction to go, which career path to choose. Try to join as many as relevant topics as well. And then it will guide you and knowledge transfer is big thing for you know there are specialist group on smart systems. So it can be implemented in any water related topic. Thank you. Thank you so much. How about you, Russia, you know any suggestion, the key man benefit from specialty group. Nam, can you please repeat your question. So my question will be, can you provide the main benefit or one of three benefit that are widely be should join a specialty group. Personal and career development if you're in this sector and if you want to, you know, grow no more or want to connect with all the international, you know, professionals and members. You should join these specialist group and by joining these groups you can also connect with all the SD leaders management group members chair and other members you can start discussion you can think of the your webinars with these members you can think of writing papers and journals and anything whatever you want so it's a really a wider, you know, the global network and it's very. It's a very good platform to, you know, get to know the people and water professionals here so I think of course by joining this group, all young water professional will get benefited. Thank you. Thank you. So I think I got one in from Claudia. At least feel free to ask your question. Thanks. My question, I think that's a little bit on the previous question as well. But it would be more on personal account or personal experience. What would you tell young water professionals. To do to get the best value out of being part of the specialist group, what actions or where mindset, we should have to be able to reach all these amazing results and value that you guys are sharing here now. Maybe I can, I can start saying a few, few, few lines. I think the most important is really that you, you have to be active, and you have to have a commitment with with the specialist that you choose, because this is the only way really to to make to make a different and have really a value of being a member of that. And as I mentioned before, I think being active, actually, you can first get to know what is really happening in those thematics, but also you have a safe and you can actually direct where to go. So I think really the important point is really to be active for real because you can be a member but then, yeah, you don't have maybe a lot of contribution so that really the most important is really being active. And it's something I think personal so how you see so I, you have a commitment with this okay I will dedicate some time to make this work to get my ideas to work out to bring maybe a topic farther issue for example have a special community that you will have to move further is also a good way because you can make a change or you can propose something in the in the management committee. You can also have a special workshop of special women or you have an idea of an event related with the with with the subject itself. So it's really being active where you can really have the value on your membership in any of the specially group I will say. I agree you have to be very active. I also volunteer to do different things. For example, we, at the end of each webinar we organize we invite participants, there are a lot of young professionals at the webinars as well to contact us and volunteer to give a talk. You know this is an excellent opportunity in a very friendly environment to do presentation to showcase what you are doing. So take advantage of these opportunities or the same with the special issue that we did for intermittent water supply systems. There was extra support to help people who submitted their papers to this special issue to make sure their papers will be at high quality. It's going to be excellent. The work they did was excellent but hard to present it hard to make sure it's a high standard for a journal publication. So my suggestion would be please volunteer to be more involved in the specialist groups and also if there are opportunities, take advantage of those opportunities. Yeah and because I mean Claudia it's nowhere and it's no nothing to hide that in most specialist groups I would assume based on what I know about my own and a few others that we have in many of them that there's like 1500, 2000, 3000 members. But of course 80% of those members are, they were happy to, they became members, they went into their profile, they took a few boxes of specialist groups to be part of and then that's it. They have access to other IWA benefits and so on and conference discounts and whatever it may be. But there is say 20% of high active members, at least in our specialist group, and if you want to become part of that activity then it is, as was just mentioned. To some extent certainly requires your own, your own push that you kind of push yourself a little bit into the system. But most of the many of the management committees have, we've heard it in previous presentation a young work professional liaison officer that can provide some assistance, even if you don't want to go all the way and try to join the management group that certainly still tasks that that that can be can be done, which is a great use for the specialist group and also hopefully of benefit for for yourself. But but it does require you to take that initiative to show that okay yes I want to get involved. And if you really want to get involved and try to become part of the management committee, then activity, at least in my specialist, we are quite strict. The worst thing that that can happen to a specialist group is to have a management committee that have is based on basically members that are not really involved and not really interested in the work, because then the whole specialist activity gradually dies out and we we we always keep strict attendance on our monthly meetings and we always or I was when I'm chair. People show very little activity in the first six months or 12 months because some people apply and seem very, very anxious very very eager to get started. Once that they are in the management committee kind of cops off. Unfortunately, in some cases has happened very quickly. And then they get a little bit of a warning and because there might be special reasons for them being not so active, but then after a year or maximum two years we asked them to step down. And they they they normally follow our advice because we want an active active management committee that can push questions forward and take initiatives. That that that requires activity. So, so becoming a management committee members not just a good thing. Well it is a good thing to have on your CV. But maybe that is why sometimes we have had this misfortune that we have involved people that are not then very, very active. If you are both active, and you have it on on your CV then that's that's perfect. Then you have double benefit. So, I think I have one last question for all the speaker before I move, I transfer the discussion session to Isabel, is Isabella and Claudia for the final remark to be our last positive outcomes are resolved. To be expected from IWA's Ada Horn in the next 10 years in regard to the worst environment. Well, I mean, one of the things that the water loss group is looking at very closely is obviously leakage is a big problem. But we've just looked at it in the past as more as a, as a volume of water that's being lost, but we're now starting to look at it in terms of carbon, how much carbon is being lost as well, because it's not just water but you've obviously got electricity. You've got chemicals that were used to treat that water before it got into the network and then all of the distribution costs. So we've just started an initiative after after our conference in Prague last year, which is called the leakage emissions initiative and it's basically a white paper, looking at how utilities can estimate their carbon footprint based on their water losses. And there are and then we're looking at the next step which is where utilities or companies can actually pay money to to sort of offset their carbon footprint. So this could be a way that if there's companies that want to put money into a utility to try and reduce leakage. So it could be other companies, manufacturing companies, airlines, anything really that is very difficult for them to reduce their carbon footprint. So it could actually put money into a leakage reduction program that would then reduce the carbon footprint of the utilities which they could then use as credits. So that's something that we're looking at very closely in the specialist group. And I think it's going to become a bigger, a bigger issue over the next few years. It has to complement. I guess it's the same for other SC but we try to really focus on the practical side so how to bring forward research really to to application how to close that gap. And I think that's quite relevant for the years to come. In our case where we talk about instrumentation automation, there are really big challenges when you go really to the real world. So we try to move as well in the direction to make things more tangible and really another value to the society and to the industry. So really to how to bring forward what happened in the academic war really to practice. So I think that that that must be the case also for all the SG. And I guess this is really one of the important outcomes of to towards the years to come, I would say. Maybe, I think your question was also I w a as a whole. So, no, no, no, no, not maybe only the explicit specialist groups the. Because I mean with with 35 years of membership in a way, we have seen different initiatives at different points at some periods I w a has been more focusing on its core activities. And in other periods, it has been more outward searching to be a player on the international arena, in terms of discussions with UN and other big organizations. And it is my mind you that with with the executive executive director. We have now and also with Tom mollincop as the chair of I w a it's a and it is on the out searching connections with with with the outside to become or to be a player in. It comes to not making the decision but suggesting solutions for decision makers on on a high level, because I mean we know that even even if at some point we find it's difficult to find financing for projects and so on but we know that in 1020 30 years water bill will be a huge problem. We have the whole climate water energy nexus and also food production that that comes together and without water we have nothing. So, so I see from a from a research perspective and development perspective I see great things happening in the water sector, but maybe based on on that we get major global problems, which is, of course unfortunate. And I think if there are no other interventions we can go ahead with our agenda and give the final remarks close out this event. I believe we have listened. We shared all the experiences and we realize how specials groups are not only a great way to get involved with I w a, but also it's an entry door to the different sectors and specialties within water, and the great opportunity to expand our national networks, our network of friends of colleagues, and to get some mentorship that when we are starting out as young professionals is always available, and also clear the path for the next wide of these there are currently a lot of people who are working or finishing their undergrads so it's also an opportunity to get that experience with leadership events with the sort of organization, and also, one thing I want to, to make sure we are aware is that we as young water professionals are valued as professionals as well, we, our knowledge expertise experiences are valued within the specialist groups that we're not there only to learn but also to contribute to the discussion as we we've heard from the chairs of the different groups that that presented their work. And also there are more ways to get involved aside from being part of the management committee, depending on the time you have available to participate. There are review papers, publications, the source magazine journals, specializations events, a whole host of webinars and different conferences, and also one thing that I always like to reinforce is that this is not only for our career academics but also practitioners. This is the place where all of us that are involved in the water sector come together to share experiences, and I love to hearing about the mentorship training programs within the modeling and assessment specialist group, the different ways we can work as translators of knowledge, be it languages or regarding translate sort of in generations as well. And it's a great way to keep updated on the latest developments and invasions. And to close out this session, what I would say is the specialist groups are a great opportunity for career advancement but as we saw, you get out what you're going to put in as well. So if you put the dedication in, I'm sure your objectives will be met and you will get all these values that we've heard from our speakers today. Thank you, Claudia, for presenting this summary of what we have discussed it. So before we conclude it, I just want to highlight some of the upcoming IWA events. So we will have an webinar on waterproof in partnership with the water emergency, and then we have on air for reservation with brand water. And finally, our webinar on safely managed sanitation in partnership with the World Health Organization on this. And, of course, that I have to highlight that we have our Water and Development Congress and exhibition this year in Kigali in Wanda. So do scan this QR code so you can find more information about the event and how you can submit it and be part of it. And finally, as we have received some information, some questions about information about the membership. I prepared this quick list slide on the membership fee. So you can definitely see that we have a difference if you are in a high income country in our low income country. And if you are a young water professional, please do use the discount code that you're seeing in your slides so you can receive a 20% discount off in your membership. And finally, thank you everyone for coming. Thank you for the speakers, the moderator and the rapporteur for being a part of this, why they're together, and I hope that you can see you all in our next online events. So take care and have a nice weekend, everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye bye. Thank you. Bye everybody. Thanks a lot. Bye everyone. Thanks.