Call for Abstracts

2025 Technical Conference

August 11-14 - Cleveland, OH

OAWWA and OWEA are excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the 2025 One Water Technical Conference is now open! The conference is August 11-14 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, OH.

We are looking to provide our members and conference attendees with a unique opportunity for professional development and educational opportunities for both the water and wastewater industries at the same time. We have selected the technical topics listed to the right for our concurrent technical program to cover the educational goals of this joint conference.

Abstracts should include concise information and must be a minimum of 400 words and no more than 600 words. This information will be used to review and select presentations for the conference technical program. Submissions that do not meet the above requirements will automatically be disqualified.

This is a highly competitive selection process. The acceptance rate for past One Water events is between 25-30%. Here are some tips and best practices to help your submission have a competitive advantage.

• For consultants and service providers, consider partneringwith a utility or municipality on an ongoing project orcase study.
• For vendors wanting to showcase a product, thepresentation must be technical in nature. Sales pitches, or commercials, will not be selected.
• For new technologies and/or processes, consider a case study with an Ohio utility or municipality.
• Chosen presenters will be required to register for the conference if they intend on attending ANY part of the conference outside of their own presentation.

Please note that any submissions not following the stated guidelines will not be considered.

Presentation time slots are 45 minutes long.

Note: Primary presenters will be notified either way of the status of the submission by April 15, 2025

The deadline to submit is Friday, January 10, 2025.

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Technical Topics:

• Asset Management
  
• Biosolids
  
• Corrosion Control
  
• Construction/Design Build
  
• Customer Service
  
• Drinking Sourcewater
  
• Ethics
  
• Efficiency/Sustainability
  
  • Energy
    
  • Green Tech
• Emerging Technologies
  
• Lab
  
• Lead
  
• Leadership
  
• Diversity & Inclusion
  
• Nutrients
  
• Operations/Maintenance
  
• PFAS
  
• Pretreatment
  
• Regulatory
  
• Residuals/Recovery
  
• Stormwater/Watershed
  
• Utility Management
  
• Wastewater Collections
  
• Wastewater Treatment
  
• Water Distribution
  
• Water Treatment
  
• Workforce Development