Welcome!

Dear IUVA Member,

As the year draws to a close, we wanted to share some exciting updates about IUVA achievements since our September Board Meeting. Your Executive Director, Regional Hub Directors, Executive Operating Committee (EOC), and many of you as volunteers have been very busy working for the organization to complete a slate of important activities in the Americas and Europe.

In the past few months:

  • Our website has been overhauled and updated. Please take a look and view the new site www.iuva.org
  • Our membership has grown significantly, from 480 members on July 1st to our current 536 members.
  • Our Paris World Congress and Toronto Regional Conference were both well-attended, with high-quality presentations and good feedback from attendees. Both events were financially successful, returning better-than-anticipated revenues to the organization.
  • For the first time, we provided PDH and CEU credits for our Toronto sessions.  We will provide them again with the upcoming webinar and will continue this as a member benefit.
  • We have created a “list-serve” site for information updates on a key technical issue. To join, go to - http://iuva.org/newsletter-signup.
  • We held a one-day workshop titled "Drinking Water Disinfection with ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT" on October, 20, 2011, in Tracy, California.
  • Last week, we held a one-day UV Ballast Water Treatment Workshop in Hamburg, Germany with more than 60 attendees.  Our goal is to do another program in 2012 on ballast water.
  • This week, we will hold a one-day workshop in London that is titled, "UV for Water Treatment: Recent Implentation and Trends," There are nearly 50 registrants to date. Visit our link at http://iuva.org/iuva-implentation-and-trends to learn more about it.
  • We have our first-ever IUVA webinar, titled "Implementation of UV disinfection by utilities responding to USEPA's Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR) - issues and lessons learned," scheduled for December 15, 2011, with an excellent turnout of registrations, over 40 to date.  For more information and to join the webinar go to http://iuva.org/iuvas-webinar-series-dec-15-2011-1-3-pm

We are currently planning numerous other events in 2012 across the globe. Stay tuned for more developments. We are truly excited about the progress over the past several months, and about what we will accomplish in 2012.

Thank you for your service as a Board member, your dedication to our organization, and your volunteer efforts. Please contact any of us at any time with your comments and input.

Sincerely,

Paul Swaim
President

Deborah Martinez
Executive Director

Andreas Kolch
Europe-Middle East-Africa Hub Director

Bertrand Dussert
Americas Hub Director