The IORA Regional Centre for Science and Technology Transfer (IORA RCSTT) sponsored the meeting in Tianjin, China from October 12-31. It also included a two-day international exhibition on water and waste water and the international conference of desalination as well as two weeks of specialized seawater desalination workshop.
The international workshop touched on such issues as crisis of water resources and technologies of using seawater, environmental impact of application of seawater, new desalination technologies, reducing energy consumption for water desalination, application of renewable energy sources in the industry, technologies of seawater desalination, extraction of brome from seawater, hybrid units in seawater desalination, development of new layers and the most advanced issues.