Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

We thank you for your support at our 2011 events and look forward to seeing you in 2012.

Take a look at our 2012 events and don't forget to book early to get your 'early bird' discount.  Why not book before your Christmas break..........

SWIG's 2012 workshop programme is as follows:

1 February: Contamination Risk Management & Drinking Water Security (Siemens, Manchester)
29 February: Effluent Flow Monitoring & CSOs (Hereford Waterworks museum)
18 April: Bathing Waters:current & future environmental monitoring requirements (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
16 May: Measurement Traceability (NPL, Teddington)
20 June: Leakage Monitoring (SciSys, Chippenham)

Further details of each workshop here. 
Book early to ensure you receive your 10% 'early bird' discounts.

The SWIG 'Early Career Researcher's Prize' competition will be launched in the spring of 2012.  This poster competition is intended to raise awareness of technological developments and novel applications related to water measurements, thereby promoting innovation in sensor research and commercial application.  The competition will be open to under-graduates and post-graduates in full-time education or within the first 4 years of employment.  It was last run in 2010, with James Shucksmith of the University of Sheffield taking away the top prize.  The 2012 prize winner will be announced at the WWEM 2012 conference and exhibition (see news item below).

WWEM is a specialist event for the water, wastewater and environmental monitoring community.  WWEM 2012 will be held on the 7th & 8th November in Telford (see WWEM website for details).  SWIG will be working with WWEM in two ways:

·         Short-listed entries to our 'Early Career Researcher's Prize' will be displayed at the exhibition and we will announce the prize winner at the WWEM Gala Dinner.

·         We will be hosting an area where academia and industry can meet to discuss collaborative working.

Watch out for further announcements in the New Year.

SWIG has negotiated the following member discounts for 2012 events:

Water Loss UK, 26 & 27 March, NEC, Birmingham: The seminar of 27 March will focus on initiatives in Europe and further afield and consider any impact on future direction of leakage management in the UK.  The theme of the pre-seminarworkshop on 26 March is 'Using smart systems to better understand water loss'.  10% SWIG member discount on delegate fees.  See event website for further information. 

Sustainabilitylive! (incorporating IWEX), 22-24 May, NEC, Birmingham:  IWEX is the UK's biggest dedicated exhibition for the water and effluent industry.  IWEX 2012 will bring together water companies, contractors, consultants, industry and manufacturers and is the perfect place to showcase your technologies and services.  See event website for further information.  SWIG members receive a discount on stand space of £20 per m2 (shell scheme) and £20 per m2 (space only).  Contact Staceybird@fav-house.com.

Our last SWIG membership survey was undertaken in 2010 and resulted in changes to the events and services offered.  For example, members expressed a desire for a 2-day event and we went on to hold our first 2-day conference in Nottingham in September of this year (we hope that this will be a biennial event).  Our recent workshop topics have also taken into account member suggestions and we now issue regular e-newsletters.  We will be repeating our membership survey in the spring of 2012 and look forward to your feedback and suggestions.

A warm welcome to new 'Corporate' members who have joined SWIG in the past 3 months:

Aquaread Ltd
University of Birmingham
University of Manchester
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

And to our new 'Individual' members:

John Kupczak and Willy Shuldt of Sigrist-Photometer
Ian Griffiths of Aqua Metrology Systems Ltd
Paul Edwards of Processplus Ltd
Gulbarg Singh of Enzen Global Ltd
Marcus Fisher of Nivus