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For more detailed information please turn to the TECHNEAU-website (www.techneau.org). There you will soon find the official proceedings, as published by IWA, individual presentations and the TECHNEAU film, promoting results from the TECHNEAU case studies. Under "Publications" this website also lists the circa 100 TECHNEAU deliverables obtained so far, most of these are available as freely downloadable research reports and state-of-the-art overviews. Our gratitude goes out to the dedicated people at RWTH Aachen University for organising a pleasant and fruitful conference, to the International Water Association IWA for publishing the accompanying book with the papers that were presented and to the conference sponsors Limburg Water Company WML, ENWOR and NORIT. Theo van den Hoven, TECHNEAU coordinator Wednesday June 17 Opening session Ria Doedel, CEO of the Dutch Limburg Water Company WML and host of the TECHNEAU conference, was very clear in her request to the scientists and experts gathered in Maastricht: "We-WML and other water companies-need to invest in innovation to meet the challenges of the future, especially in sustainability. So I am asking you: inspire us to use knowledge to improve our sustainability." The over 130 participants in TECHNEAU's "final conference" took her words to heart and shared their knowledge freely, scientists and end-users alike. With still 18 months to go-the EU Integrated Project TECHNEAU ends in 2011-it might seem early for a "final" conference, but as TECHNEAU coordinator Theo van den Hoven (KWR) remarked: "there are already a lot of results to share. Holding this general meeting now, promotes dissemination and use of TECHNEAU results".

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