5th IWA Specialised Membrane Technology Conference for Water and Wastewater Treatment 1 - 3 September 2009 Beijing, P.R.China Thousands of visitors are interested in Beijing’s long history of culture and swarm to it every year from all over the world. Cultural relics in Beijing, like the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Place and the Ming Tombs are World Cultural and Natural Heritage approved by the United Nations. There are a total of 7,309 historical and relic sites in Beijing among which 60 are classified as national cultural heritages and another 234 are Beijing cultural heritages. After the Beijing 29th Olympic Games 2008, It is our honour to make it a grand gathering that will carry forward the Olympic spirit, promote world peace and thus enhance the friendship among people of the world. Olympic spirit will spread in the land with ancient civilization. Learn more about Beijing, please visit Beijing International ! Membrane technology has become a dignified separation technology over the past decenniad. The main advantage of membrane technology is the fact that it works without the addition of chemicals, with a relative low energy use and easy and well-arranged process conductions.Membrane technology is a generic term for a number of different, very characteristic separation processes. These processes are of the same kind, because in each of them a membrane is used. Membranes are used more and more often for the creation of process water from groundwater, surface water or wastewater. Membranes are now competitive for conventional techniques. For advancing knowledge and experience in the utilization of membrane technology for water and wastewater treatment.IWA-MTC2009, which is jointly organized by IWA and Tsinghua University, will be held in Beijing from Sep. 1 to 3, 2009. It will provide an excellent forum for scientists and professionals working in the membrane sector of the water industry to present their work and enlighten the ways to thinking membrane each other and the Exhibition will be also performed for refreshing our mind in application of membrane technology. Please download IWA-MTC 2009 Second Announcement.pdf for updating your image of this event.