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New Water Policy and Practice LuWQ-2015 - 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Land Use and Water Quality: Agricultural Production and Environment: September 21-24, Vienna L uWQ2015 is an international and interdisciplinary conference on the cutting edge of Science, management and policy to minimize effects of agriculture and land use changes on the quality of groundwater and surface waters to be held in Vienna, Austria from 21-24 September 2015. The aims of the conference are to discuss the entire policy cycle for water quality improvement. This cycle includes problem recognition, formulation of technical options, the process of policy development, interaction with policy makers, stakeholders and pressure groups, policy implementation, monitoring and research. The conference hopes to focus on topics such as Agronomy, Agroeconomics, Agro-sociology, Water Management, Water Policy, Hydrology, Aquatic Ecosystems, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Unsaturated Zone, Groundwater, Surface Water, Drinking Water, Monitoring, Modelling, Water Quality, Nutrients, Pesticides and other Organic Agro-chemicals, Heavy Metals etc. Further information is available at : http://web.natur.cuni.cz/luwq2015/, or by contacting Karel Kovar via email: [email protected] 88