IWGDM website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwgdm/
Outgoing Chair: Manfred Kleidorfer (Univ Innsbruck, Austria)
Incoming Chair: João P. Leitão (Eawag, Switzerland)
New secretary: Roni Penn (Technion, Israel)
The group received two applications to become the new secretary ofor the 2022-2015 term:
Dr. Nadan H. Shetty (Assistant Prof. at the Citadel Univ, USA )
Dr. Roni Penn (Assistant Prof. at Technion, Israel)
The candidates were given the opportunity to say a few words about them and their motivation to become the next group secretary, followed by a voting. The voting results indicated Dr. Roni Penn to become the next group secretary.
We thank Dr. Nadan H. Shetty for his interest in the group and, despite the outcome of the voting, we count with his contributions to the group.
The group received one application to organize the 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling in 2025 , from the University Innsbruck (Austria) (represented by Dr. Manfred Kleidorfer). The result is announced during the closing ceremony of UDM 2022.
a. World Water Congress 2022 in Copenhagen
Peter Steen Mikkelsen informs about the World Water Congress 2022 in Copenhagen (https://worldwatercongress.org). He motivates the IWGDM and its members to organise a workshop (e.g., digitalisation, drainage to green cities), a technical session and to submit abstracts. Deadline: 17th January 2022.
b. SWMM5+
Ben Hodges reported on the development of the SWMM5+ model. He is holding a workshop during UDM 2022 to discuss possible future development directions. The possibility to have a SWMM5+ workshop in WWC 2022 was also discussed. Those interested, please get in touch with Ben Hodges (http://benhodges.org/contact-us).