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Scenery in Slovakia’s High Tatras Mountains

Zdar Boh and Glückauf to the

16th International Mine Water Association Congress

Meet the IMWA fam­ily and your mine water col­leagues to net­work at this IMWA Con­gress from 6 – 9 Septem­ber 2027 at the Double­Tree by Hilton Hotel, Košice, Slov­akia.

Hot topics to be discussed during the Congress

Post-Mining Legacy

Man­aging aban­doned and flooded mines as long-term water bod­ies, includ­ing flood­ing, first flush, strat­i­fic­a­tion and clos­ure risks.

AI-supported monitoring

Using mon­it­or­ing, mod­el­ling and AI to pre­dict mine-water beha­viour under chan­ging cli­mat­ic, land use and clos­ure con­di­tions.

Circular Economy & Recovery

Recov­er­ing use­ful water, heat, metals or treat­ment by-products from mine water, tail­ings water and treat­ment residues.

Smolník, Slovakia

Congress Topics

Sev­er­al Top­ics cov­er­ing all aspects of min­ing-influ­enced water will be avail­able dur­ing the 16th IMWA Con­gress in Košice.

Workshops

High-cal­ibre mine water experts will present their exper­i­ence and teach innov­at­ive tech­niques.

Mid and Post Congress Field Trips

Dur­ing our mid-con­fer­ence field trips and one post-con­fer­ence field trip, del­eg­ates will be intro­duced to mine water sites in Slov­akia.

Impressions from past IMWA Conferences

“I am look­ing for­ward to this con­gress, where we can show the world our Slov­ak min­ing leg­acy and the oppor­tun­it­ies we see for the future.”

Zuz­ana Bártová
Con­fer­ence Chair

“I am pleased that the 16th IMWA Con­gress will be organ­ised in one of the tra­di­tion­al min­ing centres of Europe and that we will vis­it the fam­ous Banská Štiavn­ica.”

Chris­ti­an Wolk­ersdor­fer
Con­fer­ence Co-Chair | IMWA Pres­id­ent

“I am pleased that the Inter­na­tion­al Mine Water Asso­ci­ation decided to come to Slov­akia and the Slov­ak Academy of Sci­ences in 2027.”

Sla­vomír Hredzák
Dir­ect­or, Insti­tute of Geo­tech­nics SAS

Mine Water in a Changing World – From Challenges to Shared Solutions

Join the glob­al mine water com­munity in Košice, Slov­akia to share know­ledge, dis­cuss prac­tic­al solu­tions and explore how sci­ence, tech­no­logy and respons­ible man­age­ment can address the chal­lenges of act­ive and aban­doned mines.