Prologue to WISA 2008 Special Edition

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Origin and brief history The Water Association of South Africa and the conference series The first steps towards a ‘South African Water Association’ were taken on 4 May 1937 in Johannesburg, at a meeting held at the Cydna Biochemical Laboratory, where it was unanimously a greed that an association would be formed with the objectives set forth on pages 13 to 15 of the Articles of the Association of the British Institute of Sewage Purification (eWISA, 2009a). The association was at the time recognised as the South African Branch of the Institute of Sewage Purification. In 1967 the name c hanged to the Institute of Water Pollution Control (IWPC). Upon the disbandment of the IWPC the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) was formed in 1987. The first conference in the WISA series took place from 29 to 30 March 1989 in Cape Town (WISA, 1989) two years after the formal inception of WISA. The second was sequentially n umbered and took place from 13 to 15 May 1991 in Kempton Park (WISA, 1991). However, the WISA conference papers were still published by the IWPC well after 1987.

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