CzWA

Czech professional non-governmental organization focused on water management and the environment
CzWA brings together experts, companies, and institutions that aim to contribute to effective and sustainable development in the field of water management and water environment protection.

Membership base:

  • Corporate members: 55
  • Individual members: 362
    • of which 225 are experts
    • from 165 companies

CzWA’s main activities include:

  • Exchange of knowledge and experience among members and professionals
  • Professional education for members and non-member experts
  • Transfer of foreign expertise to the Czech Republic
  • Publishing of professional literature
  • Organizing seminars, colloquia, conferences, exhibitions
  • Representation of members and joint business development
  • Cooperation with public administration
  • Provision of professional, advisory, and consultancy services

Areas of activity:

  • Analysis and measurement
  • Water biology
  • Municipal wastewater treatment and recycling
  • Sludge and waste
  • Energy and wastewater
  • Small and household treatment plants and separators
  • Drainage of urbanized areas
  • Industrial wastewater
  • Treatment solutions for extreme wastewater requirements
  • Technological equipment for water and wastewater treatment
  • Water supply
  • Lifespan and renewal of water infrastructure

Ing. Andrea Benáková, Ph.D.

Kontakt:                                           andrea.benakova@centrum.cz

Education

2002 Engineer degree in Water Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague

2009 Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and Environmental Protection Technology,

University of Chemistry and Technology Prague

Work experience

since July 2018: wastewater biologist, Pražské vodovody a kanalizace a.s.

since 2018: external teacher at Czech Technical University in Prague, subjects Water and Wastewater Treatment Hydrobiology + laboratory exercises

June 2015 – December 2022: research at the Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague

May 2005 – March 2015: researcher at the Department of Water Microbiology, Water Research Institute TGM

Membership in scientific and professional societies

Since 2016, member of the CzWA committee, focused on projects

Since 2010, full member of the Czech Water Association, head of the Water Biology Group

Publications

Number of professional publications: 1 (handbook)

Publications in impact journals: 4 (of which 1 as first author)

Number of publications in peer-reviewed journals: 12 (of which 4 as first author)

Number of contributions in proceedings of Czech or Slovak conferences: 34 lectures (of which 10 as first author), 12 posters (of which 4 as first author)

Number of contributions in proceedings of foreign conferences: 1 lecture, 9 posters (of which 1 as first author)

Ing. Andrea Benáková, Ph.D.

Ing. Marek Maťa

Education:              

ČVUT, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Water Management and Water Structures – 1989

Employment:        

Povodí Vltavy a.s.  1989 -1997

  • Water management dispatcher
  • Head of Water Management Operational Center,
  • Head of the Technical and Operational Department

Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic  1997 – 2000

  • referent
  • Head of the Water Management Planning Department

DHI a.s.    2000 – 2023

  • Project Manager
  • Head of the Water Management Planning Expert Group
  • Business Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Czech Water Association   2024 – present

  • financial analyst and PR manager

Key skills and areas of interest:

  • hydrology and hydraulics,
  • flood protection,
  • water management planning,
  • operation and management of water management facilities, watercourses and reservoirs,
  • water management legislation and state administration in water management,
  • management.
Marek Maťa

Jiří Wanner

Jiří Wanner works as a professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague in the field of Water Technology. He teaches courses in Water Management, Sewage collection and sewerage systems, Biological Treatment and Reuse of Wastewater and Technological Calculations and Mathematical Modelling. His research interests include microbial ecology of activated sludge, separation of activated sludge and processes of wastewater treatment for reuse. He currently serves as the head of the Expert Group on Urban Wastewater Treatment and Recycling of the Czech Water Association (CzWA), as a member of the Steering Committee of the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on Large Wastewater Treatment Plants and as a member of the European Technical and Scientific Committee of the European Water Association (EWA). He is an honorary member of CzWA, EWA and IWA. H-index = 28.

Jiří Wanner

Ing. Ondřej Veselý

Education:
2024 Engineer degree in Water technology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Employment:
since 2024
Analyst of wastewater treatment plants in Severočeské vodovody a kanalizace a.s.
2023 – 2024
Wastewater technologist in Severočeská servisní a.s.
Skills and areas of interest:

  • Water Technology
  • Wastewater treatment
  • Member of Young Water Professionals – CzWA
  • Communication skills
Ing. Ondřej Veselý