{"id":91,"date":"2023-07-17T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.edsoc.com\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:01:07","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO WE ARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Desalination Society was founded in 1993 by our dynamic, awe-inspiring Miriam Balaban. Her mantra for EDS has always been inclusiveness, cooperation and forward-thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EDS is a Europe-wide organization for individual and corporate members, including universities, companies, research institutes, government agencies and all concerned with and interested in desalination and membrane technologies for water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a society uniting all interested in promoting desalination, water reuse and water technology. All processes are covered, and the wide range of roles and activities involved in the desalination field includes research, applications, consulting, contracting, operation and maintenance, manufacturing, marketing, economics, and legislation. Members are welcome from other regions outside Europe to join the EDS family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-white-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#bd9f4c;color:#bd9f4c\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">UPCOMING EVENTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/congress.edsoc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca-390x205.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.edsoc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NewEuromedLinkedInCasablanca.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#bd9f4c;color:#bd9f4c\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">PORTO 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#3297d2\">We are delighted to share the photographs and video of the Desalination for the Environment, Clean Water and Energy Congress 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#3297d2\">We hope you all find something you can take away as a fabulous memory of your time in Porto. 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