Over the last few decades, sustainable development has been the motive for advanced technologies. Membrane based technology for water treatment and waste-water treatment have been gaining importance. The recent ‘World Water Report 2017’ mentions that over 80% of the water is left untreated and released to the water bodies thus polluting them. In this connection, membrane based technologies assume significance due to the large volumes of water that can be treated effectively. This conference is an attempt to bring together experts from across the countries to discuss the urgent need of developing advanced and sustainable solutions for water and waste water treatment. The platform of IWA would give this event wide visibility specially when it is held in a vast country like India with a huge population which need clean water and also technologies for waster-water treatment.