NZAPWS Water/Steam Symposium

The NZAPWS meeting will be held at the Novotel Hotel Rotorua on the 7/8/9 of September 2026, so please save those dates in your calendars. 

The meeting will focus on all aspects of high temperature water/steam chemistry with a specific focus on electrode/electrical and industrial boilers along with geothermal process heat and power plant engineering related to water and steam. New and innovated steam technologies will also be discussed. 

We are open to all presentation suggestions, so please email the organizers at (david.addison@thermalchemistry.com)  with your suggested title and abstract. Case studies, experiences (good and bad), learnings, research findings and new technologies presentations are all welcomed. 

The meeting registration website will be live soon, and we will update this posting to let you know when that is up and running, but please hold the dates for September and get your presentation suggestions together.  

Also - please note a related and relevant meeting also supported by NZAPWS is taking place the week before on Friday the 4th of September. This is the Pressure Equipment Workshop 2026 which is very relevant to many of us working in the water/steam space and is always an excellent conference and you can do both and enjoy a weekend of Mountain Biking in Rotorua!

The event website is at the following link. 

https://events.humanitix.com/pressure-equipment-workshop-2026 

The Pressure Equipment Workshop is also intended to include a field trip to the Contact Energy Tauhara Geothermal Power Plant on Saturday the 6th of September which will be very interesting. 

We would also love for any of our past sponsors to return to the premium New Zealand water/steam related event. Sponsorship inquires can be directed to our conference support partner MECCA Concepts - Rachel Washington rachel@meccaconcepts.com.au 

The 2026 meeting is also supported by the following organisations:

The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) - https://iapws.org

The New Zealand Geothermal Association (NZGA) - https://www.nzgeothermal.org.nz