RECENT IWA SGMT MEETING: The committee and general assembly meetings of the Specialist Group on Membrane Technologies (SGMT) were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the IWA-2010 congress on the 21 and 22 September respectively. The following committee members attended the meeting: Chung-Hak Lee, Val Frenkel, Hongde Zhou, Mark Wiesner, Jan Hofman, How Yong Ng, Roger Ben Aim, Sarina Ergas, S. Vigi Vigneswaran.