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Spain reaffirms its will to organize the next Ministerial Conference on water for the first semester of 2010
During its intervention during the Mediterranean session of the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul last 19th March, Spanish Minister of Environment, and Rural and Marine Affairs, Mrs. Elena ESPINOSA MANGANA, expressed the commitment of Spain to the Barcelona Process - Union for the Mediterranean, and reaffirmed the will to host the next Ministerial Conference on Water by the first semester of 2010.
On the other hand, she underscored the interest of Spain in supporting a solid Mediterranean water strategy through strengthening the institutional organisations in the region, creating and reinforcing training and technology transfer programs, the involvement in all common climate change adaptation processes and establishing a common drought observatory, which could collect suitable data and indicators of the Mediterranean region.
In her speech, she highlighted the experience of Spain with drought management plans, and insisted on the necessity of basing work on existing tools and networks, such as the European Water Information System (WISE) and the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS), in order to acquire a knowledge base that can be shared.
Finally, she also underlined the importance of new technological tools applied to water management (e.g.: desalination, water treatment or water reuse, irrigation modernization) in which Spain has made very important advances in the last years.
Full speech (in English)
| Contact information |
Elisa Vargas Amelin, Technician Assistant of the Water Unit, Spanish Ministry of Environment, and Rural and Marine Affairs
(email: at_evargas@mma.es) |
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| News type | Inbrief |
| File link |
http://www.expansion.com/2009/03/19/economia-politica/politica/1237466828.html |
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| Source of information | Europa Press |
| Keyword(s) | Union for the Mediterranean, UfM |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER DEMAND |
| Relation | http://www.medaquaministerial2008.net/ |
| Geographical coverage | Spain |
| News date | 26/03/2009 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH , SPANISH |
