Cuba favors International Exchange on Water

Cuba favors International Exchange on Water
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22 March 2017
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Near then percent of the world population lack safe drinkable water. Under such conditions, an international forum is being held in Cuba. The forum is assessing problems and successful experiences in the usage of this vital resource.

To Wang Hong, ministry of Water in China, the world needs to increase its collaborative efforts to set a new era of global governance on water. This lack of such good, which has an increasing deficit, jeopardizes the hope of development.

In their speeches, many experts recalled that the access to a safe and feasible supply of the liquid, together with a proper service of sanitation, improve the quality of life, expand local economies, and foster job creation as well as a better social inclusion.

To Myrta Kaulard, UN Resident Coordinator in Cuba, this international convention boasts a comprehensive vision regarding the challenges associated to climate change; namely, extreme drought.

Experts from 17 nations are attending the event, which includes the simultaneous holding of the 1st Workshop on Integrated River Basins Management, the 3rd International Congress of Water Power, and the 9th International Workshop of Integrated Usage of Water, to be held at the Convention Palace in Havana.

The Convention, to end next Friday, also inaugurated a Technical and Commercial Symposium at Pabexpo. Several products and technologies are exhibited by 63 companies from 18 countries.

According to the head of the National Water Resources Institute in Cuba, Ines Chapman, the word integration is a distinctive concept of the event due to the nature of its diverse analytical spaces, joined by a common view: the need to contribute to the implementation of a higher culture about rational water consumption.

Cubagua 2017, she pointed out, is the ideal space so that researchers, project executors, investors, drillers, hydraulic constructors, and other specialists may gain further experience and broaden their skills to address transfer processes and technological assimilation.

Translated by Sergio A. Paneque Diaz / Cubasi Translation Staff

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