Water is essential for socio -economic development, energy, food production, ecosystems and for the survival of human beings. It is also crucial part of the adaptation to climate change that reduces water availability: from unpredictable precipitation patterns to the reduction of ice layers, through the increase in sea level, floods and droughts. Therefore, it is necessary to implement new models that are committed to the circularity of water.
Its management in Spain faces increasingly pressing challenges in a scarcity scenario and where the investment deficit and the impact of climate change pose crucial challenges for the sector. This forum will analyze the challenges that each region has ahead of this resource and the legislative, technical and operational challenges for a hydrological transition.
Governance model in Spain, efficient management in the face of climate change, water and agriculture, technology and water innovation, improvements in the urban water cycle, valorization … will be some of the issues to be addressed in the day.
Program:
10:00 a.m. Welcome from ‘ABC’: Yolanda GómezDeputy Director of Economics of ‘ABC’
10:05 h. Table ‘The future of water’
– Ramón Fernández-PachecoMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía
– Sara Rubira MartínezMinister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Region of Murcia
– Jesús MazaPresident of the Spanish Association of Urban Water Management Companies (AEAS-AGA)
– Gonzalo de la CámaraInternational expert in water economy and professor and academic director at IE University.
(Moderation: Alberto Velázquez, ‘ABC’ collaborator)
11:10 h. End of the forum
#Water #circularity
