Spain is promoted in Marseille as a reference country in water management

Marseilles (France), 12 March (EFE).-the Minister of agriculture, food and environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, Spanish was today promoted to Spain during his visit to the World Water Forum as a reference in the management of that element and sought to open the presence business elsewhere such as Chile or Morocco.

While recognizing that there are still “many hydraulic infrastructures” to develop, the Minister pointed to the media that Spain is “a reference in watershed management, technologies, infrastructure, and even in the modernization of irrigation”.

During his visit to the Pavilion of Spain, promoted by his Ministry and the Spanish Agency for international cooperation for development (AECID), the owner of agriculture noted for example that it is “the fourth in the world in storage infrastructure”, after a China, United States and the India.

The Minister criticized the desalination plan, “which has failed for lack of a smart planning”, but instead praised the existing technologies and can how they “be exported around the world”.

Its presence at the Forum, where will participate this afternoon in a ministerial conference with counterparts from some 80 countries, has also tapped to hold separate meetings with ministerial delegations of Morocco and Chile.

“Chase trying to open doors on the outside, maximum at a time when budgetary constraints make that public works should be slowed both at Government level and in autonomous communities”, acknowledged the press.

Cañete stressed: “management can open to projects with countries with which we have good relations and to participate with the knowledge you have Spain in the management of this resource”.

Representatives of ecologists in action and engineering without borders, both Spanish NGOs, took advantage of their presence to recall its request to amend the Water Act to include the guarantee of the right of citizens to drinking water supply in appropriate quantity and quality and that the management of the supply is public.

The Minister, as he stressed to the media Jaume Delclòs, engineering without borders, pledged to “study in detail both points”, whose recognition according to these groups will serve as example for other countries and will contribute to improving the quality of life of the citizenry as a whole.

The Chairman of the Committee of the World Forum of water, Benedito Braga, yesterday delivers a speech of opening of the Forum in Marseille, France. EFE