International Expo "Water and Sustainable Development"
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Water tribune
12/09/2008
Conclusion of 93 days of encounters with water
On the Expo Zaragoza 2008 Conference Centre stage there were four columns – the four elements – framing a large disc of light symbolising the Water Tribune. This stage set seemed to symbolise the role that was given to the Tribune: that ...
09/09/2008
“The initiatives to privatise water run contrary to the principle of social justice"
The water deficit problem is a question of waste, not of scarcity. Water is lost in inadequate usage and by the processes of industrialisation and it is inaccessible where it is privatised. These are the main reasons why, according to Mikhail ...
08/09/2008
Espinosa wants the Zaragoza Charter to be the “world reference” on water
On Monday, Elena Espinosa (Minister of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs) asserted that the Government wants the “Zaragoza Charter” – with the conclusions from the debates in the Water Tribune in the International ...07/09/2008
Production of desalinated water in Spain will increase 50-fold to 2025
The Agora in the Water Tribune was the location for three experts in this technology to explain how it works and clarify what, in their opinion, are false beliefs regarding desalination. There are several ways of desalinating water: distillation ...06/09/2008
Victor Viñuales: “Just dreaming is not enough”
“We do not own the Earth, we inherited it from our parents and, now, our children must inherit a better world”. In this fashion, Victor Viñuales (sociologist and director of the Ecology and Development Foundation) restated his ...05/09/2008
Rafael Ansón: “Cooking would be impossible without water”
Water as a unifying element in the survival of living beings and at the same time as an element with a rising value in gastronomy: these were the two core subjects around which a session in the Agora revolved, featuring Rafael Ansón Oliart ...03/09/2008
“The technology gap forces us to work against the clock in energy”
Milagros Couchod (secretary general of the Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Centre) wants to recover lost time as well as work with one eye on energy for the next century. This is her vision of energy development. As regards energy ...03/09/2008
Marine Agriculture: projects for energy and food
Marine agriculture has been what Fernando Canales, former Energy Secretary for Mexico, has championed since he found out about the Seawater Foundation project (www.seawaterfoundation.org): “When it was explained to me it was like love at ...03/09/2008
Mayor Zaragoza: “We must design a future in accordance with human dignity”
In the Agora, the former director general of UNESCO showed a firm belief that there will be a new democracy. Mayor Zaragoza believes it will be possible because there is already global awareness, because women are gaining power in society and ...03/09/2008
