Water Tribune: Advancing Solutions for Water Management

1. Informal Meeting of EU DirectorsPreparation of Zaragoza 2008A briefing on contents: The Water Tribune Eduardo Mestre Director, The Water Tribune Expo Zaragoza 2008

2. Water Tribune • The Water Tribune is essential to yield an Expo 2008 legacy, through contributions to improve water management, derived from debates by experts, water managers, politicians, journalists and society. • The Water Tribune concentrates efforts in finding solutions to crucial issues and problems. • The Water Tribune will allocate less time to diagnosis to favour debates and consensus via a problem solving approach. • Through 14 crucial themes, the Water Tribune will help: • Unleashing knowledgethrough scientific, social, economic, institutional, legal and environmental issues • Contributing to sharing knowledge, methodologies, lessons learned, good practices, replicable experiences, recommendations and innovative initiatives and projects • Transforming the paradigm on water and sustainable development. • Highlighting Sustainable water resources experiencesfrom countries and regions.

3. MAIN INSTRUMENTSWater Tribune • 8 Thematic Weeks • International Symposium on Water and Sustainability • 42 Scientific and Technical Parallel Events organized by third parties with Expo / Water Tribune support • VIP documents by strong international voices, such as Michail Gorbachov, Al Gore, Nelson Mandela, Jeremy Rifkin, Nicholas Stern, Susan George, Vandana Shiva. • 8 Expert / Scientific Documents regarding the fourteen themes chosen by Water Tribune to be addressed through its instruments • 192 scientific manuscripts written by distinguished experts on water resources and sustainability • The Agora, an instrument fully dedicated to the general public. • The Charter of Zaragoza, comprising results, solutions and proposals derived from Expo 2008,replacing old visions on water sustainability, encouraging individuals, entities, private enterprises and individuals worldwide to embrace the new paradigm Water Tribune Main Instruments:

4. SOME RELEVANT PARTNERSHIPSWater Tribune Some Water Tribune partnerships: • The World Bank, • supporting a Virtual Pavilion to help poor countries in participating at Expo through virtual technologies. • supporting key water stakeholders participate in the Thematic Weeks and • participating in the production of several technical documents regarding the Water Tribune Findings and Proposals. • The InterAmerican Development Bank, • Supporting several case studies from Latin American countries to be shared and debated at the Water Tribune • Participating in the production of technical documents, as well • Other Key Partnerships are being negotiated

5. THEMATIC WEEKSWater Tribune

6. WATER TRIBUNE PAVILIONWater Tribune Water Tribune Pavilion • Water Tribune activities will be held at its pavilion, located in the heart of Expo2008, with 830 m2 and excellent facilities in an inviting atmosphere to host up to 300 participants. Three other venues are also available. • Participant countries and Spanish Autonomies will enrich the contents of Water Tribune activities and instruments. • Contributions will also include books and reports on water matters, art, etc.

7. PARALLEL EVENTSWater Tribune • First International Conference “Droughts Management” • Rosenberg Forum, “Water for Food: Quantity and Quality in a Changing World” • International Seminar “Water Management in Federal Countries” • International Forum “Grapevine and Wine as Element of Sustainable Development in Dry Countries” • International meeting “Water, Landscape and Sustainable Development” • Encore 2008. 8th Environment Conference of the Regions of Europe – “Water and Climate Change” • Meeting “Public Participation Processes in Water and Landscape Protection” Scientific and Technical Parallel Events:

8. PARALLEL EVENTSWater Tribune • First Coordination Meeting of Regional Initiatives for the RAMSAR Agreement • VIII National Congress of the Spanish National Society of Electro medicine and clinical engineering “Clinical Engineering and Sustainable Development” • European Union Symposium “Investigation Projects Related with Water and Sustainable Development Funded by the Research Directorate” • Summer School “Construction and Management of Wastewater Treatment Plants” • Major Event “Drinking Water Access, Universal Citizen Right” • Major Session “Comparative Law in Water and Sustainable Development” • II International Congress “Oasis and Sustainable Development” • VII National Congress on Desalinization and Water Reutilization “Water forever” Scientific and Technical Parallel Events:

9. AGORAWater Tribune Agora: • An instrument fully dedicated to the general public, allowing Expo visitors to be in touch with: • Water experts, • Politicians, • Artists, • Writers, and • Mass media people • … Enhancing their acquaintance on water issues and solutions.

10. THE WATER TRIBUNE HAS FIVE COMMITTEES AND COUNCILSWater Tribune • An international Committee chaired by BIE • A Direction Committee chaired by Expo • A Consultative Scientific Council • A Coordinating Council • An Experts Pool Malin Falkenmark Antonio Embid Irujo Raymundo Garrido Pedro Arrojo Jean François Donzier Dominique Berthone Naol Mary Gustavo Ortíz Víctor Viñuales Erasmo de Alfonso Gerard Payen Leandro Amargos Ángel Aparicio Juan López Martos Henry Vaux José Manuel Moreno Ramón Folch Domingo Jiménez Beltrán Josefina Maestu Matías Prieto Helena Caballero Khalid Mobdatullah Ramón Llamas José María Santa Fe Alberto Garrido Abel Lacalle Víctor Viñuales Miguel Antolín Joaquín Rodríguez Chaparro Axel Julié Pierre Victoria Dalto Favero Brocchi Inés Restrepo Rocío Córdoba Luis García Enrique Aguilar Mauricio Castro Fedroz Varga Miroslav Jakorsky Axel Dourojeann Carlos Aguilar Ec Alberto Garrido Milagros Couchaud Alberto Fraguas Monica Porto Jerson Kelman Benedito Braga Vinicius Benavides Paulo Romano Luiz Amore Luis Gabriel Azevedo Alberto Palombo Maria do Carmo Zinata Joao Bosco Serna Carlos Fernández Jáuregui Manoela Moreira Julio González Aguirre María Elena Cabrera Inés Restrepo Patricia López Ventura Bengoechea Abel Mejía Gustavo Saltiel Luis Poggi Jamal Saghir Amal Talbi Johan Grijsen Ariel Dinar Anders Berntell Pierre – Alain Roche Romina Picolotti José Angel Vargas Andrej Jouralev Miguel Solanes Manuel Urquiza Josué Hernández Eduardo Viesca José Albiac Alvaro Aldama Polioptro Martínez Felipe Arreguín Mario López Fernando J. González V. José Luis Alonso Tomás Sancho Juan Manuel Aragonés Emilio Custodio Juan Manuel Barandiarán Martha Puente Javier Celma Guillermo Enrique Ortega Michel Rosengaus Anada Tiega Meike Van Ginneken Torkil Josch Clausen Luitsen Biljsma Jan Lundqvist Asit Biswas Carlos Aguilar Es Victor Oceguera Emiliano Rodríguez Peter Rogers John Briscoe Lydia Oblitas Jorge Hidalgo Toledo Carlos Salazar John Pernetta Roberto Lenton Juan Carlos Valencia José Antonio Llanos Blasco Löic Fauchon Daniel Zimmer Fernando Rueda Efraín Rueda Diego Rodríguez Diego Bravo Luis Segui Adrián Baltanás Pedro Arrojo Luis Jiménez Stefano Burchi Miguel Antolín Ivan Cheret Cecilia Tortajad Gualberto Limón Martin Burton Jerome Delli Priscoli Madeleine Thompson Andreu Chang Carl Bauer Isabelle Vanderbeck Philippus Wester Manfred Matz Robert Sandford Douglas Ongley Kenzo Hiroki Ethne Davey Anna Matros-Gorese, Sekou Toure Hideki Oda María Antonieta Castro José Castro Jorge Castro Abonce Javier González V. Alejandro Hitcher Javier del Moral Cristóbal Francisco Rodolfo Roa Carlos Sales Jorge Carlos Saavedra Shimidzu Arturo Jiménez Ramón Héctor Pérez Morales José Luis Calderón Bartheneuf Martin Stanton Alain Bernard María Elena Corrales Carlos Morelli Tucci Humberto Peña Armando Llop Armando Bertranou Ahmed Ahmed Goueli Michael Otieno Dong Zheren Qian Yi Chaoquing Yu Dixon Nilaweera M. Gopalakrishnan E. Patil Ashok Subramanian Ayman Rabi John Briscoe Peter Millington John J. Pigram Shaul Arlosoroff Pablo Jaeger Raúl Artiga Luis Moncada Jorge Benites Agüero David Michaud Ernesto Sánchez Triana Jaime Palop César Herrera Toledo Karin Kemper Michael Carroll Oliver Stone María Concepción Donoso Abigail Mohmed Maharishi Mehta Susan George Federico Mayor Juan José Pratts José Ocejo Frederic Certain Joaquín Pérez Novo Jean – François Le Grand Experts Pool Experts Pool Experts Pool Experts Pool Experts Pool Experts Pool

11. WATER TRIBUNE MAIN ACTIVITIES DURING THE 2ND SEMESTER OF 2007 AND PROGRAMMED DURING 2008Water Tribune Close collaboration in organizing the following activities : • International Droughts Forum (with Spanish Environment Ministry) – Seville, June 18-20, 2007 • Conferences and Courses in Pamplona, Santander, Jaca, Andorra-Teruel, (July. November, 2007) • Water and Energy International Symposium (with Spanish Energy Club) – November 6 – 8, 2007 • Water Conflicts Management (with Greencross International) – Seville, November 15-16, 2007 Participating in international and national seminars of many sorts : • Water Week, Stockholm, August 13-17, 2007 • VI Dialogue, Inter American Water Resources Network; Guatemala, August 12-17, 2007 • United Nations NGOs General Meeting, New York, September 3-5, 2007 • French Water Circle, October 19, 2007 • World Bank Water Week, March, 2008 • Inter American Development Bank, March, 2008 • World Water Council, Istanbul, One Year Before the 5th World Water Forum, March, 2008 • Water Economics, Politics and Agriculture; Zaragoza May 12-15, 2008 with World Bank support