F-IEA takes part in the Webinar on Sustainable Water Management and launches AQUARES
Last 18th September, a webinar has been celebrated by the regional newspaper “La Opinion” on SDG number 6, on sustainable water management, where different experts on the water field have participated. Experts figures such as Mrs Inmaculada Serrano Sánchez, CEO of Hidrogea, Mrs Teresa Navarro Caballero, secretary of the Institute of Water and Environment of the University of Murcia and Director of the Chair of Hydrology and Sustainability Emuasa-UM, and Mr Francisco Cabezas Calvo-Rubio, General Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute Foundation.
The experts mentioned have analysed the availability and work related to the exploitation of water resources, on the occasion of the sixth SDG promoted by the United Nations, in a context as turbulent as that of the health crisis.
From the IEA Foundation, its General Director highlighted the study work and disclose about the water resources of this organization. The foundation does not approach these problems from a single perspective but "has always been concerned with covering the technological, legal, economic, environmental and social aspects of water", as Francisco Cabezas states.
He also expressed the quite evident and unfavourable impact that the pandemic has caused and will cause to projects and initiatives related to the water field, although he took the opportunity to point out the mature character of reuse and desalination practices in the Region of Murcia from a technological point of view and social, at the same time he announced upcoming research events to exchange experiences framed in AQUARES project. A European project on the use of water in which the Euro-Mediterranean Water Institute collaborates with 9 other countries.
