The Natural Resources Division of ECLAC participates in the first National Meeting on Water in Argentina

More than 1,500 people participated in the meeting, including national and international authorities with experience in drinking water and sanitation. At the same time, about 50 specialists participated, who addressed topics such as the relationship between water and sanitation and public health; water scarcity and climate change; water and gender; the future of employment and digital transformation; technological innovations, water management and policies; water, trade and foreign policy, among others.

ECLAC was present at the Meeting, through the Director of the Natural Resources Division, Jeannette Sánchez, who participated in the Water, Trade and Foreign Policy Panel. Here, she shared ECLAC’s vision of water as a vector of development, showing a general panorama of the sector at the regional level, providing a framework for the discussion on a national scale, typical of the event. Likewise, she presented a proposal for a transition in water management that allows promoting a transformative post-pandemic recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean. The above, allowing to draw a roadmap for Argentina in order to achieve basic consensus that promote access to drinking water and sanitation, which also strengthen the actors that make up the sector.

The panel was moderated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Fernando Cervetto, and included the participation of representatives from various nations. In detail, Corina Lehmann, Member of the Environmental Affairs and Human Development Committee of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), also spoke; Fabiana Rorato de Lacerda Prado, Manager of the Research Department of SABESP in Brazil; Alexandra Serra, CEO of Aguas de Portugal; in addition to the aforementioned Director of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC, Jeannette Sánchez. Together with ECLAC, the Panel had the participation and representatives of Argentina, Brazil and Portugal.