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Americas Closing Meeting
7th World Water Forum
Draft Program
March 4-5
Renaissance São Paulo Hotel, Brazil
March 4th
Time
Theme
Dynamic
Presenter
8:30
Registry and welcome coffee
9:00-9:45
(45 min)
Opening
Protocol act
9:45-10:30
(45 min)
The Americas for Future
Water Security
Keynote Speech
Benedito Braga, WWC
President and Secretary of
State for Sanitation and
Water Resources for the
State of Sao Paulo
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:30
(90 min)
Panel “Towards an
Americas positioning in the
7th World Water Forum”
Panel based on
triggering
questions,
regarding the
Regional Document
Facilitator: Giancarlo Gerli
1. Andrei Jouravlev, CEPAL
2. Zelmira May, UNESCO-PHI
3. Andrés Rodriguez, CODIA
4. Benjamin Kiersch, FAOLAC
5. Aziza Akhmouch, OCDE
6. Carlos Ben, ALOAS
By institutions with
regional scope
13:30- 15:00
Lunch
15:00- 17:00
(120 min)
Feedback to the regional
document
19:00
Dinner for participants
Round tables to
make input to the
Document
Facilitator: Javier Aparicio ,
Consultant
March 5th
9:00
Welcome Coffee
9:30-10:30
(60 min)
Conclusions from prior day
Presentation/ input
to be added to the
document
10:30-11:30
(60 min)
Sub-regional perspective:
preparatory process so far
Presentations:
- North America
- Mexico
- Central America
and the Caribbean
- South America
11:30-12:00
(30 min)
Linkages to the 8th World
Water Forum
Presentation
Paulo Varella, ANA
12:00
Closing Ceremony
Protocol act
Benedito Braga, President,
World Water Council
Roberto Olivares, Regional
Coordinator of the
Americas, WWC Governor
Presentation
National Water Agency of
Brazil (ANA)
Dale Jacobson, EWRI-ASCE
Victor Alcocer, IMTA
Fabiola Tabora, GWP
Victor Arroyo/ Abel Mejia,
CAF
Newton Lima, ABDIB
Technical session
14:30-17:30
Water Resources in Brazil:
current situation and focus
on the Brazilian South East