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Report

Preparatory Meeting of the Americas for the 6th World Water Forum

Political, Thematic, Regional and Local Processes

São Paulo, June 27, 28 & 29, 2011 Augusto Ruschi Auditorium

Av. Prof. Frederico Hermann Jr, 345 – São Paulo/SP Promoted by: Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo, National Water Agency of Brazil and the City of Sorocaba. Support: World Water Council and the Brazilian Section, International Forum Committee for the 6th World Water Forum of the Americas and the Environmental Agency of the State of São Paulo - CETESB. List of participants: See attached Foreword The World Water Council is a non-governmental organization, with representatives from many sectors. It was created in 1995 due to the increasing concern about world water issues. The Council’s mission is to promote awareness, political commitment, debates and actions on water issues at all levels, aiming at water sustainability and good management. Every three years, since 1997, the Council has organized an event – the World Water Forum – that involves all its members, governments, academy, business communities, non-governmental organizations, young people and citizens to discuss the most critical themes of that period. For actions better connected to the problems of the world’s different regions, the World Water Council is organized in 4 regions: Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa. The following four processes are being prepared simultaneously for the next World Water Forum, which will be held in Marseille (France), in March 2012: the political process, which involves governments and parliamentarians; the thematic process, which involves several sectors dedicated to finding solutions for the water agenda issues; the regional process, which intends to take the water agenda to local and

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regional government attention; and the citizen process, which intends to be closer to local routine problems. The theme of the 6th World Water Forum is Time for Solutions. The World Forum of the Americas, a regional organization that involves all countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, and which includes Brazil as a member, is dedicated now to six themes, through work groups, as follows:

1. Guaranteed access to water and sanitation, coordinated by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries - ABDIB.

2. Climatic Changes and Water, coordinated by the IDB and the Mexican Water

Commission (CONAGUA), with the support of Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo - SMA.

3. Water Governance and Integrated Management of Water Resources,

coordinated by the Organization of American States (OAS), with the support of National Water Agency of Brazil- ANA.

4. Food Security, coordinated by the University of Nebraska, with the support of

the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Brazilian Department Against Drought - DNOCS.

5. Water and Energy, coordinated by the American Water Resources Association

(AWRA), with the support of Odebrecht and Binational Itaipu.

6. Protection of water resources and ecosystem services, coordinated by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with the support of WWF-Brasil.

For each of these themes, two main targets have been identified and a framework has been established, which will produce six reports that will be consolidated in the Document of the Americas. One of the objectives of this meeting is the state-of-the-art presentation of these six themes. Contribution to the political process The political process operates on three fronts: involvement of local and regional authorities; organization of the parliamentarians’ contribution to water issues; and positioning of national governments in relation to water issues. In this event, the discussion was restricted to local and regional authorities. The local and regional authorities are key actors in the implementation of water solutions. Since the 5th World Water Forum (Istanbul, March 2009), around 700 signatory cities and regions of the Istanbul Water Consensus (IWC) have prepared action plans to face the challenges related to water issues and sanitation sector. Among them, 600 signatory cities belong to the Americas, including three Water Champion Cities (León in Mexico, Buenos Aires in Argentina and Sorocaba in the State of São Paulo/Brazil) and one Water Champion Region (the State of São Paulo, in Brazil).

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The IWC is the cornerstone of the Local and Regional Authority process for the 6th World Water Forum, whose main result is a strong recognition of local and regional authority’s role in the global water policy. This meeting seeks to enable integration and exchange of experience between representatives and in loco learning of the experience in Sorocaba, a candidate for Champion City, with the theme of Basin Revitalization. Objectives of the event a) Promote the integration of representatives from the Americas to strengthen our

positioning in the 6th World Water Forum; b) Integrate procedures to elaborate the Report of the Americas regarding the six

priority themes that have been established: sanitation, climate changes, energy, food security, integrated management and governance, protection of freshwater and ecosystem services;

c) Mobilize local and regional authorities for water protection issues, to make such themes included in their respective agendas;

d) Verify, in loco, an experience of local water management, with a visit to the city of Sorocaba.

The first day was dedicated to opening and the thematic process; on the second day, discussions were held on the local and regional process, and on the third day, after an invitation of Vitor Lippi, the Mayor of Sorocaba, the participants visited the city of Sorocaba to see the results of the Urban Basin Revitalization program.

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Reports of the sessions

June 27, 2011 The opening session was composed of the following authorities: Rubens Rizek – Deputy Secretary, Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo; Edson Giriboni – Secretary, Secretariat for Sanitation and Water Resources – SSRH; Benedito Braga – Deputy President of the World Water Council and President of the, International Forum Committee - IFC; Paulo Varella – Director of National Water Agency of Brazil - ANA; Roberto Olivares – Regional Coordinator, Water Forum of the Americas (WFA) ANEAS/Mexico and Vitor Lippi – Mayor, Sorocaba/São Paulo.

Speech Highlights:

Paulo Varella - ANA

He thanks for everyone’s presence, says that the Americas’ heart is beating in the room and that the purpose of the event is to organize our participation in the 6th World Water Forum, which will be held in March 2012, in Marseille. He also says that he expects to have in the two days of activities the definition of all main strategies for the six priority themes of the Americas and for the articulation of local and regional authorities. “On the third day,

we’ll have the visit to the city of Sorocaba, an invitation of Mayor Vitor Lippi, who is participating in the board”, says Paulo Varella.

He emphasizes that the Brazilian Section of the World Water Council has 16 members, one of the strongest sections of the Council. It has worked on the development of the 6 themes, with the definition of “mirror” coordinators to each of these themes. These people are mobilizing stakeholders to create a document that reflects the reality of various sectors of the Brazilian society.

He says that he’s confident and optimistic about the results of this meeting, which will certainly enable better preparation of the delegation representing the Americas, to show our strong presence in Marseille.

He thinks he still have a lot to learn, but we can also teach. “The union of the Americas is extremely important”, that was Varella’s message.

Roberto Olivares – ANEAS/WFA

He thanks for everyone’s presence and their strong interest in the Americas’ process. He greets the Deputy Secretary for the Environment and the Secretary for Sanitation and Water Resources, highlights the presence of Benedito Braga, President of the International Forum Committee and who has travelled

worldwide seeking for integration and good results to the 6th World Water Forum, Dr. Paulo Varella, for his enthusiastic work, and Mayor Vitor Lippi.

He considers that, in this event, we resume from the point left in Istanbul and comments on the themes to be addressed in the event, in both thematic and political processes. He remembers the sequence of all World Water Forums.

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He emphasizes that the regional proposals and objectives should be consolidated in the work programs and that times and contents should be aligned. He points out the importance of regional and local coordinators.

He mentions that, in a recent trip to Marseille, they received general instructions for this preparatory process and were instructed to prioritize parliamentary politicians who seek for synchronism and harmony for the 6th World Water Forum.

He thinks that the document of the Americas should be a single report, reflecting also the subregional differences, in economic, social and cultural aspects, and be focused on the search for solutions.

A special emphasis was given to the importance of citizens’ participation, without which the process would not be interesting and attractive. He remembers the milestones of works, the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) and WISE (Wide Involvement, Stakeholder Engagement) models.

Vitor Lippi – Mayor of Sorocaba

He greets everyone at the table and the participants involved in this process of high importance, which is about water. He expects to receive everyone in the city of Sorocaba. He says that the intention is to show our attitudes, our local actions to improve the environment quality. He explains that Sorocaba is a medium-sized industrial city of around 600,000 inhabitants,

strongly connected to the Environment and Sanitation agenda. After that, he shows results of his administration period: Sorocaba River cleaning, whose funding was not easy to obtain. The river used to be a problem and today is part of the people’s routine, they now are closer to the river. It has fishes again, some of 12 kilos and in the urban area, what seemed impossible 10 years ago is the reality today. Also notable are the river revitalization and the implementation of bike lanes that connect parks and the river margins. “We’re appreciating the city as an area for people. Concern about identifying river springs and replanting trees – our goal was 500,000 trees and we’re about to achieve that. For this purpose, we’ve implemented a social inclusion program – prison inmates work in the production of seedlings for plantation, the community, properly prepared, plants them and the former prison inmates are responsible for the plantation maintenance. This cooperative has 170 members, and this model has been implemented in Bogota, Colombia. Inundations that used to affect part of the population don’t happen anymore. Families have been transferred to residential complexes and engineering works have been made to control the water, returning it to the river. There’s still a lot to do, but we’d like to receive you with love and attention. We may not be the best in the world, but we can be the best to the world”, that was Mayor Lippi’s words.

Benedito Braga – USP/IFC

He greets everyone at the table, emphasizing the varied representativeness of the meeting. He says that we see in this meeting the union of the Americas, and that, for the first time, he sees a coordinated work performed by representatives of the Latin America, the Caribbean and colleagues from the North America,

who are interested in the Forum of the Americas. He says that only mathematical equations and political programs are not enough to solve water problems; these should include involvement and mobilization. The meeting should be focused on

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searching for solutions, definition of viable goals, even without much media effect, and insert a new brick in this construction of a water management system.

Rubens Rizek – Deputy Secretary, SMA

He thanks for everyone’s presence and greets Edson Giriboni, Walter Teschi, Benedito Braga, Roberto Olivares, Paulo Varella, Vitor Lippi, João Gabriel and Dr. Stela Goldenstein, former Secretary and a supporter of SMA. He justifies the absence of Secretary Bruno Covas, who had another appointment and couldn’t participate. He

says that the water theme is one of the most important issues nowadays: “We’ve got to have the water theme in our minds, it should guide the public policies.” He emphasizes three aspects that should be taken into account: the technical aspect, which involves being always updated, and that’s why forums like this are important; cooperation from all government levels, divisions, NGOs and international organizations; and mobilization of cities and the society, to understand the importance of water, rivers and springs and the salubriousness of underground waters. We’ve got to take this technical debate to the population.”

“The SMA is involved in three essential programs: Payment for Environment Services, which seeks for economic sustainability to preservation initiatives; expansion of the Protected Areas – we’re promoting the creation of private reserves and municipal reserves; and the Economic Ecological Zoning, which should respect the Water Resources Management Units and that will define where certain activities can or cannot be implemented. We’ve got to be committed to action, to performing.” He ends wishing good results to everyone’s works.

Edson Giriboni – Secretary, SSRH

He greets everyone, highlighting the joint efforts between the Secretariat for Sanitation and Water Resources and the Secretariat for Environment. “We were assigned to continue the fantastic work performed by the SMA regarding the water resources management.” He emphasizes the support that has been provided by Dr. Benedito

Braga and Paulo Varella. He says that Braga has helped a lot the SSRH, as well as Paulo from ANA, which has established a partnership with the SSRH. He greets SABESP through Boranga, present in the plenary. He says that water is an issue of highest importance. “We want to achieve sanitation by the end of this decade. We want to conclude the recovery of river springs and we’re investing 1.3 billion reais. In addition, we’re working in the recovery of streams, with the consequent removal of families.” He emphasizes that 200 million dollars are being invested in the recovery of Tietê River Wetlands and 7,000 families will be transferred. For each action, the technical, financial, social and political questions are taken into account. Habitation is a central issue; it’s necessary to establish partnerships with the cities and encourage the creation of proper master plans. The occupation of wetland areas should be prevented.

He reminds Rizek’s speech on adopting the UGRHIs - Water Resources Management Units/Basins as Planning Units statewide. The Governor delegated this mission to three Secretariats: Civil Cabinet, Planning and Sanitation and Water Resources, which should carry out this decision. Water is essential. “We’re investing in the reutilization of water from effluents treated at Capuava Complex.” Five basins already have water

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availability problems. He informs that they’re investing in rationalized use, environmental education and loss reduction.

He mentions examples of partnerships with the federal government, such as the cases of Paraíba do Sul and Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí, already operating with effective shared management, and two other basis (Grande River and Paranapanema River) on progress.

He wants to be involved in the World Water Forum process. He points out the participation of cities in the process, congratulates Vitor Lippi once again. He concludes reminding that the most important work for the population, according to a survey conducted in the city of Santa Lúcia, was, in 7 years of administration, the Sewage Treatment Station, which shows that the society is appreciating this action. “Engage the society in this challenge of water and nature preservation”, those were his final words.

See Annex 1

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Lectures The preparation process for the 6th World Water Forum

Dr. Benedito Braga (See Annex 2)

Dr. Braga starts his speech distinguishing the World Water Council from the World Water Forums. The Council was created in 1995 to encourage people and entities around the water theme. Today, it has 400 associated entities, including multi-governmental (such as UNESCO), governmental (such as the Ministry of Environment from Finland) and non-governmental organizations (TNC), as well as

local governments, universities, institutes, etc. This is about gathering those with roles in water management worldwide. The Council’s assignment is to think about water issues, as indicated by the Water Policy Journal for reference, which is a really important tool to disseminate technical articles, concepts and policies of water resources. Considering that, the Council decided to disseminate its actions and mobilize stakeholders through the World Water Forums, which are meetings of Council members and stakeholders. Its first edition in Marrakesh received 400 registrations, with increasing number of participants at each edition. The Forum in Istanbul had 25,000 participants. This is a sign that the Council’s mission has been fulfilled, mobilizing people to the water theme. The most recent edition of the Forum presented many representative numbers (see the PPT presentation).

He emphasizes the combined efforts of the Council and the government of France, particularly of Marseille, to organize this event. He reminds everyone of the 6th World Water Forum slogan: Time for solutions. He says that the problems are already known and that they should be solved locally, involving other sectors that interfere in the water theme. He reminds that the work has been developed following the SMART principles, that is, Specific, Measurable, Achievable and Time-bound goals should be established, with the participation of everyone, and that’s the meaning of WISE (which also stands for smart): Wide Involvement, Stakeholder Engagement.

The Committee, composed of 11 members, is organized into 4 commissions/processes, coordinated as follows: a) Political process - Director: Philippe Lacoste (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MAE/France). - Deputy Director: András Szollosi-Nagy (Institute for Water Education - UNESCO-IHE).

b) Regional process - Director: Eunkyung Park (Korea Water Forum - KWF). - Deputy Director: Maurice Bernard (French Development Agency – AFD).

c) Thematic process - Director: Dogan Altinbilek (International Hydropower Association – IHA). - Deputy Director: Patrick Lavarde (National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environments – ONEMA/France).

d) Citizen process - Director: Martine Vassal (City Administration, Marseille/France). - Deputy Director: Hachmi Kennou (Mediterranean Water Institute – IME).

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The 3 conditions required for a successful Forum - good governance, funding and suitable environment for the execution of actions - and the 12 priorities, according to the PPT presentation, were discussed. After that, in one more meeting held in Paris, 144 goals were defined. He gave some examples of these goals.

Regional process. The purpose of this Forum is to hear the regions. The 144 goals were defined in two general hearings and four continental processes (Asia/Pacific, Europe, Africa, Americas) through the Regional Forums – such as the Water Forum of the Americas, created in 2009 and coordinated today by ANEAS and managed by ANA. In this event, the goals defined in Paris should be checked for their compatibility with the Americas’ reality. This decision should be made with the support of the presentations made by Roberto Olivares and Maureen Ballestero and the thematic coordinators.

Regarding the political process, it is constituted of the parliamentary variant, with special emphasis on the Help Desk, a tool created to enable easier referencing to experiences and legislative proposals of all countries; the local authority variant, in which the example of São Paulo should be noted, when almost the whole State was mobilized around the Water Pact; and the ministerial variant, on which we’re working to establish a ministerial statement that should reflect the discussion we’re having with many representatives from several countries and of the Forum itself. He makes comments on the list of goals, which is in Annex 3.

He warns that, if someone doesn’t agree with any of the goals and responsibilities, he should be contacted, because this is the golden opportunity to solve these problems, as we’re all together in it. “Many meetings have been held and we’re organizing a platform of solutions that will start operating in the beginning of the next month, so anyone will be able to enter this platform and make contributions. And then, this Forum will actually be worldwide, by enabling everyone’s participation. The current discussion refers to whether the consolidation of proposals should use the regional or the thematic format. The division I coordinate is working in the combination of both proposals.” He thanked everyone and ended his speech.

Regional thematic process. After that, the day was dedicated to the Regional Thematic Process and the following results were expected: a) presentation on the progress of each theme – goals, work strategy, content and adopted methodology; b) definition of the structure for the final document to be elaborated (items that should be addressed, number of pages for each theme and final formatting); c) conciliation of the different contributions from all countries in the final document; d) deadlines for submitting the preliminary and final documents; e) definition of a schedule of events/activities until March 2012.

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Water Forum of the Americas: thematic priorities, a continuous process

Maureen Ballestero Vargas – GWP/ Coordinator, Commission of Regional Goals, Water Forum of the Americas. (Annex 4) She thanks for the invitation and emphasizes that she’ll speak about the thematic process from a regional viewpoint, specifically of the Americas, and that it is a forum of solutions, where the work should be based on this perspective, now and later, in Marseille. After the

definition of goals, it’s necessary to search for solutions, in a continuous process. Her first considerations on the regional process show the diversity of the Americas, a very complex continent.

She says that the Water Forum of the Americas coordinates the regional process and was created in Costa Rica in November 2009, with the participation of various sectors from the society: national and international sectors, the civil society. “We wanted to have a stable structure to be prepared for the Forums, not only in Marseille, but other future forums and other fronts, such as COP and Rio +20. In addition, we understand that we should have a position positioning. Coordination: Roberto Olivares of ANEAS and managed by ANA. The Thematic Groups, which I coordinate, until the event in Marseille. The work groups develop each thematic priority.

In the list of goals presented by Dr. Braga, we should define the most urgent ones, as it would be impossible to have groups to all themes. Then, the themes would be established as follows:

a) Guaranteed access to water and sanitation, coordinated by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries – ABDIB.

b) Climatic Changes and Water, coordinated by the IDB and the Mexican Water Commission (CONAGUA), with the support of Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo – SMA.

c) Water Governance and Integrated Management of Water Resources, coordinated by the Organization of American States (OAS), with the support of the National Water Agency of Brazil – ANA.

d) Food Security, coordinated by the University of Nebraska, with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Brazilian Department Against Drought – DNOCS.

e) Water and Energy, coordinated by the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), with the support of Odebrecht and Binational Itaipu.

f) Protection of water resources and ecosystem services, coordinated by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with the support of WWF-Brasil.

Each work group should define the goals. We should start with 20 and end with 11, according to the instructions provided by the International Forum Committee.” She says that she’s the coordinator of these groups. Some participate more actively and others not so much. The communication is via e-mail or teleconference. She comments on the formation of groups, their respective goals and the activities that have been performed by the groups, following the PowerPoint slides. The list of goals and strategies is attached; this material was included in each one’s folder (Annex 3).

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The last presentation was a form template for recording existing or innovative solutions. Each group should identify three to five solutions per goal, which should be varied (from private, public, rural, urban sectors). The last stage is to elaborate a report to each goal and make a document of the Americas. A very rich process, with many events. She pointed out that the events are being organized by the groups, individually or collectively, and that the agenda is in the attached PowerPoint presentation.

Roberto Olivares – ANEAS/WFA (Annex 5) He starts his speech saying that the work dynamic is very intense and broad, and that ANEAS/WFA are involved in all 4 processes. Regarding the thematic process, there are 11 regional goals for the 6 themes already presented in Paris in the previous meeting of the Council. He points out the WISE and SMART processes. Each

regional thematic leader should produce a report based on these two principles. The Water Forum of the Americas has the participation of 37 entities and more than 50 are interested in participating in the thematic process. “We’re working for the integration of all 4 processes, by constantly publishing news and having meetings.”

He shows a work plan until the event in Marseille (in the attached presentation), which has the activities, deadlines, people in charge and format of each activity. He ends his speech talking about the information reporting process of the WFA: website, electronic journal and participation in social networks (facebook and twitter).

Paulo Varella - ANA He explains the context of the Brazilian representation in the Council and the World Water Forum. “In Brazil, we have an organization named Brazilian Section, with 22 members, headed by Braga and me, Paulo Varella, as we are board members of the World Water Council, we’re the fifth entity in the world. Mayor

Vitor Lippi has already offered to participate and will be the twenty-third member. For our work, in this process for the construction of the 6th Forum, we’re organized in groups “mirrored” to the groups of the Americas:

a) Guaranteed access to water and sanitation – the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries – ABDIB.

b) Climatic Changes and Water - Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo – SMA.

c) Water Governance and Integrated Management of Water Resources - the National Water Agency of Brazil – ANA.

d) Food Security - the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Brazilian Department Against Drought – DNOCS.

e) Water and Energy - Odebrecht and Binational Itaipu. f) Protection of water resources and ecosystem services - WWF-Brasil.

Today, we’ll have the presentation of these groups and then, we’ll be updated with each group’s progress.

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Session of solution goals Alignment of Water with Energy

Gabriel Azevedo – Odebrecht (Annex 6) General Coordination of the American Water Resources Association and, in Brazil, a partnership of Itaipu and Odebrecht. The work team was assembled last month, which has technicians from Odebrecht and Itaipu and two consultants, under Bárbara’s operational coordination and, next month, under Jorge Khoury’s institutional

coordination (the names are on the slide).

Regarding the theme of Water and Energy, it may be considered in two ways: water for energy and energy for water. During the preparatory meetings in Brasilia, it was decided that “energy for water” should be addressed by the water supply and sanitation sector. Water collection and utilization for energy production are essential. And energy and water are inexorably connected. Two goals have been established for the region, as follows:

a) Goal 1 - by 2012, create a collaboration system for Water and Energies, for the coordination of subregional policies, guides and analyses of best practices to promote the interdependence of water and energy; it attempts to consolidate good experiences and consolidate systems to disseminate such experiences.

b) Goal 2 - by 2015, perform an inventory to develop technology guides, handling systems and more efficient and sustainable practices to be used in the energy sector.

Each goal has a detailed matrix with coordination, objectives, dates, in-person or remote strategy (see the PowerPoint presentation). In the specific case of Brazil, it’s necessary to be coherent if one wants to be inserted in this group of goals. Maureen Ballestero’s speech should be observed when she says that this group has few collaborators, perhaps because of the low number of entities that operate in this segment. He considers that the challenge is to promote engagement of more actors in Brazil and South America. The preliminary discussion provided some priority themes for “water for energy”, which are:

a) First theme: Energy expansion planning – as the potential of Brazil and most of the other South American countries is in the Amazon Basin, we have to think of these opportunities and define when, what and how to do it, we have to think of positive and negative cumulative impacts, long-term impacts and decision-making strategies.

b) Second theme: Energy integration agreements – it is part of the agenda of many countries and should be included in lour list of priorities, because it is already the subject of negotiations.

c) The third theme is linked with technology agreements for the implementation of new hydroelectric power plants and many good things have happened in this sector. Interesting achievements have occurred with recently created bulb turbines and low-head turbines, which enable the implementation of run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants.

It brings a number of benefits and a number of challenges. Today, we see the reservoirs going through a criminalization process, as Gomide would say, which

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makes the Brazilian electricity system somewhat vulnerable and requires deep discussions of trade-offs associated with that. In addition, we have the theme involving small and large hydroelectric power plants. Some years ago, there was the slogan: Small is better, but today, there is a consensus on Big is better, in the environmental perspective.

d) The fourth and last theme is a cluster of subjects linked with the social-environmental factors of hydroelectric power plants: biodiversity, local communities and benefits related to the balance of GHG emissions. For us, the hydroelectric energy is a clean, renewable energy, which should be considered as such.

In this context, he informs that he’s made a table for inquiries to government agents and the civil society (see the PowerPoint presentation), which should be performed in the following weeks, ending in August, when the first version of the report should be ready. Debate - Question not recorded –

Gabriel Azevedo: This process is just starting. The first inquiry was limited to energy companies associated with the Forum, which constitute a small

group. Now, we have to expand that, checking with associations and entities, such as PINI and ABIAPI, so the information collected will not be restricted to the knowledge obtained from Itaipu and Odebrecht. This process will start to contact entities via e-mail and telephone calls and whoever is interested will be recruited for a meeting in Brasilia on this theme at the end of August.

Cristiana (GDF Suez): My question has a global character. I’d like to know about the dynamic to be adopted to expand the participation. GDF Suez, one of

the sponsors of the Forum in Marseille, would like to know how we could participate and contribute to goal achievement?

Gabriel Azevedo: I’ve already talked to Gil Maranhão in the Hydropower Association Congress and you are welcome. We’ll be partners; please, help

me invite others.

Ninon Machado (Ipanema Institute/Freshwater Action Network - FAN): I’d like to ask Gabriel, considering the theme of “search for solutions”, how do you

intend to address the question of populations affected by barrages, how will you promote a more effective dialog in this segment?

Gabriel Azevedo: This is a part of our challenge. Your question involves two distinct variants. In the case of MAB, this theme has a political involvement,

but we also have to work with the communities living in the neighboring areas of the projects. We don’t have much time or capillarity to talk to everyone, but we intend to select 3 or 4 current projects and talk to them. Then, we’ll refer to MAB, which is easier.

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Luiz Carlos (City Administration of Manaus): I’d like to know if the isolated energy system that causes deficient water supply has been ventilated.

Gabriel Azevedo: It hasn’t been discussed, you’re invited for that, but your question is much more linked with the second variant I mentioned before,

which is the utilization of energy for water production.

Walter Tesch (CRHi/SSRH): I’m curious about something related to the Forum. I see that Peru and Bolivia are not in this discussion, they would make

important contributions. How is the contact made?

Gabriel Azevedo: I’m not from the Forum, but our role is to identify the position of Brazil and Maureen Ballestero encouraged us to involve other South American countries. I started this work and, as you said, Peru e Bolivia

are critical in this case. Brazil has established an agreement of energy integration with Peru. Peru is making an agreement with Chile and Colombia. Regarding the Madeira River Power Plants, we have to perform joint monitoring with Bolivia and we have to approach them. If you have any contact to initiate their participation, they’ll be welcome. We can’t invite them to the Forum, but we can place them closer to this subject.

Olga Samper (UN Habitat): You mentioned two focuses: water for energy and energy for water, but there are many other variants, energy and climatic

changes, energy and environment. Energy is employed in all water uses and these are very important interrelations.

Gabriel Azevedo: In Brazil, we don’t have the challenge of having availability for various uses; in Brazil, the great impact is the energy cost to

produce water.

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Water and Food Security

Gertjan Beekman - IICA This theme, water and food security, is coordinated by the University of Nebraska and IICA and DNOCS are the Brazilian coordinators. I’ll talk about the work progress and Pedro Eymard Campos Mesquita will talk about the solutions. We’re now dedicated to finding partnerships. Petrobras and the Brazilian

Meteorology Institute – INMET are interested in the theme, especially INMET, for the climatic impacts on agriculture. Other neighboring countries have also shown some interest in this theme. Improve the meteorological information. In Brazil, another interested institution is the Ministry of Social Development, due to the federal government program of taking 16 million people who are below the poverty line away from absolute misery condition. This program offers a structural system to provide access to water, as well as structuring actions. The structural system has the purpose of constructing one million water tanks and the structuring actions enable the access, reduce distances to water collection and other specific questions related to semiarid regions. The DNOCS has broad experience with protein production through fish farm within dikes, and it’s aligned with our work group’s guideline of increasing food production.

Pedro Eymard Campos Mesquita – DNOCS (Annex 7) The initial information provided by DNOCS are as follows: the DNOCS is more than 100 years old and it was created in a region without water. He informs that this is a crystalline region, where water does not infiltrate, the rain falls and runs straight to the sea. He says that the first action of DNOCS was to contain the

intermittent rivers, as, by nature, there is no perennial river in that region. With the construction of dams, a scientific study was conducted on the species in that region. “They weren’t species like those mentioned here in the morning”, said Pedro Eymard. He says that such species are not threatened with extinction, because they’ve been reproduced in farms. He shows several historical facts and curiosities, such as the case of fishes with ovary and testicle, which, in pairs in the dikes, can reproduce. The DNOCS has always conducted studies on water quality. Regarding the food production in irrigated areas, he says that the DNOCS keeps 60,000 hectares of areas ready for irrigation and with relative water security, which will be better with the improvements in the area of São Francisco River.

His final information are related to fish farming as food production. He said that today, one kilo of tilapia is produced for the cost of R$ 3,00 (three reais), and that Ceará State is the largest producer of fishes grown in farms. The population of Ceará consumes all this production plus the amounts produced in Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Bahia and even in São Paulo. Alevins of arapaima have been produced and returned to the Amazon region. He concludes that the same is happening with tilapia that is returned to Angola. He emphasizes that his speech is about things that already happen and can be demonstrated in Marseille.

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Debate

Ninon Machado – II/FAN – For Mr. Beekman, my question is about nutrition security, not only food security, and its relation to the national food security

system, they should be included in the Forum, as we want solutions for that.

Beekman: It is already happening, the program was recently launched and around 2,000 cities have been identified, which, according to the Human

Development Index, would fulfill these requirements. The emphasis is on the actions of physical interventions, such as water tanks, and a second water tank to produce vegetables. In addition, there’s the question of access to water. That is in implementation phase. They are really interested in participating in the Forum.

Angelo - WWF – Brasil – A suggestion, in the same direction as Ninon’s question. We participate in the Food Security System and in the development

of a National Adaptation Plan, and it would be interesting to have the commission taking part in the development of this Plan.

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Water and Sanitation to everyone

Victor Arroyo – UN-Habitat (Annex 8) “The message we have to transmit can be summed up in three points. In these two months, we’ve made contacts with several entities of the region aiming at more inclusive process, with new actors. The intention is to discuss the partners’ themes of interest, and he mentioned the example of the Brazilian Association of

Infrastructure and Basic Industries – ABDIB, which wants to discuss the goals for the sector.” ABDIB says that it is working on the first version of the document, which will be presented by Olga Samper, and that it’s important as the basis for discussions within the regional process. He informs that the members of the Water and Sanitation group are: BID, UN-Habitat, ABDIB, FAN, the World Bank, CEHI.ASCE, ANEAS, GWP, CRRH-SICA, AIIS, CONAGUA. “The areas addressed are: water supply, sewage collection and treatment, conceptual chart, principle of human right to water, progress on millennium goals, governance, funding, sustainability, creation of favorable environment and regional goals. Goal 1 is to make all countries of the Americas understand all implications of the human right to water and have 25% of the countries with a formal work plan for the implementation of the rights to water. Goal 2 is to identify the good practices in public policies to increase the efficiency of water services and sewage.” “The purpose of Goal 1 is to clarify all implications of the declaration of the human rights to water, in the political, institutional and financial perspectives; disseminate, through regional workshops, such implications to all subregions; develop case studies, based on the perspective of the right to water, seeking for stronger engagement of the countries. Regarding Goal 2, the purposes are: promote an interchange of operators through partnerships and disseminate good practices, tools and mechanisms to improve the operators’ efficiency. The partners we want are the national governments through CODIA, local governments and the civil society.” He presents the schedule of events (see the PowerPoint presentation). He believes that, with the new incorporations, the group will be successful.

Olga Samper – UN – Habitat (Annex 9) “I’ll make a summary of the first conclusions and directions after the analyses we’ve been performing.” She says that this document is not the final version, but the basis for discussions. Until Marseille, it will receive rich inputs and be changed according to the various seminars and workshops that have been scheduled, involving the stakeholders.

“It involves the development of a policy for the water and sanitation sector in the Americas, considering the information available, but not all updated, in each country, but which constitutes an overview and that enables to present results and elaborate proposals.” She says that the document attempts to express the debate about the access to water and sanitation as a human right. It is focused on the need to provide water and sanitation to everyone. This idea should be reinforced to the countries of the Americas. She considers that, as it is a human right, the service improvement should

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be encouraged. The first task was to develop this conceptual reference, and then, study the sector situation to identify the improvements that should be made, ensure good governability and service provision in all countries. An analysis was performed of each country. Each country was evaluated considering 3 conditions: governability, funding and favorable environment, as well as each country’s own characteristics. She informed that the analysis considered documents and reports available in each country and those of the Inter-American Development Bank, which funded several studies on the theme and strategic plans of the sector between 2007 and 2010. Then, the scenario of the sector in the Americas was obtained. Based on this analysis and studies, it was possible to define goals and proposals, which will be discussed in the seminars by all stakeholders. “The principle of human right was the essential instrument to work with the countries, the basis for all governments’ actions, which will involve political and community agreements for the joint execution of such actions”, says Olga Samper. Considering each country’s analysis, she concluded that it’s impossible to have a common goal to the Americas; each country has a very different reality and the main point of the document is that there is no single goal, each country should define its own goal. “The financial sustainability is also considered essential, not only governmental resources should be taken into consideration, but private resources too, as all parties should invest resources to support this sector, regardless of the country’s poverty or wealth level”, said Olga Samper. She also considers that, regarding the theme of development, it’s important to involve the community and discuss compensation mechanisms to obtain higher participation. It’s necessary to have a structured and clear information system and observe the 3 work phases: a) collection of information; b) the quality of such collected information; c) the type of service provision to be implemented and its quality. The information system is a tool being implemented to demand the sanitation service. Last, among the existing information, there is no systematic data about governability structures and the sector structuring. She believes that everyone wants to get structured, but the information, including those of economic character, are not easy to find. To end her speech, she says that she considers the following as priorities: the political agenda, the strengthening of institutions, the financial sustainability, a structured information system and the involvement of community that positively feels the impact of good water and sewage services.

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Giancarlo Gerli – ABDIB (Annex 10) He starts introducing ABDIB, the entity that represents the infrastructure (various sectors, such as transportation, energy, sanitation and telecommunications) in Brazil, and whose differentiation is to gather public and private associates. The sectors represented by ABDIB correspond to 15% of the GDP,

which means around 2.2 trillion dollars. “You can estimate the importance of our associates’ revenue." He talks about the relation of ABDIB with the water and sanitation sector. Besides gathering its associates to discuss several themes, it also meets with other entities of the sector, because the main objective is to provide sanitation in Brazil, either through public or private operators, or equipment manufacturers, etc. Today, there are 14 entities in operation related to water and sanitation services. He remembers that ABDIB has followed the 6th Forum theme discussions and the entire organization process since last year. Each theme was presented in the morning. It should be noted that in January there was no one from the South America, below the Equator, to contribute to the 6 or 5 themes selected by the Americas. He thinks that the population of Brazil and the other South American countries correspond to 400 million people, and should be represented in the group. The general coordination of the theme is performed by the BID/UN - Habitat and ABDIB, which supports and is supported by a number of entities (see the PowerPoint presentation). In the beginning, there were 5 goals to the sanitation theme. He says that some were not feasible because they didn’t fulfill the SMART principle, that is, they weren’t measurable or realistic. He informs that the goals were revised and reduced to two goals, as already presented. He says that the contribution of ABDIB involves the formulation of goals. Goal 1 ensures that by 2012 the countries will be aware of the principle of water as a human right and with the respective expansion, and that by 2015, 15% of them will have a strategy of service implementation. He says that some studies conducted in 2008 show that more than 25% of the Latin American countries provide water system to 96% of the residences and sewage system to 90%. Then, the proposal of ABDIB é is that Goal 1 has the following text: in around 2012, the countries are expected to recognize water and sanitation as human rights and be formally committed to the achieving the universal access to water and sanitation. Goal 2 does not present numbers, and according to the SMART concept, it cannot be considered. The problem identified is the search for global sanitation. Then, the following text is proposed: in around 2020, at least half of countries should work to reduce the existing gap in the access to water and 50% should double the treated sewage percentage. “This is the contribution of ABDIB, which may or may not be accepted”, said Giancarlo Gerli. This is about defining measurable objectives, but without specific dates and without saying if they intend to reduce the gap in the access to water and sewage treatment, being closer to the main problem. The last point he addressed was the fact that ABDIB doesn’t know whether it is a member of the Forum of the Americas or not. He clearly indicated that ABDIB intends to be a Forum member.

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Julio Thadeu Ketelhut (Department of Water Resources, MMA). “I have a question to Olga Samper and a request for clarification to Giancarlo.” He informs that he represented Brazil in the most recent Forum and followed the discussion on water as a human right. He questions if the viability of this principle wouldn’t require a non-refundable fund for the sanitation area to support all countries, especially the underdeveloped ones, which consider that. Has the Forum of the Americas discussed the creation of such fund? I’d like to have an explanation of Dr. Giancarlo Gerli about the relation between the goals of the Americas and the Millennium Goals? Is there any overlapping?

Olga Samper: She explains that, regarding the fund, this is the most critical theme in the sanitation area, as many of our countries need resources to improve education, sanitation, among other areas. “We’ve seen in the documents the proposal for the creation of this fund. There are strategic proposals made by multilateral entities and by countries for the creation of this fund. We’re trying to present this proposal in the document, but it’ll involve negotiations and consensus with the fund providers.” But she emphasizes that it’s a mechanism, and not a goal. “Regarding the second question, I reinforce goal number 15, which intends to ensure water and sanitation to everyone. This is the logic of our work, the search for universalization.

Giancarlo Gerli: He says that in Brazil there are two large banks that funds water supply and sewage collection and treatment. He believes that these funds/loans should be directed not to the work itself, but to the development of one or several projects that ensure work sustainability, a project of good quality. “That’s what is recurrently missing. In Brazil and in Latin America, sometimes we have the money but we don’t have a project.” Then, he says that the first step should be to support the elaboration of projects and only after that to request these special funds (all Latin American banks). He considers that the work developed by Olga Samper has no incompatibility for water or sewage services, regarding the Millennium Goals.

Alberto Palombo (Inter-American Water Resources Network - IWRN): The question about the indicators for different sectors to follow the sanitation issue. “These indicators should be relevant and are dependent on the information quality. Brazil and Chile are committed to that. But not all countries are”, he said and emphasized that it’s necessary to defend the group position.

Olga Samper: Regarding the information, we’re having problems due to lack of uniformity of collected information. Coverage has different definitions; 28 countries and millions of cities, each understands it differently. In what data can we trust? We need 3 or 4 common and reliable indicators for the region, well arranged and well collected. We want to work in a single and clear information system that helps follow the real mission of the sector.

Carlos Alberto Rosito (AIDIS): Through AIDIS, he has learned about the reality of several Latin American countries. The Brazilian indexes show the average sewage collection of around 50% + septic tanks and the average sewage treatment

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between 20% and 30% of all produced sewage. “We’re all equally unequal”, he says. First-world islands close to very needy areas. He requests the revision of the goal indicators, because, with such disparities in some countries or regions, they’d be not representative. He asks for proper collection and treatment sewage situation, with more precise goals.

Victor Arroyo (UN Habitat): “Regarding the international fund (non-refundable or loan), we have to search for better efficiency.” Most of his observations addressed inequality. “Latin America is the most unequal region across the globe. We have to prioritize the most impoverished regions, and they should have clear goals.”

Global climatic changes and water

Estrellita Fuentes – CONAGUA (Annex 11) She starts saying that she’s very happy to be once again with the Brazilian colleagues. Some time ago, CONAGUA, the Mexican federal authority for water issues, was invited to participate in the World Economic Forum in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the theme of “water and climatic changes” with the economic sectors, and then

she could meet many Brazilians and visit the city of São Paulo. Regarding the theme, she informs that Mexico is very involved in the discussion on climatic changes. In December last year, the country promoted the COP-16, the conference that strongly addressed this subject, which has become vital to the Americas. 60% of the climatic changes are reflected on water. “All of us have suffered with water shortage, abundance/availability or quality. Everyone’s talking about mitigation, carbon markets, reduction of emissions, but nobody’s talking about paying the costs from such changes in the developing countries. We’ve discussed the water agenda since 2010, which is transversal to all these points, a number of public agendas: farming, energy, tourism, environmental protection. Even with all COPs, we have to define practical questions. The water theme should be emphasized, because it puts human survival at risk.” She thinks that the adaptation should be planned, it should be defined how to reduce the impacts of climatic changes when making decisions. She says it’s necessary to establish the public policy dialog to enhance the community awareness. “It’s necessary to have a single voice to speak of this subject. When speaking of adaptation funds, green funds, water should be included in these agendas to guide the decision making process”, says Estrellita. She remembered that, in the preparatory meeting for the COP-17, the water theme was almost forgotten. “We can’t complicate this agenda even more”, that’s what they said, but efforts were made to keep it in the global agenda that needs to be discussed. She informs that there are more than 20 entities involved in this theme and a product has already been developed, which are the nine recommendations elaborated during the COP-16, available in document form. She highlights the topics: information system, qualification, water infrastructure, which should be adapted to the climatic changes, to enable the elaboration of new goals for the social organization and the technical teams. She also said that two goals have been defined, which should be taken to the World Water Forum: the first one, coordinated by the IDB, is the inventory of Adaptation Actions of the Americas – programs and initiatives. The second goal is to make the

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countries start their adaptation plans. The water theme is essential, it should be inserted in this plan, and there should be institutional strengthening. She also highlights that it has a relation with public health and sanitation. She says that the inventory of exemplary measures is on the IDB website. Regarding the adaptation plans, the analysis should be made in 2015, for the next Forum, to evaluate the measures taken by then. Next steps: see the schedule of events until Rio +20 in the PowerPoint presentation; event of women and water. She concludes saying that water should be highlighted as a transversal resource, it cannot be addressed as a sector, water is related to adaptation and mitigation, it should be considered as an integrator. The Adaptation Plans should be based on this perspective. Joining regional and global efforts is essential. She thanks for the invitation and the reception and ends her speech.

Rosa Mancini – SMA-SP (Annex 12) She describes the activities developed in Brazil by the SMA, guided by CONAGUA and IDB. All the work was performed according to the recommendations of these two entities, more specifically based on the documents of instructions produced by both, with particular highlight to the SMART and WISE principles, which have been

recurrently mentioned here today. She says that the work started with an intensive bibliographic study about the theme and analysis of the legislation in force in Brazil, pointing out what the Brazilian legislation determines concerning water. “On June 3rd, 2011, we received at the SMA 33 nationally and internationally renowned experts, who participated in a roundtable discussion and defined the conceptual bases of our work, keeping Brazil in mind. During the event organization, we produced a proposal for an inventory of adaptation actions to Brazil, which was tested and later adapted to that of the BID, mentioned by Estrellita Fuentes”. Regarding this point, she asked everyone’s support for providing contacts to forward the inventory. “We’ll send it via ABEMA to all Secretariats for the Environment in Brazil, if they coordinate the respective policies of climatic changes, but we need contacts of NGOs, industries and other sectors, to enable complete referencing. This inventory should be answered by the end of July or early August 2011. In August 2011, we’ll work on joining the information and by the end of September 2011 we’ll have a preliminary report, and then a meeting will be scheduled to discuss this report.” In the roundtable discussion, 17 recommendations were defined, which are correlated with the 3 most common situations/problems concerning water, which are: flood, drought and coastal zone alterations. After that, these recommendations were placed into 5 categories of adaptation actions: data and information production, urban and rural infrastructure, economic activities, social communication and legal/institutional strengthening. She informed that, at the end, the persons responsible for the actions will be identified. She says that this task will be performed in October 2011.

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Debate

Cristina Ribeiro (GDF Suez): She congratulates the two lecturers on their presentations, which were objective and correlated climatic changes and planning, considering that the relation with CO2 is never used efficiently. “How does the Forum plan to forward the proposal of adaptation actions, preventing the mistakes that happened with CO2, when an international non-refundable fund was created, but the funded actions didn’t solve at all the problem of CO2 reduction? How do you intend to have it directed to water, and prevent it from becoming one more Kyoto Protocol for Water?” She asked if these adaptation actions considered only the global warming, or also the natural periods of Earth dynamic.

Estrellita Fuentes: Regarding the international recognition, the intention is to make this agenda permanent and we expect a lot from COP-17 in Nairobi. The theme of Climatic Change and Water should be present in Marseille. Water should be an important chapter to all funds, with clear and quick-start mechanisms to act on these issues.

Rosa Mancini: “We expect to water issues a treatment other than that of the Kyoto Protocol. Water, unlike the control for greenhouse gas emission, has the consequences of climatic changes.” She said that the questions we are having, although not caused by climatic changes or seasonal climate alteration, inevitably cause serious problems that should be strongly tackled.

Alberto Palombo (Inter-American Water Resources Network - IWRN): There’s no consensus in the scientific community on climatic or seasonal change. To reach a consensus, we have to spend more time and money with it. More public funds should somehow be allocated to water management. In Brazil, we have some funds, such as CT Hidro – Sector Fund for Water Resources. What’s the experience of Mexico and São Paulo regarding the prioritization of this theme?

Estrellita Fuentes (CONAGUA): Mexico has increasingly invested in it, there’s an interministerial awareness; dialog, discussions and debates have been established, but we’re convinced that the climatic change is one of the greatest challenges we have to face. Nothing has been decided about funds, so this initiative should be reinforced.

Rosa Mancini: She points out the possibility of combining funds of sectors related to water for action funding.

Fernando Veiga: He complements the information, saying that the federal government created the Climate Fund, and that the adaptation actions in this first year are the most important point to be supported.

Olga Samper: She observes that the community in general doesn’t believe in climatic change. They think the rain and floods are normal. She asks if there’s a more aggressive strategy to reach the population.

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Maureen Ballestero: Disagreeing with Olga, she says that in Costa Rica, 85% of all people think that the climatic change is one of the most important national problems.

Estrellita Fuentes: She suggested that we should speak up regarding this theme and involve more and more people – academicians, governments, international agencies. Dialogs should occur in several events. She emphasized that the inventory of funds is already being produced, and it will be socialized by governments and countries.

Cristina: She suggests that the inventory should list the existing and announced funds.

Rosa Mancini: She explains that a discussion forum will be held via Internet, where everyone will be able to suggest questions and debate.

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Governance and Integrated Management of Water Resources

Paulo Varella (ANA) (Annex 13) Speaking on behalf of the Organization of American States - OAS, that is coordinating this key priority at the regional level, and could not attend this meeting, Mr. Varella talked about his role as coordinator of this theme in Brazil. At regional level, two goals have been identified. Target 1 is to

create a network of legislators and media representatives (journalists) to disseminate the importance of integrated management of water. Target 2 is to identify the institutional reforms implemented by the countries of the Americas, highlighting those with financial sustainability and share this progress with everyone (success stories and bottlenecks). In the perspective of this working group, good practices and solutions should be identified, applying the WISE method, mobilizing Brazil, from Oiapoque to Chuí. The purpose is to promote dialogs and consensus at national level and produce the report on the theme: Good Governance and Integrated Water Resources Management. Integrated management considers a process built in a coordinated manner, to improve water management, without damages to ecosystems. In this sense, it aims at promoting economic, social and environmental efficiency. Water is essential to development, but it can also impact on the ecosystem. For Brazil, these two goals cause different impacts. Brazil is almost achieving Target 1, which has been intensively debated by the parliamentarians during the Constituent Assembly. Public consultations and seminars are carried out with the society. We will dedicate most of our efforts in Target 2 and look to share Brazil’s progresses and bottlenecks with the other countries of the Americas. Then, Mr. Varella provided a summary of the history of water management in Brazil, from 1934 to current times. Public policies need to be approached in an integrated manner to achieve good governance. In August 2011, ANA will hold consultation meetings to develop these targets further; in October 2011, it will present its findings to the NWRC; and finally, in November 2011, the report will be presented to the stakeholders attending the national meeting of basin committees and the D7 meeting in Medellin. Debate

Francisco Lobato (Consultant): A conceptual complementation about the integrated management of water resources: we need to understand the conjunction of the 3 methodological and conceptual fields. We have the supervenient variables, which are the environment and the regional development, and the intervenient variables, which are the users (sanitation, energy production, etc.); the territorial scales; the governability, understood as the control in the definition of objectives and goals; and the group of data about water availability. Regarding this point, we don’t have much in South America, there’s little data about availability seasonality, we know little about users, etc. The third point is how to make the inter-sector relation, we understand that we should make different readings of the territory, in our case, the water basin. This

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overlapping of Water Resources Policy, transversally to the others, should guide such readings and that should be the approach of the report on this theme.

Paulo Varella: He observes that Dr. Francisco Lobato was hired by ANA to elaborate the report on integrated management and governance.

Luiz Carlos (City Administration of Manaus): Agreed with Prof. Lobato’s speech, as a study was recently started on two basins that cross Manaus and there was no monitoring data for the work execution; it should be provided, as it’s essential for the management.

Gerôncio Rocha (SMA): he asks if these forums that are elaborating proposals will take into account the priorities of the National Water Resources Plan and the National Sanitation Plan.

Paulo Varella: He informs that this is a Forum of Solutions, then, it has a different variant. But the questioning is correct, a high number of people and experiences should be employed to have a good result. The existing material will be taken into account.

Samuel Barreto (WWF Brasil): The problems for WWF Brasil is the creation of governance indicators. He says that he knows states that have made plans and diagnoses, but these instruments and committees haven’t improved the water quality or quantity. Samuel asks if the policy has been effective and if it has promoted participation and development.

Paulo Varella: He agrees that clear indicators and effective goals are required. In the beginning of this year, a meeting was held with all states. ANA is elaborating management maps, which may become a great national pact. He thinks that an effective management requires clear indicators.

Cristina: She asks if the groups work in an integrated manner, for instance, the Management group with the Climatic Change group.

Paulo Varella: He answers that they intend to integrate everything at the end.

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Protection of freshwater and ecosystem services

Fernando Veiga (TNC) (Annex 14) He thanks for the invitation and says that his speech will be based on his colleagues from Mexico and Costa Rico, who have good experiences and are present there too. The purpose is to show the scope of a theme that presents a strong relation among the environmental services generated by the

ecosystems, strongly connected to water, and a relation with the development, in the broad sense that involves the quality of life of population and everything related to water for population and economic sectors. He presents the two themes, which are: first, environmental flows, which is the sustainable use of water resources in such way to maintain the balance between the aquatic ecosystem and the demands from various users. The second theme is the payment for environmental services, that is, recognition of services generated by ecosystems and reward to those that keep these services in strategic areas for water production. Examples of projects of environmental services in Brazil: Water Producer, coordinated by ANA. Recognition of water service and revenue generation to those who protect and favor cities, users, etc. Group coordination: TNC and WWF, with the participation of FAN. In terms of goal, it proposes that the Latin American countries should recognize by 2015 the environmental services, especially for the conservation of headwaters and recharge areas, and afterwards define strategies to implement such services. Then, we will work on environmental flows and payment systems for environmental service through innovative financial mechanisms, such as that of Water Producer here in Brazil and Water Funds, created by the Andean Nations. Regarding the way to follow, we’ll use the document, which is being produced by Mexico and Costa Rica and will be complemented and strengthened in the process. The idea is to analyze the successful cases, leading to a document with state-of-art data of the region and proposals.

Samuel Barreto (WWF Brasil) (Annex 15) He thanks for the invitation and the opportunity to participate in the Brazilian Section and the possibility to coordinate this theme in Brazil, associated with the regional and global work. He considers that leaving the traditional water management approach behind and proposing a discussion on sustainability is the

greatest challenge. Pulling down walls and moving on, associating social and environmental capital with business, trying to anticipate problems, leaving the control instruments and searching for a preventive and sustainable approach. After that, he presented some exemplary cases. “An emblematic case of misuse is in Aral Sea; this is an example that we have to avoid, its area had a 90% reduction due to excessive exploitation. Another example, which should be included in the document, is the risk associated with lack of water, this is the program of the asparagus production in Peru, whose production system with irrigation requires much water in a place without much rain. The relation between demand and availability should be analyzed for each action. Another example is the case of New Orleans,

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many problems caused by Hurricane Katrina could have been avoided if the natural coastal protection had been conserved.” “This table shows the importance of the ecosystem services that should be protected. The preliminary messages are: we should consider water cycle fragility; water quality; integrity of aquatic systems as an inducer of social promotion; water security and economic development; economic and reputation risks from reduced quality of water and environmental services; change of paradigm in water management, from a traditional viewpoint to sustainability; we should focus on strengthening policies and technical and financial instruments for the protection and management of water resources.” He considers the economic instruments essential, because they’re constant, not sporadic. “This work is starting in Brazil. Here in Brazil, we intend to involve multilateral organizations, the government, NGOs, the private sector, universities and communication vehicles in this work.” He gave some ideas of the scope to be considered, trying to not reinvent the wheel: a) Incorporate the recommendations of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the

broadest evaluation ever made, performed between 2000 and 2005 by the UNO, which defines the criteria to identify priority aquatic ecosystems for the purpose of protection, which were conceived to fulfill the needs of decision makers from the government, companies and the civil society;

b) Incorporate the guidelines of the National Water Resources Plan, which adopts the concept of freshwater ecoregions, environmental flows, associating Water Resources with the Environment;

c) The recommendations of the ecosystem focus seminar promoted by SRHU; consider the concept of environmental flow as an instrument of water resources;

d) Consider the environment as a water user, as Mexico already does, that is, define the minimum flow required for the maintenance of aquatic ecosystems;

e) Consider the economic and social aspects, but also the natural capital. See other recommendations on the PowerPoint presentation. He shows the agenda, which may be revised, because it’s not aligned with the deadlines to submit contributions to Marseille. Debate

Abílio Gonçalves Júnior (SMA-SP): He asks why this type of instrument – payment for environmental services – still hasn’t been incorporated in the planning and policy of water resources in Brazil, as well as the concept of ecological flow.

Fernando Veiga (The Nature Conservancy - TNC): He explained that until some time ago, it was just a theory, only now the payment for environmental services is starting to be practiced. It’s gradually been incorporated in the policy of water resources and many times it’s associated with another economic instrument, which is the charge for water utilization.

Samuel Barreto: He analyzes that the focus on water issues was frequently used, as the system health and its quality were not considered. “Today, we have good examples in the world, such as New York, where the people pay to protect their river spring areas from occupation. He says that the paradigm should be changed, searching for sustainability. Protecting the environmental services is

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promoting the multiple use”, these are his recommendations. The examples of ANA, with the Water Producer, and SMA/São Paulo, with the Water Source, are good and should be replicated.

Francisco Lahoz (PCJ Consortium): He asks if, in the preparation for the 6th Forum, the approach of the extreme events should be more incisive than alarmist.

Fernando Veiga: He thinks that this question is very opportune and is related to the other group that works with adaptations, because the discussion that associates extreme events and ecosystems should continue and the groups should work together.

Samuel Barreto: “This point is relevant, yes, the message should be incisive, the opportunities should be well seized and the facts should be presented to touch the population”, that was his opinion.

Alberto Palombo (RIOB): He said that in Rio 92 a plan was created, which should be followed, but this strategy hasn’t been respected. The ecosystem issue is the best example of lack of objectivity; the knowledge exists, but no action has been made. He asked how to provoke this discussion and how the main entities are dedicating themselves to this issue.

Samuel Barreto: He believes that it’s necessary to create a network for the implementation of procedures, and stop talking to the mirror coordinator. The private initiative should also be involved in this discussion.

Fernando Veiga: He agrees with that. It’s necessary to discuss the questions of economic logic, cost forecast and risk minimization and use the opportunity of Rio + 20.

Bruno Pagnoccheschi (ANA): He reminds that, although they’re thinking of the 6th Forum and Rio + 20, a legislative process has already been initiated, but not yet concluded, related to the WSP and the insertion of water in this context.

Mara Iritani (IG/SMA): She says that a metropolization process is taking place in the State of São Paulo, and she asks how to address this ecosystem issue in a situation like that, associated with climatic change, and protect and assess this situation.

Samuel Barreto: He answers that this is one of the most complex questions in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, the Atlantic Forest reserve in the world’s largest urban complex. He understands that it’s necessary to face the obligations and have stronger power in the State.

Fernando Veiga: “Benefit from the high economic value of water in regions like this”, he suggested.

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Maureen Ballestero (GWP): She thanks the work groups and hopes that they show great experiences in Marseille. Conclusion of first day Maureen Ballestero (GWP)

She believes that the day has been long and profitable. All groups worked effectively, open for more participation. The dynamic will be more intense as the event gets closer. She says that she’s very satisfied with the day. Tomorrow, the discussions will address pending tasks, define future steps and tasks for the next months and define the integration of thematic and regional processes. She congratulates the Brazilians on the organization of this mirror process at regional level and Paulo Varella for all efforts dedicated. Roberto Olivares (ANEAS/WFA)

He states that, through this regional expression of the Forum of the Americas, everyone can speak up or participate. Today, the representation of AIDIS, CEPAL, AQUAFED, FAN, among other organizations, is celebrated. He stated that the social expression should be broader, because the theme is comprehensive, and much support is required. He thanks Maureen and Paulo.

Paulo Varella (ANA)

He calls up all participants to be here tomorrow, at 9 am, when the thematic question will be concluded and the local question will be started. “With this representation present here, the voice of the Americas will be present in Marseille”, he said. June 28, 2011 The day started with the conclusion of debates and instructions regarding the thematic process. Paulo Varella and Roberto Olivares were the work coordinators. The audience presented three central questions:

a) How would the 6 themes be integrated, that is, how would the correlation between the themes be established?

b) What’s the structure of the reports? c) What deadlines should we consider in our work?

With these questions, Roberto Olivares presented the regional document structure, as follows: Roberto Olivares – ANEAS/WFA Roberto Olivares points out that, traditionally, the World Water Forum document, in the 5 Forums held before, was built gradually and was a document elaborated from the compilation of different discussions that occurred along the process. Today, a document of transversal arrangement has been proposed, which includes regional and thematic specificities, based on regional objectives. The leaders that coordinate

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regional objectives should be supported, to enable consistent documents that lead to the best solutions. After that, he presented the arrangement proposal for the regional objective document, which should have the following: 1. Introduction – Methodology and process of document elaboration; max. one

page. 2. Background and goal logic – This session should present the background

(reports, national and international conferences, existing programs, the logic, relevance to the region, urgency and strategy adequacy) of the goal and associated solutions; between two and three pages.

3. Goal Action Plan and commitments – The Goal Action Plan should outline the

strategic steps and cornerstones that should be achieved with the goal, based on the SMART model. It should also present the key commitments already established by the regional goals to support the identified goal and solutions. The commitments may be assumed by politicians (governments, parliamentarians, local authorities), support funds (cooperation agencies, foundations, international credit organizations or institutions (international organizations, NGOs, etc.); between four and five pages.

4. Solutions – Summary of possible or potential solutions. This section should have

an executive summary of the different types of promising solutions for the considered geographical area that were identified by the regional goals or were contributions from stakeholders, and that can help achieve the goal. Links with the digital platform of solutions should be mentioned and developed for details and future reference. As this is a Forum of Solutions, we have to give more attention to this part of the document; between five and seven pages.

5. Follow-up recommendations – This session should describe the key

recommendations of the regional goals for follow-up and monitoring, after March 2012, of both goals and possible solutions; max. three to four pages.

6. Conclusion – View of the group that elaborated the regional document,

especially the expectations and support required to implement the proposed actions; one page.

Total: Max. sixteen to twenty pages. He emphasized that there are 11 regional objectives, which should produce a robust and consistent document that reflects the regional expression, not necessarily of geographical character, but precisely identifies some specific goals of the region and, above all, highlights which themes are being reiterated, for instance, the integrated management of water resources, which is a pending issue that should be strengthened. The deadline for submitting the preliminary regional documents for the different objective is September 23, 2011. These documents will be discussed and analyzed, and should be concluded by November 18, 2011, when the final report for each objective should be presented. By March 2012, a regional document will be concluded, subdivided into regional objectives, fulfilling the guidelines of the 6th Forum, which is a Forum with Solutions.

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In a retrospect of the five previous forums held before, in Morocco (Marrakesh, 1997), Netherlands (Hague, 2000), Japan (Kyoto, 2003), Mexico (Mexico City, 2006) and Turkey (Istanbul, 2009), he pointed out that the first forums resulted in a portfolio of actions and the others enabled the creation of work groups and task force, and in the Forum in Mexico, they discussed the need for analyzing local issues within the global perspective. In Istanbul, the Forum consolidated this idea of connecting regions through bridges over waters in a participative process that proposes solutions and that is aligned with the other regions across the globe.

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Debate

Rosa Mancini: She makes three requests to Roberto Olivares and Paulo Varella: a) The structure for the regional documents and their respective deadlines should be

sent to the coordinators of work groups; b) For the Brazilian coordination, although it has 11 documents, she proposed that

Paulo Varella, as he is the coordinator and governor of the Brazilian Section, should schedule a meeting to promote the interface and interrelation among all themes.

c) She said that it’s no wonder that this event was organized around two processes: the thematic and the local/regional processes, and that connectivity should be established between these two processes. She says that it’s necessary to define how the thematic process impacts the local process; what messages should be included in the reports to enable cities or local authorities to assume these actions. She says that each of the 6 developed themes should include the role of cities and the implementation strategies to local authorities.

Ninon Machado (II/FAN) – She points out that in the Hague Declaration, a principle was adopted, which is the perspective of gender in the management of water resources, and that it high impact on subsequent events. He highlights the expressive presence of women in this event and that, in the water and sanitation issue, the participation of women, elderly people and children is essential. She suggests that the final document of the Americans should have an express reference to the principles of the Hague Declaration, especially concerning the gender issue.

Erasmo de Alfonso (Director, the Americas – AQUAFED/Paris): Considering that the preliminary regional documents should be ready on September 23, 2011 and that the final document should be ready in November, he asks if any meeting will be held in this interval to present the documents of regional objectives.

Paulo Varella: In response to Rosa Mancini’s request for a meeting to promote the interface and interrelation among all themes, he promised to take the issue to the Brazilian Section.

Roberto Olivares: He remembered that, regarding the documents of regional objectives, the meetings are happening, it’s a process in development. The themes are headed by authorities in the respective areas, and for this reason, I wouldn’t think of another meeting besides those scheduled for each theme. It’s important to observe all formats. He also said that each leader of regional objective will receive the dates and places to submit the elaborated documents. Regarding the interconnectivity between thematic and local/regional processes, if the proposed models are followed, it should be present in the documents naturally and spontaneously, as well as the gender issue. Before the session was ended, Alberto J. Palombo, from the Inter-American Water Resources Network, (Annex 16) announces the 7th Meeting, to be organized by the Colombian Government in Medellin, between November 13 to 19, 2011. The central

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theme is: Intergenerational commitment to take care of water. Around 1,600 participants are expected for this meeting. Part of the meeting will be dedicated to discussing the Regional Process of the Forum of the Americas and will have the presence of important authorities from the national scenario and across the Americas. Palombo concludes the presentation putting the meeting agenda at the disposal of the work groups for their meeting planning and requests everyone to consider the possibility of having a meeting of the Forum of the Americas during the 7th Meeting. Local and Regional Authorities The next moment of the meeting was dedicated to discussing local and regional processes, with the purpose of: a) Knowing the experiences and progressing in terms of local and regional political

processes; b) Exchanging experiences between the champion and signatory cities of the

Americas from the Istanbul Water Consensus; c) Defining strategies to promote the champion cities’ activities, aiming at the

inclusion of water issues in the local political agenda; d) Elaborating the list of common problems and identified solutions to be presented

during the 6th World Water Forum; e) Discussing the strategy to be taken to the 6th World Water Forum. Paulo Varella: After that, he speaks about the local and regional processes. He emphasizes that, within this process, the city is absolutely relevant. In Brazil, the water domain is dual: federal and state, and not municipal domain; therefore, this is a theme in evidence, seeking to bring the city into the process, because that’s where we live. For this purpose, some examples of how it may operate will be presented, for instance, Nelton’s example, Cultivating Good Water Program, with more than 29 cities involved in Paraná. The Water Pact in São Paulo is another notable example, with 598 cities involved. Celine Dubreuil will make the other presentation, telling the history until the meeting in Lyon and then Dr. Stella Goldenstein and Celine Dubreuil will conduct a debate to define the goals for the Americas in this process.

Celine Dubreuil (World Water Council) – (Annex 17) She works at the head office of the World Water Council in Marseille and has been responsible for the coordination of local and regional political processes since the previous Forum. She presents the numbers from the previous Forum, when more than 25 thousand people participated in the event: 185 countries, 90

ministers, 250 parliamentarians and 250 local authorities from 43 different countries (see the PowerPoint presentation). In Istanbul, two days were dedicated to local and regional political processes, and the Istanbul Water Consensus, or the IWC, was launched, which named the Champion Cities or Regions, leaders in the process of adhesion to the Istanbul Water Consensus. This is a global document, signed by local and regional authorities, whose intention is to trigger actions related to water problems resulting from global changes, including fast urban growth, lack of access to water, pollution and climatic changes.

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From Istanbul until now, the number of adhesions has grown. Today, 786 cities are participating, and most of them are located in Latin America, more specifically in the State of São Paulo - 598 cities of this State have signed the document, which is impressive. São Paulo adapted the IWC and created the Water Pact. In Paraná, 25 other experiences were presented in Lyon this year. Each signatory is committed to assessing the possible impacts of global changes on water services and selects action priorities, establishes feasible and measurable goals for the implementation and presentation of results in the 6th Forum. It doesn’t involve signing the document only. There are other ways to support the IWC, which produced some documents with recommendations. Slide 9 shows 3 examples of implementation. The role of champion cities or regions is to promote the process, promote the IWC, acting as its ambassador, coordinate a theme of your choice and for which you have exemplary experience and search for cooperation among neighboring cities, acting as leader in the implementation of commitments. Today, there are 13 champion cities or regions (see list on slide 11). Slide 12 shows all steps of adhesion to the IWC. After that, she speaks about the process of local and regional authorities, which seeks to have the recognition of local authorities’ role in the global debate on water. It’s co-coordinated by Mr. Serge Lapentier, former Minister of Environment and Mayor of Bourges/France and Mrs. Margaret Pageler of ICLEI/USA and governor of the World Water Council. The process of local and regional authorities is part of the Political Process, which, in turn, is coordinated by Mr. Philipe Lacoste and Mr. Nagy. The political process, besides the local and regional aspects, also addresses the Ministerial and Parliamentary Processes. The local and regional process has the specific objectives of incrementing the global mobilization of local authorities, the goal is to have 1,000 signatory authorities by 2012, in a more geographically balanced manner; promote the exchange of experiences and contact with experts, when seeking for concrete solutions to local challenges, supporting especially the exchange of experiences between North and South; help the IWC signatories continue with their initial commitments; develop partnerships between local authorities and develop a constructive dialog of local authorities with the ministerial and parliamentarian levels. The intention is to establish a dialog among these three levels. In Istanbul, successful debates were held between parliamentarians and local authorities. In Marseille, interaction is wanted, that is, debate among the 3 levels of the political process. Until then, several meetings will probably be held to encourage the local and regional political process. The case in São Paulo has been broadly disseminated, because this is one of the best cases now, and it was presented in Incheon, in the World City Water Forum, in Cape Town, during the event that celebrated the World Water Day, and in Lyon, during the meeting that launched the local and regional process. A website will be created to monitor the IWC implementation and establish the correlation between the political and the thematic and regional WS processes. The results expected from the 6th Forum are: broader visibility of this process, exceed 1,000 signatory cities, organize a fair of partnerships and experience exchange, list the solutions that were used by the cities (particularly for sanitation), have an event with the champion cities, define a clear and common message to the participants and be recognized in the ministerial statement.

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In May, a launch meeting was held in Lyon, with the presence of 70 new IWC signatories, 250 participants, 28 countries represented. There were representatives from Africa, the Americas (Sorocaba, Paraná) and Europe. There, the 4 actions below were defined and agreed: a) Each country should adopt an effective and decentralized legislation for water

management and allocate financial resources to such purpose; b) The international cooperation should be reinforced between local and regional

authorities that can enable the interchange of innovative financial mechanisms, such as the Udin Santine L’eau, created in France, which allocates 1% of the companies’ budgets to a sanitation fund;

c) Search for more involvement of citizens and the community; d) Create an association of IWC signatories under which they should work together

in the implementation of established commitments. Slide 24 of the PowerPoint presentation shows the steps for a higher involvement in this process. After that, she thanks the participants. Rosa Mancini (officer, Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo): (Annex 18). She presented the experience with the Water Pact of the State of São Paulo, which is a program that supports the Istanbul Water Consensus. She starts her explanation saying that it’s one of few programs in the local and regional process operating at regional level, with the involvement of many cities in the State of São Paulo. She explained that the program development logic is based on three action axes and twenty-one goals and that 598 cities in the State have signed the Istanbul Water Consensus (IWC). All the work is based on a website with online feeds, displaying a map of the State that shows the signatory cities, discriminating those that have signed but haven’t defined their goals from those that have fed the website with their respective goals, and 133 cities have defined their goals. The three axes selected to guide the Water Pact program were based on the main problems of the State of São Paulo. The key problem, which generates the other problems, is the irregular urban occupation. The areas with river springs are occupied by intense urban developments, with the sewage disposal in rivers and the sea. She emphasized that, when the implementation of the millennium goals is assessed in the State of São Paulo, the sewage collection and treatment issue is still at a very low level. Regarding the water supply, practically 90% of the cities are covered, but the sewage collection and treatment issue is very critical in the State. Another unquestionable problem is the improper disposal of waste, which, although CETESB’s encouraging numbers, is still a reason for concern. Regarding the deforestation issue and the consequent aggradation of water bodies, it still occurs and is a very serious problem in the State as a whole. Based on these problems, the Water Pact program was created to fulfill the IWC principle and organize and mobilize the State towards these key themes, and then the three action axes were defined. The first one is Water and Sanitation, which covers water treatment, sewage collection and treatment and waste disposal, which are the three key themes to which goals will be proposed. The second one is Green Areas, whose purpose is, on the one side, collect municipal information about the green areas, and on the other side, define some goals to the cities especially related to the protection of river springs and plantation of riparian forests for water protection. Therefore, one of the axes addresses sanitation (sewage treatment

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works) and the other refers to a very environmental area of water protection. The third group to fulfill the IWC principle is that the city administration, by analyzing the local problems, should define specific goals that may be related to freshwater reduction, environmental education program; it can be any action the city administration considers important to the city. The hot site of the Water Pact program has the following characteristics: a) Each IWC signatory city has a password; b) With this password, the cities can feed the website with their information; c) The website shows the following information: the basin to which the city belongs;

the city’s population; the company that operates the sanitation system in the city; the 21 proposed actions; the city status in 2009 regarding these proposals; goals for 2011. Although this is a near future, the idea is to encourage the action. A status update should have been made in 2010, but it was not possible, due to the election period, the election legislation didn’t allow to view the website. And now, starting in August 2011, the 2011 status column will be included, to enable each city to feed the website with 2011 information. Later, an analysis of 2009 status will be performed, checking their commitments and what they actually performed.

The Water Pact is a way to insert the environmental agenda, the water agenda, in the city. At the Secretariat for Environment of the State of São Paulo, the Green and Blue City program was the great driver of the Water Pact, because the State of São Paulo already presents strong mobilization for the environmental agenda, and the water agenda was incorporated in the Green and Blue City program. The sanitation goals are: a) Water supply; b) Sewage collection; c) Sewage treatment; d) ICTEM – Sewage Collection and Treatment Indicator of the City Urban Population

(defined and evaluated annually by CETESB); e) IQR – Waste Landfill Quality Index (evaluated annually by CETESB); f) Sanitation plan stipulated in the national sanitation policy. The goals of green areas are, on the one side, searching for information on the existence of municipal protected area and, on the other side, encouraging programs for headwater and riparian forest protection. And the goal of the third group is to make the cities think of their problems and define the actions they consider adequate. The meeting in Istanbul was in March 2009, and the Water Pact program was launched in June 2009, in an event with Secretary Xico Graziano, that had the presence of the governor and many mayors. Afterwards, came the launch of a program that was practically a translation of the IWC. After that, and involving all sectors of both sanitation and green areas and people interested in the water theme, the 21 goals were defined. They were collectively made definitions. After that, the didactic promotional material explaining the program was produced and the system to feed goals started operating, and several meetings were held, with around 800 participants, to explain how to feed the system. Then, most cities started to effectively feed the system. After that, the process assessment criteria were defined, through Resolution SMA 53 of the Secretariat for the Environment of the State of São Paulo, which stipulates the rules. Eight qualification courses were provided to 645 cities in the State, with the participation of more than 1,500 people, who were trained on the following subjects:

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a) Sanitation, considering that the city selects sanitation service providers. The first part of the course provided instructions on how the city administrations can make good agreements with the sanitation service providers;

b) Water and forest; c) Planning; d) Legislation; e) Elaboration of projects. This course had the participation of a high number of cities, covering the whole State. In June, the Water Pact hot site was redesigned for easier access and search for information. Information about the Champion City, the Champion Region and the qualification course material were included. This is a hot site that will be constantly updated. In addition, an electronic newsletter was launched, named Making a Pact. The first issue of this newsletter published the new website launch, the journal and the mayors are already sending thank-you messages and asking when the 2011 column will be created. The next issue will bring the 2011 agenda, with information about the column creation and the next course that will be provided to all city administrations about Climatic Change. The deadline for the cities to feed the website is in October and the scoring will happen in November; in December, the 3 cities classified as the best in the State of São Paulo within the Water Pact program will be announced. Trip funding will be required, as the program proposes to send the 3 best cities to Marseille to show their work. We intend to take the result of this program to Marseille, to show the work developed by the 3 cities and emphasizing the importance of an intergovernmental action. It’s necessary to propose solutions; regarding this point, in the State of São Paulo as a whole, sanitation plans have been elaborated, as stipulated by law, and these plans address prevention and definition of priorities. The resources correspond to around 60 million reais per year, including the PAC, the State budget or specific financial funds, such as FEHIDRO. SMA has activities of environmental monitoring and licensing, as well as special programs, such as Minimum Trash or Selective Collection. For sewage collection, the results are not satisfactory: an improvement of 5% only in sewage treatment. Regarding the disposal of urban solid waste, the results are better: only 25 cities of the State have improper waste disposal. For reforestation and basin recovery, we have programs of payment for environmental service (PES) developed by the SMA, the Riparian Forest Program and a joint effort for tree plantation, and the best example of that is the City Administration of Sorocaba. In the last 4 years, 397 thousand hectares of forest have been recovered and, among 29 experiences in Brazil with PES, 6 are in the State of São Paulo. Regarding the irregular occupation, SMA is working on the land use and occupation zoning; and this area should be encouraged, with more basis presenting effectively implemented EEZ (ecological economic zoning). The elaboration of drainage plans has been encouraged by the basin committees, and programs of slum area urbanization have been created and implemented by the city administrations, as well as the removal of population from risky areas – that’s what happened in Serra do Mar region. Rosa Mancini ends her presentation, highlighting that many efforts have been made to implement and monitor the Water Pact program to have effective results and actually enable to take the water environmental agenda to all city administrations.

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Nelton Friedrich (Itaipu – State of Paraná - Cultivating Good Water Project): He starts his presentation paying a tribute to Rosa Mancini and her team and emphasizes the efforts required to organize an event with the presence of representatives from several countries and several experts. He highlights the presence of Mr. Elcio Luiz Zimmermann, Mayor of Entre Rios do Oeste, which is among the 29 cities that participate in the Cultivating Good Water Program of

Paraná Basin III. Among the main problems in the region of the cities near Itaipu, Nelton pointed out the high deforestation rate in western Paraná, with consequent soil erosion, and the frequent utilization of agrochemicals, which is another problem in the region. The program covers the Water Basin with its more than 1,680 river springs, emphasizing the shared responsibility and building an integrated management structure of the Program, with the engagement of local actors. It has 1,320 participants as heads of management committees of the Cultivating Good Water Program in the cities. The involvement in the creation process of the Cultivating Good Water Program changed the Itaipu management view to a more systemic view, considering the economic, ecological and social issues and building a new view of the institutional mission of Binational Itaipu. The Social-Environmental Knowledge and Care Center of the River Plate Basin was built with the following guidelines: Water as the integrator, the River Plate Basin as the operational territory, the environmental thought as the concept for the action, the environmental education as a social and political mobilization tool, the collective construction of knowledge, actions and organization. Another integrated program is the Cultivating Porã Water, with international articulation. The program has recovered more than 70 micro basins and 30 are in recovery process. The program concept and methodology can be replicated. The program implementation phases are: a) Micro basin selection; b) Creation of Management Committee; c) Future Workshops; d) Partnership Agreements; e) Water Pact Program; f) Signature of Associations; g) Results/Action/Assessments. Each city has a municipal collective educator and a collective educator from all 29 cities with 10,400 actors in environmental education. A water, life and sustainability regional parliamentary front of Paraná River Basin III was created. To finish his presentation, he showed some results (which can be seen in Annex 19): a) Readapted Roads; b) Recovery of Headwater Areas; c) Biodiversity Corridor; d) Community Engagement; e) Social inclusion through the creation of agroecological and family agriculture

cooperatives; f) Indigenous community involvement.

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Elcio Luiz Zimmermann (Mayor, Entre Rios do Oeste): He said that one of the 29 cities that participate in the Cultivating Good Water Program declared that the program is providing changes in the community, in the way of thinking and acting of all communities. “The way of thinking and acting is directly connected to a management committee, which, in our city, is composed of 120 entities. After the changes in the relation with water, the quality of

life in the city improved.” “A waste monitoring project is developed in parallel in agriculture to produce biogas. Programs of river spring recovery have also been developed. We follow ways to produce and cultivate water in our region”, he says. Roberto Olivares (ANEAS/WFA): Mexico was represented by Roberto Olivares in the presentation of Leon experience (Annex 20). Olivares starts saying that he was in a better position, because he was representing Mr. Emiliano Rodriguez Viceño, Vice President of ANEAS, who registered León as a candidate for Champion City. We’re working together on the Potable Water and Sanitation Law, a project that is in the Senate for approval, of regulatory character and with strong guidelines on governability and governance. He starts the presentation showing the general data of Mexico (slide 2), country with population of 112 million people and whose water availability and quality have declined. Regarding Leon, this is a country city in the central region of the country that belongs to the State of Guanajuato, with population of one million and five hundred thousand people, and that produces 32% of the GDP. Its main economic activity is the production of leather-footwear products, which causes high water pollution. Leon is located in Lerma-Santiago Basin, one of the nine most contaminated basins in Mexico, and that’s why it’s important to work on the theme of waste water treatment for river contamination control, reuse and flood control. The focus is on the goals that the city has defined: flood control through the construction of dams, construction of rainwater and sewage collection systems, expansion of water treatment station, construction of plants in the periphery and construction of infrastructure for water reuse. He indicates in the map on slide 7 the location of water treatment stations and data of treated water amount on slide 8. He shows the largest waste water treatment plant and the treatment progress (slide 9). He shows the waste water depuration station, which serves 9 industrial areas and the treatment progress, with increasingly better COD and BOD levels. After that, he shows the municipal plant of waste water treatment and the complexity of this process. Biogas has been produced as a byproduct of this process, through sludge anaerobic digestion, that’s around 16,000 m3 per day. The construction of a plant for thermal and electric power production started in 2010. This energy cogeneration process corresponds to almost 6 million tons of CO2 a year. These plants are producing 75% of the energy required to operate the waste water treatment stations. These processes have also been implemented in the agriculture, where plans have been made for the construction of 15 treatment plants in the rural areas of the city, a result of the association of SAPAL with the Rural Development Board. There are general values about the reuse water utilization: 779 L/s for agriculture irrigation, 150 L/s for industrial processes and 140 L/s for green area watering.

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Regarding the purposes and goals, he emphasized the following needs: encourage higher use of treated water to stabilize the demand for potable water; reduction of aquifer exploration by reorganizing the water market in the cities; control and administration of industrial discharges by supporting the creation of industrial complexes and relocation of plants and incentive to treated water use in all sectors of the economy. After that, he presented the goals for treated water use (slide 19). He emphasizes that, due to the economic, environmental and social benefit that it represents, the treated water use should be considered as a fortress to large cities. Regarding the implications of Istanbul Pact, Leon, as mentioned before, is aligned with its guidelines, as sanitation is as important as water supply and should be included in the priorities of local, regional and national governments. To finish his speech, he invites everyone to visit Leon and know the good leather products manufactured there. Debate The debate theme was how to relate regional goals with the guidelines for local and regional process. Stela Goldenstein, special officer of the Division of Metropolitan Development, and Celine Dubreuil, of the World Water Council, were invited to moderate the debate.

Stela Goldenstein: She greets everyone and says that a phase of dialog is starting now, with the purpose of detailing and systematize the contribution of the Americas to the World Water Forum. She reminds that the systematization of goals is in everyone’s folders and that it’s been developed by the spheres of parliamentarians, politics, national authorities, local and regional

action groups; the latter being our focus. She commented that, based on this plan or list of goals (Annex 3), which is a large map that should guide our navigation, Celine will identify the issues, the main goals of local and regional character for the 6 themes presented here yesterday, which should correlate with the local and regional process. She will provoke the audience, identifying those goals to which this audience can give a more realistic contribution, at this level of our discussion. “The Americas are our territory, our goals are these ones, and we’ll define the correlations with the local and regional process”, said the moderator. Celine Dubreuil (Annex 21): From the list of goals that have been defined so far, the Executive Secretary of the International Committee for the 6th Forum identified those that specifically address the parliamentary and local and regional authority processes. From this list, 3 goals are chosen, those related to the process of local authorities of the Americas, and to start the debate, these are as follows: the first goal that involves the local authorities of the Americas is 1.1, ensure the access and right to water to everyone. It details that, by 2012, all countries of the Americas should be aware of the implications and principles of the declaration of water and sanitation as human rights, and by 2015, 25% more of the countries in the region should have a formal plan for the implementation of these rights. The local authorities are key actors for the implementation of water as a human right. The second goal that involves local authorities is 1.2 improve the access to integrated sanitation services to everyone. As described that by 2012, good management and practices of public policies should be disseminated to promote

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increased efficiency of water and sanitation services in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. The third goal that involves local and regional authorities is related to theme 3.3 respond to climatic changes in an urbanized world, that is, between March 2009 and March 2015, encourage the specific inclusion of water resources in 10% of new or existing adaptation plans and in 10% nationwide of local adaptation plans in the Americas. She said that everyone is free to rewrite these goals, define other goals or add other goals to this basic list of 3 items. Stela Goldenstein: These three items that Celine suggested have a very clear connection to the municipal assignments. I want to emphasize that Celine told me that the Forum Secretariat, at a certain moment, gathered, discussed and defined these three proposals that are in the scope of local and regional spheres. Local and regional spheres are not the same thing and the articulation between them occurs differently, due to each country’s institutional structures, how the federations or unit States are structured in each country of the Americas. And, as in each country, the local issues establish associations, become organized and reflect the issues of water basins – because our primordial unit of water management discussion is about water basins -, how the issues are expressed locally and regionally and how they articulate in these two spheres. We have to develop the following issues:

1. The targets identified by Celine Dubreuil; 2. What other issues seem to be in the scope of local and regional spheres; 3. How the action instruments and mechanisms work in local and regional spheres

to achieve these goals and any other that may be developed; 4. Think of how the organization will work to address all these issues and any other

that appears, within the deadlines provided.

Maureen Ballestero: She asks how the articulation occurs of local and regional authorities with the thematic process and the political process and how local authorities can help achieve the goals.

Stela Goldenstein: She observes that, the process established for the World Water Forum offers several mechanisms for the participation of local and regional governments in goal achievement, but she complements the question made by Maureen Ballestero with the following question for consideration: After the Forum is finished, the goals are defined, the discussion process is ended, how to change the result of this process into local policies?

Alberto Palombo: He said that there are many studies, documents, experiences that should be incorporated in the process.

Stela Goldenstein: He thinks Mr. Palombo’s proposal is important and suggests that proposals should be made on how to consolidate this group of experiences, studies, documents, all this discussion process. Besides that, how to give a format to this mature assembly that enables to dialog with this process established here.

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Alberto Palombo: He answers that all these documents are available at several websites in Internet, posted on relatively recent dates.

César Seara: He highlights the fact that, on the first day of the meeting, the goals proposed at the regional level were presented, and that somehow do not match the previous proposals 1.1 and 1.2, as explained in our presentation. Then, he asked if the proposition will be accepted and, if accepted, how this revision will be performed.

Victor Ayrosa: Answering César Seara’s question, Victor says that there’s a new approach being proposed, that’s why it’ll be necessary to start a new discussion with all the members of the work groups to evaluate these alterations and reach a consensus.

Stela Goldenstein: She says that Celine has some difficulty in this focus, as theses goals have been intensely discussed and a revision would require new discussions, which would make the process more difficult.

Luiz Carlos Mestrinho (Manaus – AM): He suggests that the articulation of local authorities should be through local government networks, that operate in UNO’s networks, national networks such as the National Confederation of Municipalities, among others.

Ninon Machado: She says that each country has its political structure, with differences between federative and unit countries, and their respective relations with water and sanitation issues. This point may cause some imprecision in the theme of Water as a human right and its effectiveness, considering that the cities perform the implementations. She also highlights the principles of Dublin, which considers Water Basins as a planning unit.

Samuel Barreto: He makes the following questions: a) Has the interlocution with economic instruments been considered; b) How to ensure financial viability; c) What type of suggestion can the Forum give to have any level of financial

commitment, any financial instrument to make these goals viable.

Stela Goldenstein: She summarizes the debate in three central issues: a) It’s necessary to standardize the meaning of region. Some say Water Basin,

others say metropolitan region, others say nation, others say continent. b) After the goals are established, it’s necessary to discuss with the cities, and the

regional structures can and should assume the commitment to implement them, within agreed deadlines.

c) How we want to see that being addressed in Marseille.

César Seara: He says that everyone want Water and sanitation to everyone. However, it’s necessary to define how.

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Alberto Palombo: He highlights that the discussion is on what, how, when, where and who regarding the implementation of the goals being discussed. And emphasizes that, regarding where, the water basin is the territory and water management and planning unit, an internationally recognized concept. The basin should be the place for the actions, where the developments should occur, considering the natural limitations. He also says that guidelines should be used instead of goals.

Gerôncio Rocha: He emphasizes that he was before more worried about how the report would be at the level of the Forum of the Americas. The first thing that would have to be agreed is related to what local and regional mean. Local should be defined as a municipal level, because the actions of local nature occur in the cities. And regional would refer to broader scales at geographical level and political level, for instance, state and provincial would be understood as regional. The principle of water basin is essential. But, in a document produced at local and regional levels, that would be a major political commitment of the government at federal, state and city levels. The purpose is not a technical study. He makes two proposals: First Proposal: The definition of regional should have very flexible, including political divisions by basins, biomes, etc. Second Proposal: The 11 goals of this program should keep as a consensus, because they’re the result of a process, except for the quantitative issues, which are not so significant. Stela Goldenstein: If the Forum in Marseille has the focus of Solutions, then it should have administrative structures of the government as a pivot. Then, that’s the reason for establishing goals for the local and regional governments and ensuring instruments to have interpenetration between these institutional structures with the management and planning platform to each basin. She agrees that it’s necessary to reconsider the maintenance or not of the quantitative aspects of goals.

Gerôncio Rocha: He thinks these 11 goals should be regionalized in the country’s 5 macro regions.

Francisco Lobato: He highlights the importance of interaction between local and regional processes. Regarding the goals, it’s important to remember a concept named logical framework to build the goals. Indicators should exist for each goal, some with local aspects, others with regional aspects. Goals are many times averages and we can only have the consistency of goals if we have the consolidation of local and regional aspects. Regarding the regional question, he says that there’s an overlapping of scales. He mentions the example of Paraná Basin, which has regions such as High Tiete and Pantanal. To manage such diversity, he proposes the utilization of an European concept named variable geometry. The water basin is not necessarily a management unit, there are strategic management units, depending on the type of problems; therefore, we can’t consider the concept of water basin. The concept of planning units is related to the territory readings in scales that superimpose in different territory readings.

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Stela Goldenstein: She says that it’s time to make a strategic decision or work on the structure proposed in the beginning of the event, or propose a new direction. But, she observes that we don’t have conditions to propose another direction to the group of participants of the Forum in Marseille until October 2011.

Rosa Mancini: She says that today, the strongest instrument in the local and regional process is the Istanbul Water Consensus, the tool to establish this articulation of water issue with the local government. In this sense, it’s necessary to discuss what other tools are available. Our great challenge is: how the water subject can be addressed in a more strategic and political manner.

Maureen Ballestero: She thinks that it’s important to make adjustments in the goals to consider the questions that have appeared, but she emphasizes that the time is short.

Neusa Marcondes: Resuming the conceptual discussion about the implementation unit for the goals, she says that the concepts are misunderstood. The political concept is one thing and the geographical concept is another thing. If the aspects planned to the basin are not assumed by the decision makers from local government, the plans will not be effective.

Cristina Ribeiro (Federal District Government): She highlights that goals will be discussed in Marseille, we have to know how we will perform them and with what resources; otherwise, they’re not goals, but guidelines to administrators.

Stela Goldenstein: She asks everyone to search for ways to ensure concreteness to the proposals of plans, to know how to promote such dialog between the different political instances and the different spheres, always considering the water basin. He emphasizes that the World Water Forum doesn’t have the same model as that for the United Nations Forum, whose deliberations become the nations’ commitments, but each country participating in this discussion has to agree with the established commitment.

Rosa Mancini: Strategies to place cities closer to each other should be developed and how these high demands will come to the city should be established. The World Water Forum is a forum to take strong messages. She said that action and communication strategies should be established.

Stela Goldenstein: She proposes to return to Celine’s proposal and work on the 3 selected goals: a) by 2012, all countries of the Americas should be aware of the implications and

principles of the declaration of water and sanitation as human rights, and by 2015, 25% more of the countries in the region should have a formal plan for the implementation of these rights;

b) improve the access to integrated sanitation services to everyone. As described that by 2012, good management and practices of public policies should be

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disseminated to promote increased efficiency of water and sanitation services in urban, peri-urban and rural areas;

c) respond to climatic changes in an urbanized world, that is, between March 2009 and March 2015, encourage the specific inclusion of water resources in 10% of new or existing adaptation plans and in 10% nationwide of local adaptation plans in the Americas.

Jussara Carvalho: She emphasizes that, when one gets to know the Water Pact that derives from Istanbul and sees the number of adhesions to the IWC, some closeness to the local level can be noted, but higher closeness is required. Among the cities that have adhered to the Water Pact, only 133 have quantifiable goals. For this reason, a communication and dissemination strategy should be created for these themes and a strategy to approach the city or local authorities. How can we adjust these goals in such way to make sense to the city, that’s her question.

Stela Goldenstein: She proposes three contribution lines that would support the key steps that have been planned: a) Each thematic group should identify a strategy to be closer to local and regional

authorities, regarding three axes: sensitization, technical and financial support and co-responsibility of local authorities with the involved sectors;

b) The best practices should be developed to each of the 6 regional themes; c) A mechanism to communicate and disseminate the problems and implemented

solutions should be proposed.

Gerôncio Rocha: He says that these recommendations should be forwarded to the thematic groups, for them to incorporate such recommendations and produce information.

Rosa Mancini: She recommends that each thematic group should organize their discussions and incorporate them in their respective processes and documents.

Alberto Palombo: He says that it’s necessary to create a vehicle to transmit the Forum recommendation to local and regional authorities. He proposes the Inter-American Water Resources Network to be such vehicle.

Stela Goldenstein: She emphasizes the recommendations related to communication, for the official networks and the civil society networks: a) Civil society – the support of the Freshwater Action Network (FAN) is

recommended; b) Local and regional authorities – the support of the Inter-American Water

Resources Network (IWRN) is recommended.

Gerôncio Rocha: He proposes that the goals that mention numbers should have a more desirable formulation, directed to service universalization, particularly regarding the water and sanitation theme.

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Stela Goldenstein: She says that we should take to the groups our concerns about the percentage formulation of countries that should achieve goals and request a revision of that, identifying guidelines broad enough, and at the same time, with better clarification of the goal of water and sanitation universalization as human rights.

Paulo Varella: He showed to be satisfied with the result of the meeting and committed himself to continued efforts to make this process even more inclusive. He thanks everyone for their presence and especially Rosa Mancini for her efforts to organize the meeting.

Benedito Braga: To close the meeting, he said that this meeting showed not only the engagement of Brazilians, but of colleagues from other countries of the Americas. He said that it’s important to have the quantitative data of goals, but that the number should be analyzed by the respective work groups. He said that it’s important to show the way to achieve the goals. He emphasizes that this is the Time for Solutions. This meeting had the participation of several local and regional authorities, which shows the political engagement of the State of São Paulo and the federal government. And it’s the political engagement that brings the possibility of finding the solutions. He thanks Rosa Mancini for her efforts and highlights the importance of institutionalizing the Forum of the Americas. He thanks everyone for their presence.

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June 29, 2011 To continue the local and regional process, a visit was made to Sorocaba, candidate for the Water Champion City. The purpose of the visit was to learn about the recovery program of urban water basins, developed by the city and performed in partnership with universities, municipal companies and NGOs. We left São Paulo at 8 am with Jussara Carvalho, Secretary for the Environment, who during the trip, spoke a little about Sorocaba’s characteristics and vocation. At 9:30 am we were received at the City Hall by Mayor Vitor Lippi. There, he made a preliminary presentation of the visit, highlighting the situation of the city 10 years ago and its current situation. The presentation made by the Mayor is attached (Annex 22). After that, the Mayor took the participants to a city tour, including the history of each visited place, as follows: 1) Linear park of Sorocaba River (bike lane, observation deck, fishing place, etc.). 2) Initiative of riparian forest recovery: production of seedlings in the jailhouse,

qualification of former prisoners on park and garden maintenance. 3) Mega plantation: Campaign of seedling plantation. 4) Linear parks – connectivity and flood control in the basin area. (Annex 23) link for web TV - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkt1ykD7428

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Executive Summary

Preparatory Meeting of the Americas The Secretariat for the Environment of the State of São Paulo promoted, on June 27 and 28, the Preparatory Meeting of the Americas for the 6th World Water Forum, which had 90 participants from 8 countries. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss a strategy for the representation of the Americas in the theme of water resources management.

The exchange of information between the countries and the measures implemented in several regions were part of the discussions, which now will structure the document of the Americas, with solutions for water issues.

This document will be presented in 2012 in the largest event across the globe on this theme, the World Water Forum, whose sixth edition will be held in Marseille, France. “It’s important to show the rest of the world an effective participation of the Americas and show that the interest in this common asset is above any particular intention”, said Paulo Varella.

Organized by the World Water Council (WWC) and the host country, the Forum is held each three years, and the next one will have the theme of “Time for Solutions”. The Forum is built from the contributions provided by four regions: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa and Americas. Each region will present its priorities and suggestions for a better water management to everyone in the world. “The preparatory process seeks to promote the wide participation of all stakeholders in four processes: thematic, regional, political and citizen, identifying concrete actions that help solve the water issues and proposing medium-term and long-term measures”, highlighted Prof. Benedito Braga. As the theme suggests, it’s time for solutions, and the preparatory meeting was focused on the definition of goals and implementation strategy for the six priority themes of the Americas: water for energy, water and sanitation, water and climatic changes, governance and integrated management of water resources, food security and protection of freshwater and ecosystem services.

The challenge now is to establish common objectives to the whole continent, considering the geographical and cultural diversity. “It’s important to get to Marseille with a consensus”, says Maureen Ballestero, who is responsible for the commission of regional goals for the Water Forum of the Americas.

Samuel Barreto, representative of WWF-Brasil, explained that the problems are already known. “We have the legislation, now we need to enforce them to effectively achieve a common objective”, he said.

This process will end in March 2012, when the 6th World Water Forum will be held.

For further information, visit the websites: http://www.worldwaterforum6.org http://www.ana.gov.br http://www.ambiente.sp.gov.br/wp/pactodasaguas/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkt1ykD7428 Objectives of the event a) Promote the integration of the representatives of the Americas in such way to strengthen

our position in the 6th World Water Forum; b) Integrate procedures for the construction of the Report of the Americas regarding the six

priority themes that have been defined: sanitation, climatic changes, energy, food security, integrated management and governance; protection of freshwater and ecosystem services;

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c) Mobilize local and regional authorities for water protection issues, to make such themes included in their respective agendas;

d) Verify, in loco, an experience of local water management, with a visit to the city of Sorocaba.

Thematic process: from goals to solutions

Towards the 6th World Water Forum: Benedito Braga

He emphasized the combined efforts of the World Water Council and the government of France, particularly of Marseille, to organize this event, whose slogan will be Time for Solutions. He said that the problems are already known and that they should be solved locally. He said that it’s necessary to involve other sectors that interfere in the water theme. He reminds that the work has been developed following the SMART principles, that is, Specific, Measurable, Achievable and Time-bound goals should be established, with the participation of everyone, and that’s the meaning of WISE (which also stands for smart): Wide Involvement, Stakeholder Engagement.

The Committee, composed of 11 members, is organized into 4 commissions/processes, coordinated as follows: Political process Philippe Lacoste (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MAE/France) and András Szollosi-Nagy (Institute for Water Education - UNESCO-IHE). Regional process Eunkyung Park (Korea Water Forum - KWF) and Maurice Bernard (French Development Agency – AFD). Thematic process Dogan Altinbilek (International Hydropower Association – IHA) and Patrick Lavarde (National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environments – ONEMA/France). Citizen process Martine Vassal (City Administration, Marseille/France) and Hachmi Kennou (Mediterranean Water Institute – IME). Three conditions required for a successful Forum were discussed - good governance, funding and suitable environment for the execution of actions - and the 12 priority actions.

Thematic Process of the Americas: Maurren Balestero She listed the six themes of the Americas and their respective coordination: a) Guaranteed access to water and sanitation: IDB and ABDIB. b) Climatic Changes and Water: IDB/CONAGUA SMA-SP. c) Governance and Integrated Management of Water Resources: OAS and ANA. d) Food Security: University of, IICA and DNOCS. e) Water and Energy: American Water Resources Association (AWRA) and

Odebrecht/Binational Itaipu. f) Protection of water and ecosystem services: TNC and WWF-Brasil. She explained that, for each theme, goals (one or two) and a roadmap should be defined and the basic timetable should be followed, with the preliminary product concluded by September 2011. She presented a form template for recording existing or innovative solutions. Each group should identify three to five solutions per goal, which should be varied (from private, public, rural, urban sectors). “The last stage is to elaborate a report to each goal and make a document of the Americas”, said Maurren Balestero. Energy: Gabriel Azevedo Gabriel Azevedo, responsible for the theme of Water and Energy, informed that two goals were established to the region (the Americas):

Goal 1 - by 2012, create a collaboration system for Water and Energies, for the coordination of subregional policies, guides and analyses of best practices to promote the interdependence of water and energy; it attempts to consolidate good experiences and consolidate systems to disseminate such experiences.

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Goal 2 - by 2015, perform an inventory to develop technology guides, handling systems and more efficient and sustainable practices to be used in the energy sector.

Brazil’s priorities:

a) First theme: Energy expansion planning – as the potential of Brazil and most of the other South American countries is in the Amazon Basin, we have to think of these opportunities and define when, what and how to do it, we have to think of positive and negative cumulative impacts, long-term impacts and decision-making strategies.

b) Second theme: Energy integration agreements – it is part of the agenda of many countries and should be included in lour list of priorities, because it is already the subject of negotiations.

c) The third theme is linked with technology agreements for the implementation of new hydroelectric power plants and many good things have happened in this sector.

d) The fourth and last theme is a cluster of subjects linked with the social-environmental factors of hydroelectric power plants: biodiversity, local communities and benefits related to the balance of GHG emissions.

Food Security: Beekman & Eymard

The presentation informed that this program has structural axes for the access to water and structuring actions. The program has the purpose of constructing one million water tanks and its structuring actions intend to enable the access, reduce distances and solve other specific questions related to semiarid regions. The DNOCS has broad experience with protein production through fish farm within dikes, and it’s aligned with our work group’s guideline of increasing food production.

Sanitation: Arroyo & Samper & Gerli

Regarding the theme of Guaranteed access to water and sanitation, Goal 1 is to make all countries of the Americas understand all implications of the human right to water and have 25% of the countries with a formal work plan for the implementation of the rights to water. Goal 2 is to identify the good practices in public policies to increase the efficiency of water services and sewage. The presentation informed that analyses were performed of each country’s situation. Each country was evaluated considering 3 conditions: governability, funding and favorable environment, as well as each country’s own characteristics. She informed that the analysis considered documents and reports available in each country and those of the Inter-American Development Bank, which funded several studies on the theme and strategic plans of the sector between 2007 and 2010. Then, the scenario of the sector in the Americas was obtained. Based on this analysis and studies, it was possible to define goals and proposals, which will be discussed in the seminars by all stakeholders. The contribution of ABDIB is as follows: Proposal regarding Goal 1: in around 2012, the countries are expected to recognize water and sanitation as human rights and be formally committed to the achieving the universal access to water and sanitation. Regarding Goal 2: in around 2020, at least half of countries should work to reduce the existing gap in the access to water and 50% should double the treated sewage percentage. Climatic Changes: Fuentes and Mancini For this theme, the presentation informed that two goals were defined, which will be taken to the World Water Forum: The first one, coordinated by the IDB, is the inventory of Adaptation Actions of the Americas – programs and initiatives.

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The second goal is to make the countries start their adaptation plans. The water theme is essential, it should be inserted in this plan, and there should be institutional strengthening. Establish the relation between the water theme and public health and sanitation. The presentation informed that the inventory of exemplary measures is on the IDB website. Regarding the adaptation plans, the analysis should be made in 2015, for the next Forum, to evaluate the measures taken by then. Next steps: see the schedule of events until Rio +20 in the PowerPoint presentation; event of women and water. The conclusion highlighted that water is a transversal resource, it cannot be addressed as a sector, water is related to adaptation and mitigation, it should be considered as an integrator. The Adaptation Plans should be based on this perspective. Joining regional and global efforts is essential. Concerning Brazil, they informed that on June 3rd, 2011, a roundtable discussion was held at the SMA with 33 nationally and internationally renowned experts, who defined the conceptual bases of the work regarding this theme. During the event organization, a proposal was produced for an inventory of adaptation actions to Brazil, which was tested and later adapted to that of the BID, mentioned by Estrellita Fuentes. In the roundtable discussion, 17 recommendations were defined, which are correlated with the 3 most common situations/problems concerning water, which are: flood, drought and coastal zone alterations. After that, these recommendations were placed into 5 categories of adaptation actions: data and information production, urban and rural infrastructure, economic activities, social communication and legal/institutional strengthening. At the end, the persons responsible for the actions will be identified. Integrated Management and Governance: Varella Varella informed that, at the regional level, two goals were identified. Goal 1 is to create a network of legislators connected with the media (journalists) to disseminate the importance of integrated management of water. Goal 2 is to identify the institutional reforms implemented by the countries of the Americas, highlighting those with financial sustainability and share this progress with everyone (cases of success and difficulties). In the perspective of the OAS group, good practices and solutions should be identified, applying the WISE method, mobilizing Brazil, from Oiapoque to Chuí. Dialogs and consensuses should be promoted involving the whole country and the report on the theme: Good Governance and Integrated Management should be produced. For Brazil, these two goals cause different impacts. Regarding Goal 1, Brazil is almost achieving the purpose, as the parliamentarians intensively debated this subject during the constituent assembly. Dialogs occur with the society through seminar and debates. For Goal 2, that’s where most efforts will be placed, to share Brazil’s progresses and difficulties with the other countries of the Americas. Protection of Water and Ecosystem Services: Veiga & Barreto The presentation explained that the purpose was to show the scope of a theme that presents a strong relation among the environmental services generated by the ecosystems. The two themes on which TNC and WWF-Brasil will work were presented: environmental flows, which is the sustainable use of water resources in such way to maintain the balance between the aquatic ecosystem and the demands from various users, and the payment for environmental services, that is, recognition of services generated by ecosystems and reward to those that keep these services in strategic areas for water production. The also informed that, in terms of goal, the proposal is that the Latin American countries should recognize by 2015 the environmental services, especially for the conservation of headwaters and recharge areas, and afterwards define strategies to implement such services.

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They mentioned some ideas of the scope to be considered: incorporate the recommendations of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the broadest evaluation ever made, performed between 2000 and 2005 by the UNO, which defines the criteria to identify priority aquatic ecosystems for the purpose of protection; incorporate the guidelines of the National Water Resources Plan, which adopts the concept of freshwater ecoregions, environmental flows, associating Water Resources with the Environment; the recommendations of the ecosystem focus seminar promoted by SRHU; consider the concept of environmental flow. Conclusions and issues to be forwarded regarding the thematic process The audience presented three central questions:

How would the 6 themes be integrated, that is:

a) how would the correlation between the themes be established?;

b) What’s the structure of the reports?;

c) What deadlines should we consider in our work?.

With these questions, Roberto Olivares presented the regional document structure, as follows: A document of transversal arrangement has been proposed, which includes regional and thematic specificities, based on regional objectives. He presented the arrangement proposal for the regional objective document, which should have the following:

1. Introduction – Methodology and process of document elaboration; max. one page. 2. Background and goal logic – This session should present the background (reports,

national and international conferences, existing programs, the logic, relevance to the region, urgency and strategy adequacy) of the goal and associated solutions; between two and three pages.

3. Goal Action Plan and commitments – The Goal Action Plan should outline the strategic steps and cornerstones that should be achieved with the goal, based on the SMART model. It should also present the key commitments already established by the regional goals to support the identified goal and solutions. The commitments may be assumed by politicians (governments, parliamentarians, local authorities), support funds (cooperation agencies, foundations, international credit organizations or institutions (international organizations, NGOs, etc.); between four and five pages.

4. Solutions – Summary of possible or potential solutions. This section should have an executive summary of the different types of promising solutions for the considered geographical area that were identified by the regional goals or were contributions from stakeholders, and that can help achieve the goal. Links with the digital platform of solutions should be mentioned and developed for details and future reference. As this is a Forum of Solutions, we have to give more attention to this part of the document; between five and seven pages.

5. Follow-up recommendations – This session should describe the key recommendations of the regional goals for follow-up and monitoring, after March 2012, of both goals and possible solutions; max. three to four pages.

6. Conclusion – View of the group that elaborated the regional document, especially the expectations and support required to implement the proposed actions; one page.

He emphasized that there are 11 regional objectives, which should produce a robust and consistent document that reflects the regional expression, not necessarily of geographical character, but precisely identifies some specific goals of the region and, above all, highlights which themes are being reiterated, for instance, the integrated management of water resources, which is a pending issue that should be strengthened.

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He informed that the deadline for submitting the preliminary regional documents for the different objective is September 23, 2011. These documents will be discussed and analyzed, and should be concluded by November 18, 2011, when the final report for each objective should be presented. By March 2012, a regional document will be concluded, subdivided into regional objectives, fulfilling the guidelines of the 6th Forum, which is a Forum with Solutions, informed Roberto Olivares. Local and Regional Authorities The next moment of the meeting was dedicated to discussing local and regional processes, with the purpose of: a) Knowing the experiences and progressing in terms of local and regional political

processes; b) Exchanging experiences between the champion and signatory cities of the Americas from

the Istanbul Water Consensus; c) Defining strategies to promote the champion cities’ activities, aiming at the inclusion of

water issues in the local political agenda; d) Elaborating the list of common problems and identified solutions to be presented during

the 6th World Water Forum; e) Discussing the strategy to be taken to the 6th World Water Forum. Context: Celine Dubreuil The lecturer provided the following information: The process of local and regional authorities is part of the Political Process, which, in turn, is coordinated by Mr. Philipe Lacoste and Mr. Nagy. The political process, besides the local and regional aspects, also addresses the Ministerial and Parliamentary Processes. The local and regional process has the specific objectives of incrementing the global mobilization of local authorities, the goal is to have 1,000 signatory authorities by 2012, in a more geographically balanced manner; promote the exchange of experiences and contact with experts, when seeking for concrete solutions to local challenges, supporting especially the exchange of experiences between North and South; help the IWC signatories continue with their initial commitments; develop partnerships between local authorities and develop a constructive dialog of local authorities with the ministerial and parliamentarian levels. Our intention is to establish a dialog among these three levels. From Istanbul until now, the number of adhesions has grown. Today, 786 cities are participating, and most of them are located in Latin America, more specifically in the State of São Paulo - 598 cities of this State have signed the document, which is impressive. São Paulo adapted the IWC and created the Water Pact Program. In Paraná, there are 25 other cities, whose experiences were presented in Lyon. Each signatory is committed to assessing the possible impacts of global changes on water services and selects action priorities, establishes feasible and measurable goals for the implementation and presentation of results in the 6th Forum. It doesn’t involve signing the document only. The results expected from the 6th Forum (according to Celine) are: broader visibility of this process, exceed 1,000 signatory cities, organize a fair of partnerships and experience exchange, list the solutions that were used by the cities (particularly for sanitation), have an event with the champion cities, define a clear and common message to the participants and be recognized in the ministerial statement. In May, a launch meeting was held in Lyon, when 4 actions below were defined and agreed, as follows:

a) Each country should adopt an effective and decentralized legislation for water management and allocate financial resources to such purpose;

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b) The international cooperation should be reinforced between local and regional authorities that can enable the interchange of innovative financial mechanisms, such as the Udin Santine L’eau, created in France, which allocates 1% of the companies’ budgets to a sanitation fund;

c) Search for more involvement of citizens and the community; d) Create an association of IWC signatories under which they should work together in the

implementation of established commitments. Presentation of the experiences of the Americas regarding the local/regional process: Water Pact Program - São Paulo/Brazil – Program that supported the Istanbul Water Consensus, which mobilized 598 cities in the State of São Paulo, and defined goals for 3 action lines: sanitation, water protection and actions to solve local problems. Leon – Development of actions by the City Administration of León, Mexico, to expand the water supply and sewage collection and treatment services that generated a market of reuse water and energy production market. Cultivating Good Water Program: Experience in Paraná that involved the cities near the Itaipu Power Plant in a program of citizenship construction and water protection program. Some results achieved: Readapted Roads; Recovery of Headwater Areas; Biodiversity Corridor; Community Engagement; Social inclusion through the creation of agroecological and family agriculture cooperatives; Indigenous community involvement. Relation between the Thematic Process and the Regional Process The information regarding this item are the following: I- Three contribution lines were proposed, which would support the key steps that have been planned: a) Each thematic group should identify a strategy to be closer to local and regional

authorities, regarding three axes: sensitization, technical and financial support and co-responsibility of local authorities with the involved sectors;

b) The best practices should be developed to each of the 6 regional themes; c) A mechanism to communicate and disseminate the problems and implemented solutions

should be proposed. II - Recommendations related to communication, for the official networks and the civil society networks: a) Civil society – the support of the Freshwater Action Network (FAN) is recommended; b) Local and regional authorities – the support of the Inter-American Water Resources

Network (IWRN) is recommended. III – Request: the concern was highlighted about the percentage formulation of countries that should achieve goals and a revision of that was requested, identifying guidelines broad enough, and at the same time, with better clarification of the goal of water and sanitation universalization as human rights. Visit to Sorocaba 1) Reception at the City Hall 2) Places visited:

a) Linear park of Sorocaba River (bike lane, observation deck, fishing place, etc.);

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b) Riparian forest recovery: production of seedlings in the jailhouse, qualification of former prisoners on park and garden maintenance;

c) Mega plantation: Campaign of seedling plantation; d) Linear parks – connectivity and flood control in the basin area.

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List of participants

NOME CARGO EMPRESA MUNICIPIO TELEFONE e-mail PAÍS

ABILIO GONÇAVES JÚNIOR

EXECUTIVO PÚBLICO AMBIENTAL

SMA/SP SÃO PAULO (11)3133.4052 abiliogj@ambiente.sp.gov.br BRASIL

ALBERTO J.PALOMBO SECRETÁRIO REDE INTERAM.REC.HIDR. BRASILIA (61)3032.3200 secretariat@iwrn.org BRASIL

ALEXANDRE SOUZA PESQUISADOR USP SÃO PAULO alenascimento@usp.br BRASIL

ANA MARIA PANARELLI ESPECIALISTA AMBIENTAL SMA/SP SÃO PAULO 11 3133 3983 anamariap@ambiente.sp.gov.br

ANGELO JOSÉ RODRIGUES LIMA

TÉCNICO WWF-BRASIL CAMPO GRANDE (61)8165.6803 angelo@wwf.org.br BRASIL

ANDERSON MATTOS DE SOUZA

JORNALISTA IMPRENSA OFICIAL ESTADO

SÃO PAULO (11)2799.9620 asouza@imprensaoficial.com.br BRASIL

BÁRBARA BRAKARZ ODEBRECHT BRASILIA (61)8623.4849 bbrakarz@gmail.com BRASIL

BÁRBARA C.GONÇALVES

ASSISTENTE DE PROJETO INST.VITAE CIVILIS SÃO PAULO (11)3662.0158 babi@vitaecivilis.org.br BRASIL

BRUNO PAGNOCCHESCHI

COORDENADOR ANA BRASILIA (61)2109.5442 bruno@ana.gov.br BRASIL

CARIDAD CANALES OFICIAL ASSUNTOS AMBIENTALES

CEPAL SANTIAGO (56)2210.2316 caridad.canales@cepal.org CHILE

CARLOS ALBERTO ROSITO

VICE-PRESIDENTE P/SANEAMENTO

ASFAMAS SÃO PAULO (11)3026.4380 carlos.a.rosito@gmail.com BRASIL

CARLOS ALBERTO ROSITO

CONSELHEIRO SAINT-GOBDIN RIO DE JANEIRO (21)2128.1692 carlos.a.rosito@gmail.com BRASIL

CELINE DUBREVIL PROGRAMA OFFICER CONSEIL M. DE L´EAU MARSEILLE (33)(0)491994100 c.dubrevil@worldwatercouncil.org FRANÇA

CESAR SEARA CONSULTOR ABDIB cesarseara@uol.com BRASIL

CLÁUDIA CORIA SUBDIRETORA ASSUNTOS INTERNACIONAIS

AS.NAC.EMPRESAS ÁGUA MÉXICO (52)5555.436600 claudia.coria@aneas.com.mx MÉXICO

CHRISTINE LOMBARDO ENGENHEIRA MEIO AMBIENTE

PETROBRAS RIO DE JANEIRO (21)3229.1502 christinelcp@petrobras.com.br BRASIL

CRISTINA RESANO RODRIGUES

ESPECIALISTA AMBIENTSAL INSTITUTO DE BOTÂNICA SÃO PAULO (11)5067.6012 crisresano@hotmail.com BRASIL

EDISON CARLOS PRESIDENTE EXECUTIVO INSTITUTO TRATA BRASIL SÃO PAULO (11)3021.3143 edison.carlos@tratabrasil.org.br BRASIL

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PREFEITO CONSELHO M. LINDEIROS ITAIPU (45)3257.1268 zimmermannctb@hotmail.com BRASIL

EMERSON FERRAZ FOTÓGRAFO PREFEITURA SOROCABA SOROCABA (15)3238.2490 emoliveira@sorocaba.sp.gov.br BRASIL

ERASMO DE ALFONSO DIRECTOR AMERICA AQUAFED PARIS (33)156605005 erasmo.dealfonso@aquafed.org BRASIL

ESTRELLITA FUENTS NANA

COERENTE PLANIFICAÇÃO HIDRICA

COMISION NAC. DEL AGUA MÉXICO (52)5551744000 estrellita.fuentes@conagua.gob.mx MÉXICO

FABIOLA MARIA G. RIBEIRO

GESTORA DE DESENV. AMBIENTAL

PREFEITURA SOROCABA SOROCABA (15)3233.7455 fabribeiro@sorocaba.sp.gov.br BRASIL

FERNANDO VEIGA RESPONSÁVEL SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS

TNC CURITIBA (41)2111.8765 fveiga@tnc.org BRASIL

FRANCISCO A. AGUADO DIRETOR DESENVOLVIMENTO

AGBAR SÃO PAULO (11)2344.3322 faguado@agbar.es BRASIL

FRANCISCO CASTRO LAHOZ

COORDENADOR DE PROJETOS

CONSÓRIO PCJ PIRACICABA (19)3422.5457 francisco@agua.org.br BRASIL

FRANCISCO LOBATO DA COSTA

CONSULTOR AUTÕNOMO ANA PORTO SEGURO (73)3267.1320 fjlobato@uol.com.br BRASIL

GENIVALDO CARVALHO FOTÓGRAFO IMPRENSA OFICIAL SÃO PAULO (11)2779.9788 genivaldo@imprensaoficial.com.br BRASIL

GERTJAN B. BEEKMAN COORDENADOR DE PROGRAMAS IICA BRASILIA (61)2106.5411 gertjan.beekaman@iica.int BRASIL

GIANCARLO GERLI DIRETOR DE PLANEJAMENTO ABDIB SÃO PAULO (11)3094.1950 planejamento@abdib.org.br BRASIL

GUILHERME A. HUNGRIA JORNALISTA SSRH SÃO PAULO (11)3218.5500 guilherme.hungria@ssrh.sp.gov.b r BRASIL

GIOVANI JORGE CHECELIM DIRETOR CICLO DAS ÁGUAS SÃO PAULO (11)9438.1559 totgio1@gmail.com BRASIL

GUSTAVO PENEDO CABRAL ENGENHEIRO INEMA SALVADOR (11)3117.1633 gustavo.cabral@inema.ba.gov.br BRASIL

IVI PIOTTO JORNALISTA SMA/SP SÃO PAULO (11)3133.3376 ivi@ambiente.sp.gov.br BRASIL

ISABEL CAMPOS CAVALIERI REPÓRTER ESTADÃO SÃO PAULO (11)2108.6711 ic77@uol.com.br BRASIL

JOSÉ AURÉLIO BORANGA ASESSOR DA PRESIDÊNCIA SABESP SÃO PAULO (11)3388.9575 jboranga@sabesp.com.br BRASIL

JULIO THADEU S. KETTELHUT

DIRETOR RECURSOS HÍDRICOS MMA BRASILIA (61)2028.20040 julio.hettelhut@mma.gov.br BRASIL

JUSSARA DE LIOMA CARVALHO

SECRETÁRIA DO MEIO AMBIENTE PREFEITURA SOROCABA SOROCABA (15)9773.2555 jcarvalho@sorocaba.gov.br BRASIL

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LUIZ CARLOS M. MESTRINHO

ASSESSOR DE REL. INTERNACIONAIS PREFEITURA MANAUS MANAUS (92)3236.6684 luiz.raposo@gmm.am.gov.br BRASIL

LUIZ EDUARDO GARCIA DIRETOR MINISTÉRIO TRANSPORTES SÃO PAULO (61)2029.7687 luiz.garcia@transportes.gov.br BRASIL

LUIZ GABRIEL AZEVEDO DIRETOR ODEBRECH ENERGIA DISTRITO FEDERAL (61)3316.2555 gazevedo@odebrecht.com BRASIL

LUPERCIO ZIROLDO ANTONIO VICE-PRESIDENTE REBOB BIRIGUI (11)9637.9956 comitesdobrasil@ig.com.br BRASIL

MARA IRITANI PESQUISADORA CIENTIFICA IG SÃO PAULO (11)5073.5511 mara.iritani@igeológico.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MARIA CRISTINA RIBEIRO

DIRETORA DESENV. SUSTENTÁVEL GDFSUEZ BELO HORIZONTE (031)3249.7600 cristina.ribeiro@leme.com.br BRASIL

MARTHA MARTORELLI ANALISTA DE INFRAESTRUTURA MINISTÉRIO DAS CIDADES BRASILIA (61)2108.1147 martha.maiolino@cidades.gov.br BRASIL

MARIA DE LOURDES P.SIMÕES SOCIOLÓGA SECRET.SANEAM.REC.HID. SÃO PAULO (11)3218.5500 mlourdes@ssrh.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MARIANA A. DE CAMPOS OFICIAL DE COMUNICAÇÃO PREF.MUNIC.SOROCABA SOROCABA (15)3238.2496 macampos@sorocaba.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MARIE VIE LAINE CHABREL

GERENTE EXECUTIVA- ASSES.INSTITUC. ANA BRASILIA (61)2109.5169 marie.chabrel@ana.gov.br BRASIL

MARINA BALESTERO SANTOS ESPECIALISTA AMBIENTAL SMA/CPLA SÃO PAULO (11)3133.3591 marinab@ambiente.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MARTA EMERICH GERENTE - APOIO TÉCNICO CETESB SÃO PAULO (11)3133.3494 martae@ambiente.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MARTA MILITÃO DA SILVA EXECUTIVA PÚBLICA SMA SÃO PAULO (11)3133.4109 martas@ambiente.sp.gov.br BRASIL

MAUREEN BALLESTERO COORDENADORA TARGETS WFA SAN JOSÉ (506)88147010 tempis@racsa.co.cr COSTA RICA

MAURICIO PARDON ASSESSOR SANEAMENTO CAF CARACAS (58)2122092988 mpardon@caf.com VENEZUELA

MERCEDES G.VILLALBA PARLAMENTARIA DEL MERCOSUR PARLASUR ASSUNCION (00595981300130 mergonz.py@gmail.com PARAGUAY

MÕNICA CAMORENA CAREIA CHEFE DE PROJETO COMISION NAC. DEL AGUA MÉXICO (52)51515744000 monica.camorena@conagua.gab.mx MÉXICO

NELTON MIGUEL FRIEDERICH

DIRETOR COORDENAÇÃO E AMBIENTE ITAIPU BINACIONAL FOZ IGUAÇU (41)9996.4019 neltonmf@yahoo.com.br BRASIL

NEWTON DE LIMA AZEVEDO VICE-PRESIDEN TE ABDIB SÃO PAULO (11)3094.1950 abdib@abdib.org.br BRASIL

NINON MACHADO DIRETOR EXECUTIVO INSTITUTO IPANEMA/FANAS RIO DE JANEIRO (21)2527.8747 ninon@institutoipanema.net BRASIL

ODOCIR FIORENTIN FUNCIONÁRIO PÚBLICO ITAIPU BINACIONAL FOZ IGUAÇU (75)9975.1396 fiorenti@itaipu.gov.br BRASIL

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OLGA SAMPER CONSULTOR IADB LN HABITAT BOGOTÁ (57)12535814 osr40bog@gmail.com COLOMBIA

ORLANDO G. QUEIRÓS MEMBRO EFETIVO CONSELHO FISCAL ABIMAQ SÃO PAULO (11)5582.6373 orlando@capitalsl.com.br BRASIL

PAULO LOPES VARELLA NETO DIRETOR ANA BRASILIA (61)2109.5159 paulo.varella@ana.gov.br BRASIL

PEDRO EYMARD C.MESQUITA

COORDENADOR PESCA E AGRICULTURA DNOCS FORTALEZA (85)3288.5261 pedro.mesquita@uol.com.br BRASIL

PRIMO PEREIRA NETO CONSULTOR SINDESAN/ABIMAQ SÃO PAULO (11)3083.4296 primopn@uol.com.br BRASIL

REJANE BEATRIZ A. E SILVA ENGENHEIRA CICIL SEMA/RS PORTO ALEGRE (51)3288.8144 rejane.lima@sema.rs.gov.br BRASIL

RICARDO M. DE ANDRADE SUPERINTENDENTE ANA BRASILIA (61)2109.5220 ricardo.andrade@ana.gov.br BRASIL

ROBERTO OLIVARES DIRETOR GENERAL ANEAS DO MÉXICO MÉXICO (52)5555436502 roberto.olivares@aneas.com.mx BRASIL

VALDIR FOLGOSI PRESIDENTE ABIMAQ/SINDESAN SÃO PAULO (11)3556.1104 valdir_folgosi@centroprojekt.com.br BRASIL

VALERIA DAMICO ASSESSORA SECRET.SAN.REC.HÍDRICOS SSRH SÃO PAULO (11)3218.5600 vdamico@sp.gov.br BRASIL

VICTOR ARROIO SENIOR ADVISOR WATER UM HABITAT RIO DE JANEIRO (21)3235.8550 arroyo@onohabitat.org BRASIL

VLAMIR AUGUSTO SCHIAVUZZO

PRESIDENTE SEMAE PIRACICABA (19)3403.9602 v.schiavuzzo@semaepiracicaba.org.br BRASIL

WAGNER CABELHO ESPECIALISTA AMBIENTAL SSRH SÃO PAULO (11)3218.5528 wcabelho@uol.com.br BRASIL

WALTER TESCH COORDENADOR RECURSOS HÍDRICOS SSRH SÃO PAULO (11)3218.5979 wtesch@sp.gov.br BRASIL

YASMIN TREJOS DIRETORA REVISTA AQUA VITAE AMANCO BRASIL SÃO PAULO (11)2126.2670 ytrejos@mexichem.com

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