The Spanish companies in the sector were generously represented

The spectacular results of this latest round of Smagua, with growth of 17 percent in participation and a very high commercial response, have returned to exceed all expectations, at the time that reaffirm once again the ascending line who has followed the Hall since its inception.

Smagua closed its sixteenth edition with great success the past February 20 in Zaragoza, after four days of intense commercial dynamism, generated no doubt by the high level of participation of the industry sector of the water, both in number of exhibiting firmsthey exceeded the 1,300, as in influx of visitors, which hovered the 25,000.

The framework directive on water, together with the demand-side management and the efficient use of the resource were some of the protagonists of the 6th National Congress of the water and the environment, which took place in the framework of the living room, along with other technical and professional conferences of high interest to the sector.

Regarded as one of the most important trade events for the industry of the water and main European encounter with the most leading technology in this area, Smagua closed its Edition in 2004 with a high degree of satisfaction among its participants. The excellent reception and the interest that sparked numerous innovations presented in this call, as well as the proper functioning of it as a platform for business, with the assistance of trade missions from 24 countries, together with the business meeting through the programme Al - investThey sparked an intense activity and a climate of optimism widespread among the attending professionals.

The massive attendance of exhibitors, which were more than 1,300, reflects the vitality of a sector in full expansion, in which innovation is the added value capable of putting the technology industry of the water in the highest positions in the market. Not in vain, several forums emphasized fair its high-tech, which consolidates its position, in the opinion of experts, in the first places among the European events in its category.

With a wide coverage of specialized, both national and foreign media (French, Polish, Portuguese, Swiss...) Smagua is developed in an environment of continuous movement; the facilities of Feria de Zaragoza passed 30,000 visits, which could go the 54.915 square meters dedicated to exhibition, surface it higher by 24 per cent to the busy in his previous edition. Also increased the number of exhibiting firms at 17 percent, from 34 countries on virtually all continents.

The Spanish companies in the sector were generously represented, with 597 exhibition stands. For its part, and between EU countries, whose total surpassed the 400 companies, they were Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and France which had the largest participation in the contest; It was closely followed by the presence of United States companies with 125 companies. Between countries outside the European Union who were present, he stressed Switzerland, with 25 stands, although they also exposed companies Czech, Turkish and Polish. Also attended the call for a total of 53 Asian, especially Japanese and Israeli firms, as well as up eight Australian companies, not to mention the significant presence of India or Pakistan.

The water industry is one of the most globalized by the nature of the resource itself that handles, essential in all parts of the world, together with the high specialization of Smagua causing increasingly adding more Nations this biennial meetingas evidenced when observing the trend of participation in recent years, which has gone from 26 countries of the convening in 2000 to 34 of the present.

A dynamic sector as it is the industry of the water, in constant innovation and with prospects rather than rosy, has returned to massively support the holding of this prestigious competition, one of the most important in Europe in their specialty and who has much to say and it will no doubt continue to much to talk about in their future editions.

The same intense trade fair activity extended also to the parallel activities, with the conclusion of 6th National Congress of the water and the environment, where the water and its management were discussed from different points of view, from the purely technical and technological to the policy. In this regard, there was discussion on the water framework directive and on the right to water.

Also, during the Congress, there it was much sustainability, of the implementation of the twenty-first Local Agenda, policy management and -saving technologies in the communities of irrigators. "Technologies and instruments for the control and management of water resources" was another issue that gathered interesting papers, as they addressed the automatic hydrological information system, the quality of data and new trends in instrumentation, or the systems of disinfection in water circuits, such as towers of cooling and domestic hot water, among other things of interest.

Congress served, also, to present in detail between the companies and professionals of the sector the candidacy of Zaragoza to organize the Expo 2008, which would by theme "Water and sustainable development", which, on the other hand, it fits perfectly with the spirit of the own pageant and means a bet of this city to reach the leading role that it deserves in this field, which accumulates a lot of experience.

Programme acts of Smagua not missed nor the lectures by professionals and entrepreneurs from the sector. The Conference included: "The integral water cycle", or the presentation of software for design and analysis of water networks, of the multidisciplinary group of modelling of fluid from the Polytechnic University of Valencia

Finally, and inside also complementary activities developed within the framework of Smagua 2004, took place a few days, with their corresponding round tables, at which over seven presentations focused on: "The purification of waste water in small urban and assimilable cores" and presented the latest technological developments aimed at solving specific problems of cleansing based on small prefabricated facilities intended for environments such as ski resorts, rural villages, residential areas, stations of service, etc.