The CSIC and Aqualogy collaborate in the celebration of the International Year of the Cooperation in the Sphere of the Water 2013

The president of the Upper Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC), Emilio Lora- Tamayo, and the president of the company Aqualogy, Ángel Simón, chaired yesterday Tuesday, 29 January, the opening of the International Year of the Cooperation in the Sphere of the Water 2013. Both institutions have signed an agreement to develop jointly a program of activities under the lemma “Are water. Science and knowledge for a universal access”.

The opening act, celebrated in the central headquarters of the CSIC in Madrid, has had the assistance of the general secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Román Arjona. Likewise, it has taken part the researcher of the CSIC Elías Fereres, expert in engineering of the water, agriculture and environingingment, that has pronounced the conference The big are of a world cambiante.

The scientist of the CSIC has referred to a future of shortage characterised by an increasing population, that will demand a greater consumption of water and the production of a lot of more foods. “The difficulties to increase said supply, the uncertainties that poses the climatic change and the need to preserve the quality of the water to protect the natural ecosystems pose problems that are not at all easy to resolve. The investigation and the technological development offer some of the best arms between which have to confront us to these challenges”, has signalled Fereres.

“The cooperation between sectors and users results essential to reach a gestión of the sustainable water and of universal access. In this sense, the CSIC and Aqualogy add to this initiative to contribute, from the investigation and the knowledge, and his communication, to these aims”, has signalled Lora-Tamayo.

In December of 2010, the General Assembly of the UN approved by consensus declare 2013 International Year of the Cooperation in the Sphere of the Water 2013. The resolution underlines the importance of the water for the sustainable development, the preservation of the environingingment, the eradication of the poverty and the hunger, as well as his contribution to the health and the human welfare.

The official ceremony has included also the inauguration of the exhibition The sphere of the Water, itinerant and available in Internet and one of the activities crashes of the program. The sample, that will be able to visit until 1 February in Madrid, is curated by Antoni Ginebreda, researcher of the CSIC in the Institute of Environingingmental Diagnostic and Studies of the Water.

The world of the water, from his chemical properties until his paper in the history and the human civilisation, are some of the subjects reflected in the exhibition, composed by 20 panels and divided in two big blocks. The first, Water and Nature, follows the course of the hydrological cycle, his relation with the climate and the ecosystems. In the second block, Water and Society, the exhibition adentra in the influence of the human being in the natural cycle of the water, his pollution, as well as in the solutions for the access to the drinkable water, without forgetting the relation of the water with the history, the health and the technology.

This and other activities can consult in the official web of the International Year of the Cooperation in the Sphere of the Water 2013 (http://www.agua2013.es), that includes a diary and stood out, in addition to links to download material of scientific divulging elaborated by researchers of the CSIC and of other institutions. Also it allows the visualisation and direct download of the exhibition The sphere of the water and of his didactic units.

The CSIC participates from does more than a decade in the distinct scientific commemorations that allow to put in relief a concrete subject. From 2009 it has incorporated to his actions a specific program of commemorations that has allowed him do arrive material of scientific rigour and informative quality to an increasingly wide public, heterogeneous and disperse geographically.