The aim of the living room is the integrated and sustainable management of the resource hídrico.

Of the 11 to 14 March zaragoza will receive the XVIII edition of Smagua, the International Living room of the Water and, beside her, the VIII edition of the Living room of the Environingingment. This new announcement produces in a moment of strength and strong impulse for the technologies of the water, increasingly present and necessary in the hydraulics politics of all the countries. The contest coincides likewise with the preparativos of the International Fair Expo Saragossa 2008 'Water and Sustainable Development', event that shares objective with the own living room: the integrated and sustainable management of the resource hídrico.

The leading companies in the sector of water and the environment have an unmissable in Smagua 2008, the fair for the industry of water and essential tool that should be present in the strategy of marketing of the companies in the sector. A business meeting in its last edition of 2006 received close to 29,000 trade visitors and brought brought exhibitors from 38 countries.

The high technological level of the contributions and innovations presented in each edition of the competition reveals the good health of a sector which in recent years has not done more to grow and which is still a great potential for development. Given its vital importance and their limited availability, the management of the water has become capital element of public management, as well as the search for sustainability and environmental preservation, which is a boost for the development of new formulasproposals and technologies for the optimization of the management of the liquid element.

Given that there is a high demand for technology for the management of the water, it is hoped that in the next call of Smagua see innovative light solutions, environmentally sustainable and economically viable, both in prospecting and water catchment, the conduction and transport sectors and mainly in equipment for treatmentpurification and recycling of water, one of the sectors of greatest development.

To facilitate the planned visit of the professional, the space available for the banquet halls of exhibition of Zaragoza is structured in different areas of exposure. Thus, the pageant has sectorizado in five broad areas: recruitment, transport and storage of water; treatment and reuse of water; applications of the water/irrigation; other equipment; and engineering, consulting, business services, technical publications, etc.

In the lounge of the environment, is sorted according to the following scheme: energy environment; the water environment; atmospheric environment; treatment of waste; environmental engineering; and other environmental activities.

Smagua 2006 culminated surpassing all expectations, causing the overall satisfaction of exhibitors and organizers for this new edition which is already preparing is expected continue surpassing growth of business participation, assistance of professionals and business meetings and business. In the current situation of the market, with new investments in the field

water and with the high level of technology and management that have reached firms that set out in the contest, it is possible to predict a great success and excellent business prospects for the next edition of Smagua and lounge of the environment.

The last edition of Smagua gathered almost 30,000 visitors.