Programme of Activities


TIME

PARTICIPANT

POSITION

WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER

INAUGURATION OF THE 24th ANEAS ANNUAL CONVENTION

KEYNOTE SPEECHES AND DEBATE ROUNDTABLE

14:15
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15:00

KEYNOTE SPEECH: WATER IN THE STATE OF MEXICO

   

Enrique Peña Nieto

Governor of the State of Mexico

   

No commentators

 

15:00
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15:30

Inauguration and Expo tour with Guests of Inauguration Ceremony

15:30
-
16:15

Meal

16:15
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17:30

NATIONAL KEYNOTE:
TOWARDS MARSELLA 2012 - MEXICAN MAYORS AND THE ISTAMBUL DECLARATION

Dr. David Korenfeld Federman

President of the National Association of Water
and Sanitation Utilities of Mexico (ANEAS)
and Secretary of Water and Public Works
of the State of Mexico Government

17:30
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18:15

WELCOME COCKTAIL

THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER

10:00
-
11:30

ROUNDTABLE 1: FLOOD MONITORING AND PREVENTION

1. Dr. Martín Jiménez Espinosa

Hydrometeorological Risks Deputy Director,
Research Department (CENAPRED)

2. Dr. Ángel Luis Aldana Valverde

Programme Coordinator: "Iberoamerican Network
for monitoring and forecasting of hydrometeorological
phenomena", CEDEX Madrid, Spain

3. Cliscería Rodríguez Alvarado 

General Director Water and Sanitation
State Commission of Tabasco

4. José Elías Chedid Abraham

Deputy Secretary of Water and Public Works
of the State of Mexico Government

Moderator:

 

11:30
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12:15

Expo tour

12:15
-
13:15

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE: WATER SECURITY

Claudia Sadoff

World Bank (WB)

   

Commentators:

 

Dr. David Garman

International Water Association (IWA)

Dr. Adalberto Noyola Robles

Director of the Engineering Institute of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (II-UNAM)

Dr. David Korenfeld Federman

President of the National Association of Water
and Sanitation Utilities of Mexico (ANEAS)

13:15
-
14:15

KEYNOTE:
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR THE WATER, SEWERAGE AND SANITATION
SERVICES IN MEXICO CITY

   

Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón

Head of the Federal District Government (GDF)

   

No commentators

 

14:15
-
14:45

Expo tour

14:45
-
16:15

ROUNDTABLE 2: WATER MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY SECURITY IN THE LONG TERM -
PROBLEMS AND IMPACT FOR URBAN SUPPLY

1. José María Turá Torres

General Director of Water of Saltillo (AGSAL)

2. Dr. Carlos Díaz Delgado

Coordinator of the Water Resources Inter-American
Centre, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
(UAEM)

3. Francisco Muñiz Pereyra

General Director of INTERAPAS, S.L.P.

4. Dr. Gonzálo Hernández Licona

Executive Secretary of The National Council for the
Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL)

   

Moderator:

 

16:15
-
17:30

Presentation of the book: Water Images • ANEAS

FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER

10:00
-
11:30

ROUNDTABLE 3: CLIMATE CHANGE

1. Dr. Víctor Orlando Magaña Rueda

Head Researcher at the Centre for Atmospheric
Sciences of the Autonomous University of Mexico
(GMT-UNAM)

2. Dr. Polioptro Martínez Austria

General Director of the Mexican Institute
of Water Technology (IMTA)

3. Dr. Ma. Del Carmen Carmona

Institute for Legal Research at the National
Autonomous University of Mexico

4. Julia Martínez Fernández

Coordinator of the Climate Change Programme
of the National Institute for Ecology (INE)

   

Moderator:

 

11:30
-
12:15

Expo tour

12:15
-
13:15

KEYNOTE: POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON FLOOD CONTROL

Dr. Felipe Arreguín Cortés

Technical Deputy Director of the National Water
Commission (CONAGUA)

   

Commentators:

 

Andrés Garnier Melo

Governor of the State of Tabasco

Ramón Aguirre Díaz

General Director of the Water System of Mexico City
(SACM)

Sabás Campos Almodóvar

General Director of the State Water Commission
of Tamaulipas (CEAT)

13:15
-
14:15

KEYNOTE: WATERSHED CONSERVATION
AS SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR WATER SECURITY

José Eduardo Mestre Rodríguez

International Consultant

   

Commentators:

 

Dr. Jesús Reyes Heroles González-Garza

Gonzalo Rio Arronte Foundation

Rocío Córdoba Muñoz

Coordinator of the Water Management Unit,
UICN Mesoamerica

César Coll Carabias

General Director of the State Water Commission
of Jalisco

14:15
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14:45

Expo tour

14:45
-
16:15

ROUNDTABLE 4: UTILITIES FACED WITH EXTREME EVENTS: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

1. Gerald E. Galloway

Professor of Engineering. Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland

2. Emiliano Rodríguez Briceño

General Director of Drinking Water and Sewerage
System of Leon, Gto. (SAPAL)

3. Emilio Rangel Woodyard

General Director of Water and Sewerage System
of Monterrey, N.L. (SADM)

4. Dr. Michelle Maddaus

Climate Change Committee Chair, AWWA

   

Moderator:

 

16:15
-
17:30

Cocktail sponsored by exhibitors for the Heads of Utilities members of ANEAS

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER

10:00
-
11:00

KEYNOTE: COMMUNICATION IN WATER CRISIS

Javier Solórzano Zinser

Journalist of Radio Trece News

   

Commentators:

 

Hernando Durán Cabrera

General Director of the State Commission
of Public Services of Tijuana (CESPT)

Elizabeth Cerda Andrade

Water Culture and Social Communication Manager
(SADM) Monterrey, N.L.

María Teresa Gutiérrez Mercadillo

Director of the Environmental Education
and Communication Fund

11:00
-
11:15

Recess

11:15
-
12:45

ROUNDTABLE 5: INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING FOR WATER PURIFICATION AND SANITATION -
PROBLEMS AND PROPOSALS

1. Eugenio Amador Quijano

Water, Energy and Environment Deputy Director
of the Investment Bank, BANOBRAS

2. Alejandro Aboumrad González

General Director - Driving Development
and Employment in Latin America, CARSO Group

3. Juan Luis Calderón

General Director of the Drinking Water and Sanitation
Utility of Morelia, Mich.

4. Dr. Carlos Humberto Ben

Water and Sanitation of Argentina (AySA)

Moderator:

 

12:45
-
13:00

Recess

13:00
-
13:30

CONCLUSIONS ON THE 24th ANEAS ANNUAL CONVENTION

1. Dr. David Korenfeld Federman

President of ANEAS and Secretary of Water and Public
Works of the State of Mexico Government

2. Ramón Aguirre Díaz

General Director of the Water System of Mexico City
(SACM)

CLOSING CEREMONY

** Programme subject to change **