AEOPAS | Workshop on the Drinking Water Directive national transposition, Online, 24 February
On 24 February 2021, AEOPAS, the Spanish Association of Public Water Operators in partnership with the Spanish Ministers of Health and of Environment, organised a high-level workshop to discuss the implementation of the Drinking Water Directive in Spain.
The event will be opened by State Secretaries to the Spanish Ministers for Health and for Environment, Aqua Publica Europea and AEOPAS. It will be followed then by specific roundtables dedicated to some aspects of the Drinking Water Directive such as water quality parameters, risk and health plans, human rights, and information requirements and relations with citizens. These specific subjects will be introduced by well-known experts in the national and international sphere, such as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.
The workshop will be closed by Jaime Morell, General of Secretary of AEOPAS.
Programme
Introduction
José Miguel del Arco García. AGUASRESIDUALES.INFO (news portal specialised on Environmental issues), Director
Opening
- Silvia Calzón.State Secretary to the Spanish Ministry of Health, Equality and Social Policy, with responsibility for Health
- Hugo Morán. State Secretary to the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, with responsibility for Environment
- Milo Fiasconaro. Executive Director, Aqua Publica Europea.
- Carlos Daniel Casares Díaz. General Director of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
- Luis Babiano. President, Spanish Association of Public Water Operators (AEOPAS)
I. Quality parameters and monitoring list
Roundtable: Technical and institutional challenges.
Margarita Palau Miguel. Head of the Water Health Quality Area of the Subdirectorate General for Environmental Health and Occupational Health of the Directorate-General for Public Health.
II. Risk-based approach and health programmes
Roundtable: Technical and institutional challenges and examples of implementation.
Teodoro Estrela Monreal. Director-General for Water, Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
II.Human rights
Roundtable: Social challenges; rights and transparency criteria.
Pedro Arrojo. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
IV. Information requirements and relations with citizens
Roundtable: Social challenges; rights and transparency criteria.
Leandro del Moral. professor of Geography at the University of Seville.
Conclusions
Jaime Morell, Secretary-General of AEOPAS.
