Yes, duty calls - I'm off to San José, Costa Rica, for a meeting. I know it sounds like a junket - going to Costa Rica in late November but I will be spending most of my three days there in the Radisson's meeting rooms.
The meeting is the Americas Follow-up Meeting of the Fifth World Water Forum. I will be representing the American Water Resources Association along with Executive Vice President Ken Reid.
The meeting has three objectives:
1) strenghten the mobilization process initiated on the occasion of the Fifth World Water Forum and work towards the Sixth World Water Forum (March 2012 in Marseille, France);
2) continue to build momentum and promote the water agenda at the policy level; and
3) support regional initiatives that promote the global water policy recommendations.
The meeting conveners are Roberto Olivares (Mexico), Maureen Ballesteros Vargas (Costa Rica), and Bendito (Ben) Braga of Brazil.
The meeting will also launch the Water Forum of the Americas, designed to get the region on track for the Sixth World Water Forum.
I am also looking forward to seeing our three SUSIE participants from Costa Rica: Marilyn Manrow Villalobos, Gloriana Araya, and Esteban Lobo Perez.
"En boca cerrada no entra mosca." -- Latin American proverb [English: A closed mouth gathers no flies.]
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