Although maintained that water is a strategic resource that requires a sustainable management

The President of the National Association of chemists of Spain (Although), Carlos Negro, has stated that "the water has become today a vital and strategic resource that requires a sustainable management due to the rapid growth of cities, increasingly more consumers of water""energy and food". It thus highlighted as conclusion of the VII International Congress of although, who he met in Oviedo 480 professionals from 22 countries to discuss the integral water cycle. He added that "the chemistry and chemical engineering are in the generation of knowledge an essential ingredient for sustainable management of water".

For his part, Professor Peter Wilderer explained that as future research topics is the management of emerging contaminants and the tandem of agua-energía and has been added to address water-related issues, always complexa comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach is necessary. The President of the European Water Partnership, Tom Vereijken, has reviewed the internationalization more and more of the issues related to water and has stressed that it should not be alien to the obligations to mark the new directive EU frameworkIt is already making significant changes in the management of the water.

In Europe there are 70,000 operators in the water sector, which employ 600,000 workers and invoice 72,000 million euros per year, informs the although, who adds that their infrastructure investments totalled 33,000 million a year for more than 3.5 million miles of pipelines for distribution networks2,500,000 in sanitation and more than 70,000 sewage wastewater.