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From Spain at Expo Zaragoza 2008 Andres Granier Summons to turn the water on the best ally of humanity

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¨ He called on governments around the world to make commitments to make laws for the conservation and sustainable resource management

Zaragoza, Spain. With a call to governments around the world to take decisive action and make laws or treaties for the conservation and sustainable management of water, while making it an ally of global development, Governor Andres Granier Melo presented Hence the proposal for the Protocol Tabasco International Water or Letter of Zaragoza.

By participating in the Water Tribune, organized as part of Expo Zaragoza 2008, which since last June 14 is celebrated in this Spanish city, Andrés Granier stressed the need to declare this resource heritage of mankind, and pronounced because nation-states retain ownership and sovereignty of the vital liquid to be source development and quality of life for residents.

From this international forum, Granier Melo raised the voice of southern Mexico and made ​​clear the responsibility of Tabasco as water power, through caring for and conserving water through an integrated management that represents, above all, security and quality of life for people, and made ​​available to the state experience to help make this liquid takes hold as a source of life for our future generations and the planet.

Hence, Tabasco move towards sustainable water management with three objectives: to reduce risks to safety of people and assets, begin a development that respects the environment and natural resources, and make this element the best strategic partner for meet the challenges of the world to its scarcity, he said.

On the platform, attended by Secretary of State for Water and Environment Spanish, Joseph Puxeu, and the president of the Expo Zaragoza, Roque Gistau Gistau, the president presented a positioning Tabasco divided into four sections entitled The Causes of Catastrophe in Tabasco, the Emergency Governance, The Governance Reconstruction and Water Power Tabasco.

Granier Melo said that due to hydrological and geographical features has its state, deforestation of the forests, the siltation of rivers such as the Samaria, Carrizal and Grijalva, as well as extraordinary rainfall of about one thousand millimeters to have precipitated from three days in late October and early November 2007, over two thirds of the state territory were virtually flooded.

In his speech, said that despite the disaster in Tabasco gave an example of governance, credibility and full communication between authorities, Tabasco, Mexican society and international community, since from the first moment when the news of the tragedy gave the Around the world, beat out the status of citizen solidarity, nations, companies and organizations like the Red Cross and UNESCO.

He concluded that the water potential which has a strategic dimension Tabasco charges, and allows the Southeastern part of Mexico Mesoamerican Corridor Bioenergetic and be recognized among the five regions in the world for its mega.

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