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Aqualia participates in the Global Water Summit in Berlin

The International Global Water Intelligence organization (GWI) held the new edition of its annual conferences in Berlin under the theme “Focusing on Performance”.

The summit consists of several seminars and round table discussions on business opportunities under different themes. Aqualia was in charge of a roundtable on R+D for the treatment of waste water presi-ded by Frank Rogalla, director of Innovation and Technology.

One of the most relevant events at this summit was the award ceremony when the winners of the Global Water Award received their prizes. The former secretary general of the United Nations, Kof Annan was the master of this ceremony.

During the gala event, Aqualia handed out the Water Reuse Project and Public Water Agency prizes. Loay Al-Mussalam, gene-

Luis de Lope, Concession Manager, when the prize was handed to Loay AL-Mussalam, managing director of the Saudi company NWC.

Frank Rogalla, director of Innovation and Technology, during his presen-tation.

Juan Luis Castillo, director of the Eastern Zone, talks with Kof Annan during the award ceremony when the prizes were given to ATLL executives.

While the technical seminars were being conducted, the Global Water Intelligence publication handed out the prizes for this year’s

edition in which Kof Annan was the guest

of honor.

ral manager of National Water Company (NWC) was the winner of the frst award and received the prize from Luis de Lope, the director of Aqualia concession, for a project involving the treatment and reuse of water

in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The second pri-ze was won by the largest tertiary system in the southern hemisphere, developed by Foz do Brazil in Sao Paulo.

The Public Water Agency award and the frst prize were awarded to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority and the second prize was won by Aiges del Ter Llobregat (ATLL) which was handed out to the manager and technical director of this public company by Juan Luis Castillo, the director of Aqualia’s East Zone department.

Link: to see the award winners go to www. globalwaterawards.com.