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The workshop is in keeping with FCC
Aqualia’s collaboration with APIA to
disseminate information and to build
awareness among the community in
general and journalists in particular on
the activity conducted by the com-
pany: end-to-end management of the
water cycle; domestic, industrial, and
agricultural.
Collaboration
water plant at La Aldehuela, facilities owned
by the local government and managed by
FCC Aqualia, where they were welcomed
by the respective managers of these plants,
Teodoro García and Juan Ignacio Jiménez.
Reporting on the environment
Burgos also hosted an Environment Infor-
mation Workshop for local journalists, orga-
nized by APIA and by the Press Association
of Burgos. On this occasion, Aqualia, the
sponsor of the workshop, was accompa-
nied by Aguas de Burgos, the company
that provides this service locally, in order to
ensure the success of the event.
Santiago Lafuente, manager of Zone I, was
present at the inauguration session to-
gether with Mar González, chairwoman of
the Press Association of Burgos; Juan An-
tonio de Miguel, manager of Aguas de Bur-
gos; and Clara Navío, chairwoman of APIA.
In his presentation, Lafuente highlighted
“the increasing importance of information
on water management in the mass media”,
regardless, he said, of “whether the com-
pany is public or private”. He coincided in
this aspect with the representative of Aguas
de Burgos, who underscored “the munici-
pal company’s long history of public-private
collaboration”.
FCC Aqualia was represented by Alber-
to García, head of Communications, who
gave a speech entitled “The Thrilling Cha-
llenge of Reporting on Water”. During his
presentation, García described some of the
difficulties that local media could encounter
when reporting on the water service and
some of the good practices that could be
useful for reporting in a rigorous manner.
After the sessions of the first day of the
seminar, the group visit the potable water
treatment plant in Arlanzón, 25 km from
Burgos, which provides water supply to the
city. During their visit, the guests were es-
corted by technicians of the local company
and by the manager of Aguas de Burgos.
Some of the journalists touring the FCC Aqualia facilities.
Fernando Martínez Vallvey, dean of the Communication Faculty, gave the opening speech; Elena
Martín, chairwoman of the Press Association of Salamanca (ASPE); Clara Navío, chairman of APIA;
and Angel Capellán, manager of FCC Aqualia’s office in Salamanca.
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