Water
18 Jun 2012, 15:30:00-18:00:00
Recommendations
- Secure water supply by protecting biodiversity, ecosystems and water sources.
- Implement the right to water.
- Adopt more ambitious global policies asserting the importance of integrated water, sanitation, energy and land use planning, development, conservation and management at all scales, taking into account specific gender and cultural needs and with the full and effective participation of civil society.
| Panelists | |
 Lucia Newman (UK), Al Jazeerah
Moderator |  Mr. Albert Butare (Rwanda)
CEO, Africa Energy Services Group |
 Ms. Ania Grobicki (Sweden)
Executive-Secretary, Global Water Partnership (GWP) |  Dr. Benedito Braga (Brazil)
President, International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Vice-President, World Water Council (WWC) |
 Mr. Dyborn Chibonga (Malawi)
CEO, National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) |  Mr. Jeff Seabright (United States of America)
Vice-President, Environment and Water Resources Coca-Cola Co. |
 Dr. Loic Fauchon (France)
President, World Water Council Board of Governors |  Dr. Muhammed Yunus (Bangladesh)
Founder, Grameen Bank |
 Ms. Myrna Cunningham Kaim (Nicaragua)
Director, Permanent Forum of the United Nations of Indigenous People (2011-2013) |  Dr. Santa Sheela Nair (India)
Former Secretary, Department of Fresh Water Ministry of Rural Development, India |
 Mr. David Boys (Canada)
Utilities Officer, Public Services International | |
| Facilitators of the online discussion | |
 Mr. Francisco Barbosa (Brazil)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Facilitator |  Annette Huber-Lee (Sweden)
Stockholm Environment Institute Facilitator |
 Ms. Blanca Jimenez Cisneiros (Mexico)
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - UNAM Facilitator | |