Bam Aquino to keynote PWWA Int’l Conference

Youth leader and senatoriable Benigno Paulo “Bam” Aquino will be the primary guest of honor and keynote speaker in the opening of the 2nd Water Exposition and Philippines Waterworks Association ( PWWA) International Conference to be held on March 20-22, at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, Metro Manila with the theme, “Sustainability of Water Resources and Environmental Solutions to Climate Change.”

PWWA president Edgar Lopez said that International Water Association (IWA) executive director Paul Rieter will also be on hand for the twin international events organized by the PWWA in partnership with the United Business Media of Malaysia ( UBM- M) which is expected to draw in around 1,000 water sector planners, managers, professionals and technicians and hundreds of trade exhibitors in water supply and sanitation from here and abroad.

The young Aquino is the former chairman of the National Youth Commission of the Philippines (NYCP) and currently president of the TAYO Foundation and Micro Ventures Inc. He is also among the standard bearers for the Liberal Party in the coming senatorial elections. Lopez said the water sector would be eager to hear the advocacy and plans of Aquino especially in face of the challenges of climate change and the need for greater public-private partnership especially in promoting provincial water supply development.

Some of the invited local as well as foreign speakers have already confirmed their participation and they include Hugh Zhu of Dow Chemicals (China); Ginno Andres of the mechanical engineering department, Ritsumeikan University; Adrian Marsden, senior engineer, ARUP; Ronnie Encarnacion, Land Bank of the Philippines; Christopher Ilagan, Manila Water Co.; Engr. Bonifacio Magtibay, technical officer, WPRO; Lisa Kircher Lumbao, senior water and sanitation advisor, AECOM International Development Inc.; Fred Opoya of the NWSC, Uganda; Shahnoor Hasan, lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, School of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University, Bangladesh and Festo Inc.

Meanwhile, projected as the country’s premier international water supply, sanitation, industrial wastewater treatment and purification event, Water Philippines 2013 Expo will provide a veritable business platform for all industry players as well as foreign investors in the region. The expo will focus on multiple opportunities for exhibitors covering the entire water industry spectrum – everything from treatment systems to conservation and pollution prevention. The event will also provide the ultimate channel for industry professionals to be familiarized on the latest advanced technologies in these fields while being provided with the unique opportunity to meet and develop relationship with new and more vital industry contacts.

For inquiries and further information, contact the PWWA secretariat c/o Neneth Javier at tel. no. 9207145 or 9178-030124, email address: pwwamail@gmail.com or visit their website at www.pwwa.waterphl.ph.