Walter Mazitti nominated new EMWIS Steering Committee President

Walter Mazitti was nominated new Steering Committee President of EMWIS, the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector, in Athens on 21 July 2008. He succeeds Pascal Bertraud of France, which has formally handed over the Presidency of EMWIS Steering Committee to Italy.

EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries

EMWIS member countries includes all those involved in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership:

• the 27 EU member states,
• the 10 Mediterranean Partner Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey).

Source: EMWIS, 23 Jul 2008