The event, with over 250 participants from 24 countries and 28 public and private water companies, was hosted by Israeli project management company Y.A. Maof together with the Vatican’s Scholas Occurrentes and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The conference brought together researchers, spiritual leaders, governmental water supply officials and water technology companies.
A conference with an ambitious objective convened last month: the Educational Water Pact Forum’s international conference sought to promote the pact’s goal of providing a glass of clean drinking water to every child in the world. The Water Pact was born from the common vision of the Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes and Israeli innovation and project management company Y.A. Maof. The two signed the pact in Madrid, last July and created the forum in order to heed the call of the world’s most vulnerable, inspired by the ethical challenge of his holiness Pope Francis.
The unique event brought together senior representatives and researchers from the Israeli and international water industry, and government water supply officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, thanks to the extraordinary reach and commitment of Scholas Occurrentes. Among them were the heads of the municipal water company of Monterey, Mexico and Guatemala City, the head of Peru’s and Honduras’ national water companies and rectors from 20 Latin American universities. Two South American first ladies, Michelle Bolsonaro of Brazil and Fabiola Yáñez of Argentina also participated virtually in the event and expressed their support for its goal.
Dozens of speakers took part in 10 different roundtables and discussions and shared their input on the conference’s theme: “Rethinking Academic, Public, and Private Cooperation in the field of Water Challenges”.
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