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Our Christmas and New Year 2024 message

LIS-Water wishes all friends and partners a merry Christmas and that 2024 will be a year of personal and professional success, good health, peace and solidarity for a fairer and more sustainable world for everyone.

We can summarize our year 2023 as challenging and exciting. We continue to implement several strategic initiatives that reflect the LIS-Water concept:

  • We launched the commitment to create a global coalition for better policies and regulation of water services at the UN Conference in New York, and we have been developing efforts together with strategic partners to achieve this.
  • We concluded with great success the first phase of the RegWAS LAC program to improve public policies and regulation of water services in Latin America and the Caribbean and renewed the partnership for a second phase of development.
  • We organized two reflection and exchange retreats in Portugal that brought together regulators from Africa and Latin America from more than 20 countries.
  • We supported the Honduran regulator in defining its strengthening plan.
  • We have started a new project to strengthen the capabilities and regulatory model of the Jordanian regulator.
  • We supported the Government of Portugal in completing the sector’s new strategic plan for 2030, recently approved, and sought to mobilize the sector for its implementation.
  • We started the ProAguas Indústria program for better management of industrial water and its integration into the urban water cycle.
  • We concluded two more editions of ProAguas Açores, supporting better management of water services in this region.
  • We renewed the strategic partnership to support Sanitation and Water for All’s activities for another two years.
  • We continued our participation in the European Water4All project: water security for the planet.
  • We organized LIS-Water’s Day 2023, an experience-sharing event on best water governance practices.
  • We were distinguished with one of the PT Global Water Awards.

All this while sharing good times with partners and colleagues. In 2024 we will continue the work developed and are preparing some new features, which we will share soon.

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Welcome Message

The vision of Associação LIS-Water – Lisbon International Center for Water is to contribute to a better world through better water governance. It thus promotes more effective, efficient and resilient water supply and wastewater and rainwater management services, within the framework of sustainable development objectives.

These water services are essential for the well-being of citizens and for economic activities, with a clear impact on improving public health, environmental sustainability and mitigating risks, namely arising from climate change.. They generate benefits in terms of job creation, economic growth, increased social stability and reduced conflicts, contributing to a more developed, peaceful, equitable and healthy society.

LIS-Water’s mission is thus to reinforce public policies, regulation and management of water services for the benefit of society, integrating the best knowledge in management, economics, engineering, law, social sciences, communication and other relevant areas.

Together with its partners, the association intends to make available and produce the best and most up-to-date knowledge at an international level and to transfer it continuously to decision-makers, water professionals, industry and society.

In this way, we will make our contribution towards achieving the great goals of humanity regarding better water governance, for a better world.

The Board of Directors

Rita Brito

President of the Board of Directors

Eduardo Marques

Member of the Board of Directors

José Matos

Member of the Board of Directors

We take care of water services, essential to the well-being of society.

The members of LIS-Water represent the main players in the water sector in Portugal.

National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC)

Public institution for research and scientific and technological development in Portugal, one of the largest civil engineering laboratories in the world.

Foundation for Studies and Training in Local Authorities (FEFAL)

Non-profit entity, formed by the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities, to carry out information, training, research, technical advice, international cooperation on relevant topics for Local Authorities.

Associação das Empresas Portuguesas para o Sector do Ambiente (AEPSA)

Business association that represents and defends the collective interests of private companies that intervene in the environmental sector, acting as a dynamic player in the development of the market in the environmental sector.

Portuguese Partnership for Water (PPA)

Network of entities that aims to develop synergies and maximize potential for the development of the water sector in the world, promoting alliances and partnerships between national institutions and nations committed to the sustainable use of water and the enhancement of water resources.

Grupo Águas de Portugal (AdP)

The AdP Group is responsible for the integrated management of the urban water cycle, providing services to Municipalities, which are simultaneously shareholders of the companies managing multi-municipal systems, and directly serving the population through municipal water supply and sanitation systems.

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