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Water and Environmental Policy
Water policy is of interest for the ITA as it has a decisive influence in how water engineering is carried out. It is thus not an intrinsic interest. It is only important because it conditions the solution which is adopted for solving the different problems of water. This is the only matter of concern in this field.
Person responsible for this line: Enrique Cabrera Marcet
Since water is a natural resource of vital importance for society, decisions must combine the economic, social and environmental areas, the three angles of sustainability. Seeking the solution to water problems from a purely technocratic angle is - apart from being inconvenient - simply unreal. Realising this fact, much more important in countries where there is a shortage of water such as Spain, lies at the origin of ITA’s interest for water policy. Fifteen years after there started to be awareness of the water policy, with all its many implications, this has only got greater. The works and press articles vouch for this .