Eduardo Mestre
Fundación Internacional del Agua

"The first thing I would highlight of the last ten years is that now we have better technical tools and now everything is done faster, although the tools are just not enough and we need to devote more time to analysis.

The second thing that has happened in this time is that we are not just focusing on issues such as engineering, technical or meteorological, or hydrological or agronomic; but we are going towards social issues and economic issues. We have found in these two spaces much to reflect upon. This has made us rethink things. Although we must be careful that the neoliberal approach requires us to all be economically efficient. It is not about that alone.

With all that has happened in the developed world, middle-income countries are those that are rising and there are between 35 and 40 countries and will be many more. These countries will stage things that are unique, different and they will make this a better world. First, because they're going to help eradicate poverty slowly with its ups and downs, of course, with its asymmetries, because none of this is going to be perfect. But we are going to help rethink the model of global development. On the one hand; to rethink the model of education; and to rethink the welfare model. It will reinvent what it means to live well "