Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
We all share the vision for the need of the (reinforcement) of the role of local water players as an (essential) element to the successful implementation and sustainability of any national water information system. Without the participation of all water actors in the country, any advances made within the EMWIS system at the international and local level would be much less significant.It is (needless to mention), that a pre-requisite to information sharing and exchange of knowledge, is that information is (diffused) by those who own it and accessed by those who need it. I will not take more of your time. You have lots of important decisions to make. But please allow me before I finish my word to thank you all again for your time, and to thank Mr. Walter Mazzitti, the chairman of the EU Task force on Water & EMWIS Secretary General for coming all the way to Amman to take part in this national event, and for his deep (enthusiasm) for making this system a success story of cooperation and partnership, both at the regional and national levels. I also would like to thank Eric Mino EMWIS Technical Unit Coordinator and Jawad El-Kharraz EMWIS Technical Unit Information Manager; for their outstanding efforts to support our focal point at the Ministry, and to thank the National Focal Point team for organizing this event and for bringing and (maintaining) life to the
EMWIS in Jordan.
Lastly but not least, Special thanks for the EC, the Italian, French and Spanish governments for their continued support to the EMWIS
system since its launch in 1999.
I trust that your (deliberations) and discussions during this gathering will be fruitful and constructive.
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