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Brazilian Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Benedito Braga, was elected President of the World Water Council on Monday 19 November during its 6th General Assembly.

The 36 members of the Board of Governors unanimously chose him to shoulder this important responsibility. “Thank you for your confidence,” Mr. Braga said and promised to work closely with the elected Board and the members. “It is an important challenge you have given me.

During this mandate we will give continuity to the work initiated by my predecessor Loïc Fauchon in the political area and we should reinvigorate the Council capacity to produce new water policies worldwide,” he continued before stating his motto for the coming three years: Continuity with change and innovation.

For the coming mandate, the Council will continue to work in three strategic directions: water security for human essential needs, water sec