5+5 WSWM - Progressing in the Action Plan -8th Working Group - Valencia 18/19 September 2019

The 8th Technical Working Group of the Water Strategy in the Western Mediterranean (WSWM), will take place on 18th-19th September 2019, at the premises of the Jucar River Basin Authority, in Valencia, Spain, with the support of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). According to the 5+5 Rules of Procedure, the Ministerial Group on Water (MGW) of the 5+5 Dialogue, tasked with the supervision of the implementation of the Action Plan of the Strategy, is assisted by a Technical Working Group (WG). Following up on the previous meeting of the Technical Working Group (WG7) that took place in Murcia (Spain), the next Working Group, to be held in Valencia, will mainly focus on the stocktaking of the work accomplished so far and on discussing the Work Plan for 2019-2020, as a means to move forward with the implementation of the Action Plan. In addition the organization of a technical meeting addressing the issue of the 5+5 role in the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in  relation to the achievement of the 2020-2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United  in particular Goal 6.5  is forseen.