Caribbean environmental experts hold exchange in Cuban institutions

HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 (ACN) Caribbean specialists in environmental sanitation begin today in Havana their first exchanges with colleagues from Cuban institutions, just hours after presenting a project for the treatment of wastewater in the natural heritage, known by its acronym CARIBSAN.

Video conferences and related projects will be presented, as well as national experiences on the use of planted filters for the processing of polluting substances, Amauri de la Peña Matos, head of CARIBSAN for Cuba, informed the Cuban News Agency.

He announced that tomorrow, along with experts from the Aguas de La Habana Company, they will tour the Wastewater Treatment Plant in order to eliminate the contamination of the waters of the capital's bay and the rivers that flow into it.

The experts will also visit the Ariguanabo watershed, the 12th basin of national interest.

A framework partnership agreement will be signed on Friday, in which Lucien Saliber, president of the Martinique Water Office, explained details of this initiative, which also includes Cuba, Dominica, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe and Haiti.

CARIBSAN belongs to the European Territorial Cooperation Program and is a financing mechanism for regional development, with the support of the International Office for Water (France) for that group of Antillean islands, whose specialists recently arrived in Havana.