Presently I am the Chief Engineer of the Program of Desalination and other water processes in Cedex, the Technical Department of the Ministry of Public Works and Environment of the Spanish Government, where I have been working for the last 25 years in Water Planning, Water Treatments and especially Desalination. I hold the degree of Superior Agronomist Engineer from the Polytechnical University of Madrid, and a degree in Statistics from the Complutense University of Madrid. As adviser of the Spanish Government for Desalination I have been involved in all the public desalination plants that have been built in the country in the last 15 years, with a total capacity of over 300.000 m3/day. I am President of the Spanish Desalination and Water Reuse, AEDyR, an affiliate member of IDA, as well as a member of other Spanish Water Associations, as AEAS (Spanish Association of Water Suppliers), participating in a large number of conferences, speeches, workshops, and dictate courses of desalination in collaboration with different Spanish Universities. I have been teaching desalination in other South-American countries like Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador, and have written a book on Brackish and Seawater Desalination: Reverse Osmosis, issued by Mundi-Prensa Books, Madrid. In 1997 I was the Technical Co-chairman of the IDA World Congress in Madrid, and since then I have participated in all IDA Congresses, presenting papers in San Diego and Bahrain, and co-chairing some sessions. I have been a member of the IDA Board of Directors since 1999 and previously held the position of 2nd Vice President
Email:
jamedsan@yahoo.es
