On the 12th and 13th of June of 2013, LYSA was one of the many guests of the international exhibition of water HYDROGAIA whose aim was to highlight the innovation of irrigation and the control of networks for wastewater re-use. The members of the network SWELIA, welcomed representatives of the drinking water and sanitation sectors from: Haiti, Cape Verde, Guinea Conakry, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine, Burma, Jamaica, etc. Several conferences and speeches have not only interested visitors from European countries but also those from the developing world. The conferences tackled the issues relating to water: social, economic and environmental. LYSA has displayed its knowledge and has shared its experiences with other stakeholders.
Eve de Bonadona, an engineer and representative of LYSA, discussed the interest that a products exporter has for developing countries to give up the logic of selling products in order to integrate the logic of a service delivery to reach profitability and an operating autonomy. The audience was interested in the combined role of the products exporter and the international operator. Along with Estelle Martens Wormanseder from BioUV Company, Eve de Bonadona, through the example of the pilot of Biosun already set up in Haiti, talked about the cooperation between the two companies which contribute to integrate the products sales into a sustainable development view. Therefore, LYSA accompanies the local operator, with the mutual of a potential NGO which finances it, to a long-term handling of the process and the operation. LYSA and BioUV are working on other projects in Haiti and Africa with the same objectives.
As for François-Marie PERROT, president of LYSA, he spoke of the financial solidarity; furthermore, he underlined the common destiny that needs to tie together the local operator of water and urban sanitation and an international operator like LYSA, in charge of reinforcing its abilities so that it can benefit from a profitable and independent operation. It is not a relationship where one company has the knowledge and the other is the learner, which is built in this way; on the contrary, it creates one operational team of which the members are financially associated in order to obtain the same results. The audience, sensitive to this operational logic, has highlighted the importance of an outsider, the international operator in this case LYSA, to support and develop the desire to reach the agreed results. François-Marie Perrot gave the floor to Ruth Angerville, regional operations director of the DINEPA (National Direction of Drinking Water and Sanitation of Haiti) who drew up an overview of the drinking water and sanitations issues in Haiti and was also pleased that regional companies, members of SWELIA like LYSA, FARMEX and BRL are taking action in Haiti.