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Filling the gap with UNAM's Adalberto Noyola: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico's Adalberto Noyola, after two years as AIDIS president, discusses challenges in Latin American water markets and the association's work to help engineer solutions in austere times.

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Dr. Adalberto Noyola Robles is back to the classroom as an environmental engineering professor and director of UNAM's Instituto Dde Ingenieria in Mexico City.

Dr. Noyola spent much of the past two years traveling on behalf of the Asociacion Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitaria y Ambiental (AIDIS) or, in English, the Inter-American Association of Sanitary & Environmental Engineering--which has some 30,000 members in 24 chapters throughout the Americas. In October, at the XXXI Congreso Interamericano de AIDIS in Santiago, Chile, he handed off AIDIS' top job to Carlos Alberto Rosito, of Brazil's Saint-Gobain Canalizacao Ltda. But he also offered a commentary on what the organization accomplished over the prior two years.

A native of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Dr. Noyola studied engineering at the Universidad Autonoma Metropohtana-Azcapotzalco and Institut National de Sciences Apphquees in Toulouse, France,...