The Mediterranean Union for Young Water Ambassadors (UMJAE) was created at the initiative of the president of the Water Embassy association, Mrs Jeannette Prétot, Lebanese Arab and French European, who had the desire of regaining a common culture between the Northern and Southern countries of the Mediterranean: "Because it is time to learn how to share our knowledge, our sensibilities, our techniques, without ranking them or judging them: the fi eld decides, and the fi eld is made out of human beings that one must know how to listen to".