““Kumamoto’s efforts to preserve groundwater are evaluated highly globally,” Kumamoto Mayor Kazufumi Onishi said at a news conference, adding that he hopes the two-day meeting will be an opportunity to show local efforts to restore the region in the aftermath of big earthquakes that hit the city in April 2016.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/22/national/kumamoto-host-asia-pacific-water-security-meeting-2020/#.XEviuS2B3Sw

– copied and pasted by Kirk