In 1994, IWRN was incorporated as a dialogue platform for practioners to collaborate in water management challenges that are common to all latitudes in the region and to all users and stakeholders. Today, we have learned that the main challenge is to antecipate the impact of global change and extreme events on the availability of water, and that our focus should be on uderstanding the future to advise our contries to put water policy as a priority. 

The Inter-American Dialogues on Water Management are the barometer of the advancement in policy making and its implementation in the Americas. All the Dialogue events have left a mark for host countries to cope with their own water management challenges and keep up with the frontier of knowledge that is shared among all users, stakeholders, and from one generation to the other.