As part of the Barcelona Forum, sponsored by the Green Cross International, ministers, diplomats, civil society leaders, academics, managers and engineers met in a dialogue session from 31 May to 1 June 2004 to address the challenges of international water management.

Among the topics discussed were: water and solidarity; water, health and the environment; water uses and development; and a global convention on the right to water. International Green Cross President Mikhail Gorbachev addressed participants at the Water Dialogue calling for a glasnost, a transparent global advisory, to resolve water problems. More information about the Dialogue’s deliberations is available at: http://www.greencrossinternational.net/Communication/events/2004
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