More than 800 representatives from scientific, government, industry and nongovernmental backgrounds participated in this National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) conference in Washington, D.C.

on 29-30 January 2004. Over 80 experts spoke in plenary sessions and smaller topical panels on the event’s topics of Sustainable Water Management and Institutions, Water Technologies, Quality of Water and Sanitation, and Estuaries and Coastal Resources Management. In breakout sessions, attendees generated recommendations on the role of science in achieving water sustainability. The recommendations will be published in a forthcoming conference report. For more information see: http://www.ncseonline.org/NCSEconference/2004conference/