The Mar del Plata Anniversary Seminar aimed at analysing the impact that the Mar del Plata Conference in 1977 has had on improving water management, and in what way ensuing thinking has continued to change our water perception, and to address the main issues of the next 30 years. The Seminar was to build a bridge between on the one hand successes and failures of past decades, and on the other the conceptual development, efforts and strategies needed for the next thirty years, and policy options available to avert the looming water crisis.
