Exploring water futures together : Mekong Region Waters Dialogue : report from regional dialogue

This report documents the proceedings of the Mekong Region Waters Dialogue: Exploring Water Futures Together, held in Vientiane, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on 6 and 7 July 2006. The Dialogue was a regional multi-stakeholder platform organised to provide an opportunity for a high-quality, multi-faceted debate and learning that will contribute to improving water governance in the Mekong Region. More than just a verbatim transcription of the Dialogue, this report attempts to synthesise the proceedings into a simple, analytical narrative in order to make some cohesive sense of all the information gathered at the Dialogue. It attempts to pull together the numerous documents handed out to participants, the presentations given by different resource persons and the numerous comments made by the participants on various issues taken up at the consultation. Therefore, unless acknowledged otherwise, most of the quotes and statements included in this report were derived from those sources. Some of the PowerPoint slides from the presentations are also incorporated in the text, with minor editing, to fit the flow and layout.