The Zayed Prize is organising the "Dubai International Conference on Water Resources and Integrated Management in the Third Millennium" in continuation of the international efforts to highlight and stress the importance of this vital resource and the grave consequences of present mismanagement. The general objectives of the conference and exhibition are the exchange of scientific knowledge and technology transfer. The Zayed Prize hopes that the discussion of this life-supporting issue will lead to the articulation of clear and effective mechanisms for the conservation and management of our scarce water resources. It also hopes to issue a "Dubai Declaration on Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Arid Regions” as a contribution towards highlighting this issue in the next Earth Summit, the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002.