With the aim of raising awareness and increasing the technical understanding on the impacts of climate change on water resources, as well as giving a more coherent voice to the water community in the global debate, and providing a platform to share water-based adaptation experiences, a group of organizations has come together in the Americas in a Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change. This Dialog has already led to the production of a regional policy paper, which establishes nine related public policy recommendations. These recommendations were presented in the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16).