The IAP Water Programme Regional Workshop for the Americas, focused on "Bridging Water Research and Management: Enhancing Water Management Capacity in the Hemisphere", was held in Guarulhos, Brazil, from July 24 to July 28 of 2006. During 5 days, researchers and high-level water managers assembled to regionally discuss the major problems in water resources management and how can science contribute to the overcoming of these. The definition of a research agenda for the hemisphere was one of the outputs of this workshop, which was one of a set of 6 regional workshops proposed by the IAP Water Programme for the year of 2006.

Two other meetings were held as satellite events to the IAP workshop: the Second Meeting of the National Focal Points of the IANAS (InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences) Water Programme and a meeting of the ClimaSul Network, which assembles 10 laboratories in South America working to build up a database with climatologic and limnological information from the region.