The 2nd Annual Project Meeting was held in Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, at the Caza Salazar, on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th February 2004. The Project Meeting aimed at reviewing and reevaluating the Project progress thus far, and at discussing and elaborating the future steps to be taken. It was organized in parallel to the International Conference on “Water Resources Management in water stressed environments and Islands: the challenge of Ecoadaptation”. The meeting sessions were held on the 2nd (afternoon session), and the 3rd and 4th (morning sessions).

The first day was dedicated to the work undertaken so far in the Project, with emphasis on the water stress mitigation options selected in the Case Studies. The second day was dedicated to the formulation of water availability and demand scenarios, and the economic analysis that can be performed through the WSM Decision Support System. The above had as their main objective providing help to the Case Study Partners in their task of formulating demand and availability scenarios for their Case Study Regions, and should provide in the presentations easy to follow, practical examples. The third day was dedicated to the Formulation of Strategies in the following months, and to the administrative issues of the Project. The early morning session focused on the development of Strategies while the final session was used to discuss the 2nd Year Report and Deliverables, and the Project Administrative issues.