ABSTRACT

The Organizing Committee of the 22nd ICOLD Congress, which will take place in Barcelona between the 18th and 23rd of June 2006, assigned me the task of acting as General Reporter of the papers presented under the theme titled Role of Dams within the International Symposium on Dams in the Societies of the XXI Century, scheduled to take place on Sunday the 18th of June. I would like to express my warm thanks to the Organizing Committee for having chosen me to endeavor in such an illustrative activity.

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