Juan Carlos Alurralde is a water resources engineer with an MSc in irrigation who is currently working as a water legislation program leader under the umbrella of a multi-institutional effort called CGIAB (Bolivian Commission for Integrated Water Management). After 32 past governmental proposals on the future water law for Bolivia, with the last one inducing a lot of conflicts, the aim of the program is to build a fair water law through active stakeholders participation. Thanks to an IDRC project, under a regional umbrella (CONDESAN), J.C. Alurralde is helping to build an Andean Water Vision, of which a draft was presented in the III World Water Forum and addressed by main Andean indigenous organizations. At the same time, he is managing an IDRC Water Rights Project in Bolivia which aims to help in building the future water rights regulation system under the general water law. Before his present position, J.C. Alurralde worked for five years as a water distribution design engineer for Canadian CIDA and for the Research and Regional Development Centre (CIDRE) project in Cochabamba, Bolivia; then for two years he was the highlands water irrigation project design leader under United Nations and Inter-American Development Bank; and still later he worked as a researcher in the IWMI (International Water Management Institute) - Pakistan as a head designer developing a Crop Based Irrigation Operations Model for large canals. His main research interests include stakeholders approaches for water legislation and water rights, with emphasis on indigenous and peasant organizations, as well as developing tools to help the future water authority to regulate these water rights.