Completed To develop and manage a dedicated information service for the Water Conservation in Agriculture (WCA) Global Water Partnership (GWP) associated programme. The service will select, review and deliver carefully targetted, quality-controlled information from an international network of partners. The information will include synthesised knowledge and capacity building information in WCA in particular, and sustainable food production in general. Task force to guide, co-ordinate and implement WCA ,infonet, service established.WCA ,infonet, service concept, collaborative strategy and workplan agreed.WCA ,infonet, service designed.Initial collection of WCA information edited and published on WCA ,infonet, service.WCA ,infonet, service demonstrated and launched on the internet. An international task force to guide the implementation of the WCA Infonet service comprising a consortium of international and regional organisations and national centres of excellence has been established. This comprised FAO (AGL), IWML, GWP, HR Wallingford, Cemagref, ILRI and USBR.An internet web page has been developed, and a dedicated URL for Infonet has been obtained at A prototype WCA infoNET system has been developed on a standard platform used by FAO called the Community Directory Service (CDS). More work will need to be done to make it a fully functional system.Modalities have been established to operate the WCA infoNET Service. Although IPTRID wll manage the system, the amount of work involved to identify, approve, acquire and load suitable information and to maintain the system will be large. The more successful the system is, the more information will be acquired. Other successful Internet information systems utilise independent peer-selected expert editors working on a voluntary basis, and it is intended that this approach should be followed. This will give the system enough human resources to encourage growth through the addition of suitable new material and to maintain its structure.A demonstration of the prototype system has been arranged during the course of the World Water Forum at The Hague, the Netherlands.