This report highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement and provides proven solutions that can be adapted and replicated. In this way, it seeks to inspire policy makers to reform and modernize their water governance frameworks towards greater inclusiveness

Groundwater has provided great benefits to agriculture irrigation in semi-arid OECD countries, but its intensive use beyond recharge in certain regions has depleted resources and generated significant negative environmental externalities. The report provides a characterisation of the diversity...

Executive summary -- Public governance and water policies : an innovative multi-level approach -- Mapping institutional roles and responsibilities -- Challenges to co-ordinating water policies across levels of government -- Multi-level co-ordination of water policies -- Final considerations for...